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Duct products maker Carlisle HVAC has been given a Silver Gaia Award by the organizers of the Big 5 International Building and Construction Show.

The software will be demonstrated Jan. 23-25 at booth No. 3142 in the north hall of McCormick Place convention center in Chicago.

The “rational psychrometric formulae” - sometimes called the “Magna Carta of Psychrometrics” according to Carrier Corp. - helps figure out the right temperature-humidity combinations that make people comfortable year round.

Products to be displayed at Standex’s booth include condensate overflow switches and fluid level and flow sensors. 

The 50-year-old passed away Dec. 3 from lung cancer.

The Emmy-nominated "Undercover Boss" takes company executives and puts them, disguised, on the front lines of their organizations. Dina Dwyer-Owens, chairwoman and CEO of franchise company the Dwyer Group, will appear Jan. 22. 

Two products from Lochnivar LLC were given Innovation Awards from the organizers of the 2012 AHR Expo.

Called the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act, the bill would override a recent move by the National Labor Relations Board to speed up union-organizing elections.

The construction industry saw tough times in 2011, but it could have been far worse.

HVACR average distributor sales for October 2011 were up 3.4 percent from the same month last year, according to the Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International.