William L. Niehoff Jr., of Fresh Aire Test & Balance, Lemont, Ill., was installed as president of the Chicagoland Sheet Metal Contractors Association (CSMCA) at the association's Installation of Officers Dinner.
Yankee Gas Services Co., Berlin, Conn., has assured its customers that there will be "sufficient natural gas supplies this winter to meet their needs."
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's Executive Order 05-09 promotes and preserves fair competition, according to a statement from Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) 2005 National Chairman Gary Roden. He said the order advances the economic, non-discriminatory, and efficient administration and completion of state-funded construction projects while maintaining neutrality toward the union or non-union status of contractors.
On Oct. 6, 2005 the Canadian federal government announced a series of measures that will address concerns about the impact of high energy costs. Included in these measures is the new High Efficiency Home Heating System Cost Relief Program.
Frank Fitzgerald, 40, an HVAC installer from Stratford, Conn., was named Dickies 2005 winner of the 14th Annual American Worker of the Year Award for Connecticut.
Nancy Jones, CAE, executive director of the Associated Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Texas, was named 2005 Association Executives Council Spectrum Award winner during the recent Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors-National Association (PHCC) convention in Orlando, Fla.
Air Comfort Corp., an HVAC company based in Broadview, Ill., has reinstituted a training program originally coordinated by the company's predecessors in the 1970s.
The proposed 9th amendment to the federal energy efficiency act will implement a minimum 13 SEER level in Canada for central air conditioners (including mini-splits) and heat pumps.