Kyle Gargaro is Editorial Director & Associate Publisher of The ACHR NEWS. He can be reached at 248-244-1720 or kylegargaro@achrnews.com. Gargaro has been with The ACHR NEWS since 2004, first as Legislation Editor, then Managing Editor, and now as Editorial Director & Associate Publisher. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism.
HVAC contractors: It is time to get involved in the smart home market. If you don’t, I fear you will be looking back in three to five years, kicking yourself for passing on a golden opportunity.
Do you know someone under 40 who is doing great work in the industry? Nominate them. It doesn’t matter whether that person is a contractor, technician, teacher, distributor, employed by a manufacturer, etc.
I don’t have to tell the readers of this magazine that the HVAC industry is changing quickly. A lot of us just spent a few days at the AHR Expo in Atlanta, being introduced to a lot of the new products that are changing the industry. In all honesty, we probably could have spent an entire week looking at all the technology.
Dick Foster has been preaching the positives of zoning for years. As the owner of ZoneFirst, he has dedicated his life and career to this technology, and it has been a bit of an uphill battle.
As big cities across the U.S. continue to see a renaissance, The Whalen Co. is seeing tall rewards. As a manufacturer of HVAC vertical stack riser heat-exchanger fan coil units and water-source heat pumps, Whalen usually gets business when construction goes vertical.