Jo Rae Wagner, the national president of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors-National Association for 2006-2007, has been honored with a resolution in the Texas Senate Chamber presented by Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr.
The Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) announced the names of members who were recently awarded RSES Certificate Member (CM) status. The recipients included two Midwest members from Illinois and Ohio.
SkillTech
Academy has completed its Train the Trainer Program in Good Refrigerant
Management Practices in Nigeria. The three 5-day workshops were conducted in
Lagos by Ron Verch of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
DualTemp Companies/Dual Temp Wisconsin Inc. has
named Thomas J. Lemar as the new Wisconsin district sales manager. Lemar will
manage the operation of DualTemp Wisconsin, one of the DualTemp Companies
located in Brookfield, Wis.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced that its 17-story administrative office building has received LEED® Gold-EB (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Existing Building) ranking from the U.S. Green Building Council. It is the first existing building in the state of New York to achieve LEED Gold.
The
Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada’s (HRAI’s) forecast for 2007 projects that shipments of commercial air
conditioning will increase by 4 percent, residential air conditioning will
increase by 1 percent, and residential furnace shipments will decrease by 1
percent over the projected 2006 figures.
The board of directors of the Chicagoland Sheet Metal Contractors Association (CSMCA) has elected Jack Baer of Air Comfort Corp. as the association's new president.
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