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Greenstar Home Services, a privately held, multi-state provider of HVAC and plumbing services, has acquired A-Ames Plumbing and HVAC, based in Garden Grove, California. This acquisition marks the seventh company Greenstar has acquired in the past three years.

Sefaira, a supplier of software for high-performance building design, has announced a new product for HVAC design engineers that it says enables unprecedented collaboration between architects and HVAC designers from the earliest stages of design, bringing together performance analysis and building information modeling (BIM).

The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) has announced two new certification programs: Central Station Air-handling Unit Casings (AHUC) and Liquid-to-Liquid Brazed & Fusion Bonded Plate Heat Exchangers (LLBF).

Frost & Sullivan has recognized Armstrong Fluid Technology with its 2014 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Leadership. Frost & Sullivan said Armstrong’s solution portfolio enables it to deliver equipment, as well as complete HVAC systems with fully integrated controls, to provide end-to-end fluid solutions.

A new book, Internet Marketing for Plumbing & HVAC Contractors: How to Triple Your Sales by Getting Your Internet Marketing Right, by Josh Nelson, is written specifically for contractors and walks them through each step of the online marketing process.

Renewable energy is among the top emerging technologies being considered by data center owners to help address power and cooling costs, according to a Mortenson survey of corporate data center executives, data center developers and operators, and information technology providers.

Danfoss has announced that Daikin Applied is the winner of its fifth annual EnVisioneer of the Year award competition. Daikin Applied is using Danfoss Turbocor variable speed, oil-free, magnetic bearing centrifugal compressors in its water-cooled Magnitude® chillers to help building owners reduce electricity consumption.

Tankless water heater manufacturer Rinnai announced that it has begun assembly of its Commercial Tankless Rack System (TRS) at Rinnai America headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia.

Pipe Restoration Technologies LLC (PRT), makers of the ePIPE system for restoring pipes in-place, announced that it has been granted its 12th United States patent, No. 8887660, for barrier coating corrosion control methods and systems.

At the 2014 Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) Annual Conference in San Antonio, North American Technician Excellence (NATE) recognized 10 HARDI member companies for their outstanding efforts to promote NATE technician certification in the HVACR industry.