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SMACNA and the Sheet Metal Workers union sent a joint letter to President Barack Obama thanking him for an Aug. 30 executive order on industrial energy efficiency. 

The Building Performance Institute has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute as a certifying organization.

The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Industry Fund of the United States (SMACN-IFUS) annual contributors’ meeting will take place during the group’s annual convention next month. 

HVAC supplier G.W. Berkheimer will allow North American Technician Excellence to use its facilities for certification testing this month. 

Emerson Climate Technologies is celebrating its 100-millionth Copeland Scroll compressor. The company is marking the milestone with a program designed to celebrate compressor technology and the people who make them.

Daikin Industries Ltd. will buy HVAC maker Goodman Global Group for $3.7 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. 

ACCA members are staying upbeat business as head into fall. For August, the Air Conditioning Contractors of America’s Contractor Comfort Index was 60. 

Viewers of this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., may see a debate over an issue potentially more volatile than politics: room temperature.