Contractors coming to the 2006 Indoor Air Expo, being held in conjunction with the Air Conditioning Contractors of America's (ACCA's) annual convention, will get the opportunity to learn all about the new product offerings from over 150 exhibitors.
Since joining the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA), Paul Stalknecht has led the organization through a series of changes in a remarkably short period of time. The NEWS recently sat down with him to discuss what's been accomplished and what lies ahead.
Those who attend the 2006 Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) Conference & Indoor Air Expo, to be held this week (March 28-30), will have the opportunity to explore workforce issues and more in the 35-plus conference workshops.
Whatever you do, treat your productive salespeople really nice. The good ones, as contractors should know, are hard to come by. And, whether we want to admit it or not, good ones are instrumental in keeping a contractor in business.
Mark your calendars now for the third annual National Indoor Comfort Week. It's a week set aside to celebrate the men and women who keep American homes and buildings cool, warm, comfortable, healthy, and safe, and this year it will be April 23-29.
If you want to get Skip Snyder's blood boiling, bring up the topic of health care insurance. Like many - if not most - contractors, the president of Snyder Company Inc., Upper Darby, Pa., can generate more than a few choice words regarding the upward spiraling cost of premiums.
While all of the speakers at the event were certainly entertaining and dynamic, the real show stoppers at Carrier's elaborate Power 2006 Convention were the new products introduced. And, there were plenty of them.
If what has transpired over the first three months since Title 24 went into effect is the norm, business may remain as usual for contractors in California this year. And, that's what scares law-abiding HVAC contractors in California.
Numerous companies brought new duct-free air conditioning products to the 2006 International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo).