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Kenneth “Kenny” Bernhard, CEO of Bernhard Mechanical, announced that he will retire at the end of the year. Bernhard will continue to serve as a board member and shareholder of Bernhard LLC and as a consultant to Bernhard Mechanical through 2019 when the company will celebrate its 100 year anniversary.

ECR International, an HVAC manufacturer offering products under the brand names Dunkirk, Utica Boilers, Olsen, Airco, Pennco, RetroAire, Argo, and EMI, announced that its shareholders have approved the sale of the company to BDR Thermea, a Dutch heating products group headquartered in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

Currently, 9.4 million women-owned businesses are operating in the U.S. in 2015 — employing more than 7.9 million people and generating nearly $1.5 trillion in revenue.

Training is for dogs, dancing bears, and little kids who crap in their pants. Is that the way we think of apprentices? Maybe that’s the real problem.

Building automation has become a significant application for the broader Internet of Things (IoT) development, where millions of devices are already communicating with one another, and billions more machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are expected in coming years. 

When Hampton by Hilton approached the building’s then owners with hopes of transforming it into a hotel, the hotel chain was met with the daunting task of undergoing a full renovation of the historic space that had been unoccupied since 2004. 

Industry figures are estimates that are derived from the best available figures supplied by a sample of AHRI member companies.
 

SPX Corp. announced an agreement for the sale of its Dry Cooling business to Paharpur Cooling Towers Limited. The purchase price is estimated to be approximately $48 million, subject to adjustments for working capital at closing.

Comfort Systems USA Inc., a leading provider of commercial, industrial, and institutional HVAC services, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining 40 percent noncontrolling interest in Environmental Air Systems (EAS), headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

A total of 4,679 workers were killed on the job in 2014 — that’s an average of 13 deaths every day — according to the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA).