MILWAUKEE - A.O. Smith Corp. announced that it has reached an agreement with the two majority shareholders of GSW Inc. on A.O. Smith's pending acquisition of the Canadian-based company. The

DALLAS - Home Solutions of America Inc., a provider of recovery, restoration, and rebuilding/remodeling services, announced that it has appointed Rick J. O'Brien to the positions of president and chief

ARLINGTON, Va. - For the fourth consecutive year, HVAC manufacturers shipped a record number of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps, announced the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), exceeding

NORTHBROOK, Ill. - Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) has opened a new 16,000-square-foot state-of-the-art testing facility in the metro-Dallas area dedicated to energy efficiency testing of heat pumps, air conditioning equipment,

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Autodesk Inc. announced that it has acquired the majority of Applied Spatial Technologies' assets, including its flagship software application for facilities management, FMDesktop. This acquisition signals

ATLANTA - A new eLearning system has been launched by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and Elsevier. According to ASHRAE, the system provides complete learning

WASHINGTON - Prices for oil, gasoline, and natural gas are expected to remain high through 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Energy Information Administration (EIA).The EIA's latest

LANSDOWNE, Va. - Twenty-seven business owners, operations managers, project managers, estimators, and superintendents spent four days at the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors-National Association (PHCC) Educational Foundation's January offering of the Essentials of

INDIANAPOLIS - Bryant Heating & Cooling Systems will reveal its new product line at the Bryant 2006 National Dealer Convention, Feb. 28-March 3 in Las Vegas. More than 3,000 Bryant

NORMAN, Okla. - The Unitary Products Group of York - a Johnson Controls Co. - has introduced a DVD and consumer brochure designed to help York customers understand the transition