The Service Roundtable, a private contractor group, recorded more than 3 million Web site page loads as of Dec. 6, 2005.

TAC presented the city of Dallas with an incentive payment of more than $525,000, rewarding the city for reducing electricity demand, according to statement released by the company. The energy reduction is the result of a $9 million performance contract TAC completed for the city that included the design and construction of energy conservation-related projects at six city facilities.

The government of Pitt County, N.C., expects to save more than $3.7 million in energy and building operation costs under a 12-year performance contract with Siemens Building Technologies Inc.

Middleton Heat and Air, Little Rock, Ark., was recently named "Best of the Best" heating and air conditioning company by the readership of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's Executive Order 05-09 promotes and preserves fair competition, according to a statement from Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) 2005 National Chairman Gary Roden. He said the order advances the economic, non-discriminatory, and efficient administration and completion of state-funded construction projects while maintaining neutrality toward the union or non-union status of contractors.

Nancy Jones, CAE, executive director of the Associated Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Texas, was named 2005 Association Executives Council Spectrum Award winner during the recent Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors-National Association (PHCC) convention in Orlando, Fla.

Bryan Stansell, president and owner of Stamar Inc., Atlanta, was named the 2005 Trane/PHCC HVAC Contractor of the Year at the recent annual convention of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors-National Association (PHCC).

While most sheet metal work is for the HVAC market, a story in the San Antonio Express-News showed that such training could also result in skills important in building parts for deer feeders, tractors, countertops, and jalapeno cookers.

At the Texas Industrial Vocational Association (TIVA) conference in Corpus Christi, HVACR educators were offered an opportunity to begin the process of taking their credentialing exams.

Eighteen Texas students have been awarded $17,000 in scholarships from the Associated Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Texas (APHCC-Texas) Charitable and Educational Foundation.