Marshall Putman, president/owner of Pro-Air Services Inc. of Decatur, Ala., has won the 2009 Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce, Baker-Cook-Jones Small Business Person of the Year award.
Frank H. Norton, executive vice president of EMCOR Services Northeast Inc., was awarded the D.S. O’Brien Award of Excellence at the Mechanical Service Contractors of America’s (MSCA’s) 24th Annual Educational Conference.
A new global chiller engineering and manufacturing group has been formed in Montreal with the merger of the Australian PowerPax chiller business with its North American Smardt sister company, creating the new Smardt Chiller Group.
ARC Mechanical Contractors announced that Michael R. Cook, a Jericho, Vt., resident, has been elected to the office of vice president for the Champlain Valley Chapter (Vermont) of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for 2009-10.
Representatives from Bryant Heating and Cooling announced that Wright Total Indoor Comfort, the largest residential replacement heating and air conditioning company in southern Colorado, has been selected as the first and only Bryant Factory Authorized Dealer in the entire state of Colorado.
Richard Northrup, executive vice president of the Michigan Chapter–Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) in Haslett, Mich., received the Petersen-Dunn Award for Chapter Executive of the Year at SMACNA’s 66th annual convention.
Adam Warringer, 26, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., won in the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning division in the United Association’s (UA’s) Florida apprentice competition at Miami’s Air Conditioning Technical Center, commonly known as AC Tech.
Johnstone Supply, in Waltham, Worcester, and Lowell, Mass., was awarded the Commonwealth of Massachusetts HVACR supply contract, FAC58. This contract covers all such purchases by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
American Air Distributing Inc., a wholesale-distributor of heating and air conditioning equipment, arranged the logistics for employees and contractors to participate in this year’s Salvation Army Food Drive.
Kenneth D. Goodrich, the founder of Yes! Air Conditioning and Plumbing, has established the J. Duncan Goodrich Air Conditioning Technology Endowment at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN).