The Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI) recently launched its annual consumer awareness campaign on the hazards of mass marketers and retailers in Canada promoting hydrocarbon refrigerant do-it-yourself (DIY) kits.
D. Brian Baker, CMS founder and instructor of Westech Energy Training Center, recently announced the graduates from the 88-hour fifth class power engineers course.
W.J. Maloney Plumbing, Heating & Cooling has been recognized with a Best of the Best Award for safety from SCF Arizona for the second consecutive year. The Phoenix plumbing, heating and cooling contractor was honored for being among the top 120 companies in a pool of nearly 25,000 businesses.
To go green wirelessly and improve the efficiency of a high-performance air conditioning system, an episode of Lifetime Network's Designing Spaces home improvement show installed Goodman’s ComfortNet™ Communicating Control in a Florida home — giving the homeowners control of indoor temperature and humidity via a smartphone.
Agentis Energy announced that Wisconsin’s We Energies is providing its commercial and industrial customers with access to Agentis’ energy efficiency software. The company said that 15,000 Wisconsin businesses now have access to the Agentis Platform, marketed by We Energies as Account Monitor.
The Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada’s (HRAI’s) manufacturers division recently reported that residential air conditioner shipments increased 16 percent in the first quarter of 2012 as compared to the first quarter of 2011.
Refrigerant Management Canada (RMC) announced that it has successfully verified and registered 170,000 ozone depleting substances (ODS)-derived registered emission reductions on the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) reductions registry.
The Radiant and Hydronics Council (RHC) of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) announced that its inaugural Hydronics Roundtable will take place Sept. 11-12, 2012, at the Providence Marriott Downtown in Providence, R.I.
The Ontario government recently announced that it is strengthening the regulation of vertical closed loop drilling for geothermal energy systems with new rules that take effect immediately under Ontario Regulation 98/12.
IKEA announced that it has plugged-in the solar energy system installed at its Detroit-area store in Canton, Mich. — what the company says is the state’s largest such solar photovoltaic (PV) array.