Home Comfort Zones Inc., developer and manufacturer of the MyTemp® room-by-room temperature control and energy management system, announced that RST Inc. of Westwood, Mass., will be the company’s manufacturer’s representative in the New England region.

ABCO Refrigeration Supply Corp. announced that its new White Plains, N.Y., branch is the home of the first authorized Mitsubishi Electric training facility in the Tri-State Area. Training by Mitsubishi personnel for City Multi® systems, as well as standard ductless Mr. Slim solutions, will be available at this location.

MDM P.C. Consulting Engineers received the ACEC New York 2008 Gold Engineering Excellence Award for the design of the heating and ventilation system for the New York City Department of Sanitation Brooklyn Community Districts 1 and 4 vehicle garage maintenance and office facilities.

Bob Murray is the proud president of R.J. Murray Co. Inc. Founded by his grandfather, passed on to his father, and now run by Bob, R.J. Murray is celebrating 75 years as a Carrier distributor. A fourth-generation of Murrays is working for the family business.

PaceControls recently helped a major retail chain cut its cooling costs 27 percent at one Midwest outlet by increasing the efficiency of its rooftop air conditioning units, generating more than an estimated $25,000 in annual energy savings for that one store.

Gov. David A. Paterson launched a new statewide, multi-agency public information education campaign called HeatSmartNY, to provide New Yorkers facing high home heating costs with the tools and assistance they need to get through this winter.

Schmidt’s Wholesale’s long-valued employee, Patty Prezioso, recently celebrated her 50th year of employment at the company. She started there in 1958, fresh after her graduation from Delaware Valley Central High School in Callacoon, N.Y.

Martin Flaherty, board member and past president of the Pennsylvania Association of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors (Pa.-PHCC), spoke on the group’s behalf at a joint public hearing of the House Labor Relations and Professional Licensure Committees on licensure of construction trades and consumer protection.

EMCOR Group announced that its Government Services unit was awarded a contract to provide facilities services at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C. The contract is for an initial period of nine months with the option of the U.S. government to extend it for four successive one-year periods.

After four years of successful Subway retailing, Kim Rico had to navigate the sometimes-costly road of refrigeration repair. After two service companies failed to fix a leak, a third company applied a sealant. One year later, the walk-in freezer is still operating at the manufacturer’s original specification pressures.