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How often do you think about your website? If your answer is not daily or at least weekly, then I sure hope you are paying somebody to do it for you. 

In this podcast, Kara Saul Rinaldi introduces the National Home Performance Council (NHPC) and discusses a recently released white paper focused on properly developing the home-performance industry.

I frequently write about energy efficiency, and I’m sure you educate your customers on how to save energy in their homes and buildings, but do we actually practice what we preach?

In this podcast, Jon Melchi, HARDI's director of government affairs, updates us on regional standards, discusses HARDI’s recent visit to Washington, D.C., and touches on a few other issues affecting distributors.

In baseball, it doesn’t matter how well the team performs in the first eight innings if the pitching staff fails to close the game in the ninth. As a Detroit Tigers fan, I’m all too familiar with this philosophy. 

HARDI president Brian Cobble responds to a column by The NEWS' editor-in-chief Kyle Gargaro regarding the ongoing regional furnace standards lawsuit.

As I gain more and more time and experience in everything HVAC, the large scope of the industry is something that hasn’t ceased to amaze me yet.

Reader George Hummel shares his thoughts on employee background checks. 

Contractors and service technicians who work in restaurant refrigeration need to understand something: As valuable as their services are, they are — in the mindset of restaurant decision makers — only one part of a complex and often confusing equation.

Valerie Briggs, director of marketing and business development for North American Technician Excellence (NATE) discusses what’s new with the organization and explains why NATE testing and certification is so vital to the HVACR industry.