While Nest continues to grow in popularity, contractors across the nation are discovering ways to benefit from that success by becoming certified Nest installers, adding a new breed of tech-savvy clientele to their customer base.
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.
A look back and a look forward is how Trane is celebrating a century in the HVAC business this year. In addition to multiple employee-celebration events across the country, Trane invited members of the trade press to tour its facilities in White Bear Lake, Minn., recently.
Over two days, attendees participated in panel discussions, attended presentations, and visited roughly 125 different congressional offices to advocate for their respective organizations and industry.
Distech Controls Inc., a leader in energy management solutions, has announced that Samsung Ventures Investment Corp., Seoul, Korea has become a shareholder of Distech.
Telkonet Inc., developer of the EcoSmart energy management system, has signed a strategic partnership with Islandaire, one of the nation’s largest packaged terminal air conditioner (PTAC) manufacturers for the hospitality industry.
GE Lighting and Trane, a brand of Ingersoll Rand, have announced a new way for building owners to control the largest consumers of energy in commercial buildings — HVAC and lighting — with a combined solution for energy management.
A tradeoff has always existed between the water temperature at which hydronic heat emitters are sized and their cost. The higher the supply water temperature assumed by the designer, the smaller the required heat emitters and the lower their installed cost.