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Michael McConnell is the former editor of Snips. Michael had been with BNP Media since April 2000. Prior to joining BNP, he was an award-winning staff writer with Heritage Newspapers, a chain of suburban weeklies covering the region south and west of Detroit. Since becoming editor in 2003, he has maintained the publication’s focus on the people of the sheet metal and HVAC industries and extended it to the Internet through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Google Plus.

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SPIDA hears group assessment from speaker at Fla. meeting

Michael McConnell

August 1, 2012

SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. - The Spiral Duct Manufacturers Association heard some tough talk about their association, opportunities for the group and the acoustic properties of sheet metal during their annual meeting here.

Speakers lay out sheet metal career options at biennial Partners conference

Michael McConnell

July 1, 2012

LAS VEGAS - The construction industry has suffered more than most during the recession of the late 2000s.

SMACNA, union use Detroit conference to showcase the ‘green' side of sheet metal

Michael McConnell

July 1, 2012

DETROIT - Battered by the tough Michigan economy of the last five years, Sheet Metal Workers union Local 80 has suffered with 30 percent-plus unemployment among members.

Michael McConnell

June 19, 2012

The ductwork Karo Sheet Metal needed to install at the New York School of Interior Design’s new 20,000-square-foot graduate center was different, especially for a nonmedical facility.

Michael McConnell

June 1, 2012

TORONTO - Even if record-warm March temperatures may have had some attendees thinking about backyard BBQs and not HVAC and plumbing, attendance held steady at CMX-CIPHEX 2012.

Michael McConnell

May 1, 2012

ORLANDO, Fla. - Many roofing contractors are still waiting for an economic rebound, but for organizers of the International Roofing Expo, things are already looking up.

Michael McConnell

April 1, 2012

The floods that hit Iowa in June 2008 are sometimes called “Iowa’s Katrina.” While they didn’t have the loss of life that accompanied that Category 5 hurricane which struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, Iowa’s flooding still caused an estimated $64 billion in damage.

Michael McConnell

February 1, 2012

CHICAGO - Recession? What recession? Not at Fabtech. The Nov. 14-17, 2011, metal forming and fabrication event at the massive McCormick Place convention center here broke all the records organizers have used to track the show: trade show attendance, seminar enrollment and exhibit space.

Michael McConnell

February 1, 2012

ATLANTA - Anyone looking for signs that the U.S. construction industry is starting to recover may want to check out the attendance statistics from last year’s Metalcon.

Michael McConnell

January 1, 2012

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Getting the sheet metal industry out of its years-long funk will take new ways of thinking and working, according to the speakers SMACNA booked for its Sept. 25-28 annual convention.

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