Items Tagged with 'air conditioning market'

Find out how the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act could impact the HVAC industry, from streamlining projects to smart tech adoption.

In the early 1950s, manufacturers and home builders came together to create the Air Conditioned Village in Austin, Texas.

We dive into the ACHR NEWS archives to explore the a/c boom of the 1950s, where room unit shipments hit 1 million in 1953. 

The most recent Energy Information Administration figures show that 88% of the housing units in the U.S. in 2020 had some form of air-conditioning, up from 85% in 2009.

The latest shipment report from AHRI shows a sluggish start to 2026, with everything from electrification pushes to refrigerant transitions set to affect the coming year. 

Anecdotes from the era tell of paper that warped, ink that smudged and people who nearly passed out because of stifling heat at the Capitol. The arrival of central a/c changed all that. 

The a/c and heat pump shipment numbers reflect some of the headwinds industry leaders discussed during last month’s Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference: low consumer demand, high interest rates, tariffs on imported products and materials, and the continuing fallout from the refrigerant transition.

Europe’s resistance to air conditioning isn’t just cultural -- it’s become deadly. Tens of thousands of Europeans die from heat each year, and outdated policies aren’t helping.