According to HVAC Excellence, the Louisiana Community and Technical College System standardized its HVACR curriculum and has started a process of accrediting its programs.
Milliken Chemical has received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its silver-based antimicrobial product, Antimicrobial AlphaSan®, for use in HVAC units and related materials.
According to SMACNA, statistics in the 2002 Annual Labor Report, issued in February, indicate that while man-hours decreased from 2001 to 2002 in more than three-quarters of responding chapters, man-hours still remain relatively high compared to five years ago.
Employers who expose workers to serious safety and health hazards and who continue to defy worker safety and health regulations will be subject to an enhanced enforcement policy, which was unveiled by Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao.
The Chiller Systems Group held its spring meeting on March 6-7, hosted by Chiller Services Inc. Forty-five representatives attended the meeting from contractors all over the U.S. and Canada.
Thirty-two distributors and distributor salespeople from across the United States participated in a Nordyne Elite Training (NET) refresher course for Maytag HVAC distributors and their sales staffs live over the Internet.
Encompass Services Corporation has taken a step towards completion of its restructuring by filing its Joint Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)/Construction Specifications Canada MasterFormat™ Expansion Task Team (MFETT) recently released the third draft of a revised MasterFormat document.