Quality Service Contractors (QSC), an enhanced service group of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors National Association (PHCC), will hold its “Power Meeting XVIII” in New Orleans, Feb. 20-22, 2003.

The challenge of installing gas piping in a luxury apartment complex with 12 buildings of 24 units each was recently met by a Texas plumbing contractor who used Gastite flexible corrugated stainless steel tubing for the project.

Building a 25- by 75-foot in-ground concrete swimming pool is a difficult enough task without having to put one in a former retail store of a shopping center.

S. I. Goldman Co. Inc.-Comfort Systems USA, a mechanical contracting and service business based in Longwood, Fla., has named Beth Goupil as executive assistant/administrative manager.

The State of Alabama Board of Heating and Air Conditioning Contractors has approved five programs on HVACChannel.tv for continuing education credits.

In a recent story on the business boom in President Bush’s hometown of Crawford, TX, Angela K. Brown of the Associated Press quoted a local HVAC contractor who said he has worked on the mechanical systems at the Bush ranch.

Making money was the topic of two speakers at the recent Florida Air Conditioning Contractors Association’s (FACCA’s) annual convention in Orlando.

Excellence Alliance Foundation, along with Nordyne and EAI member Peaden Air Conditioning, Panama City, FL, has awarded a $4,000 scholarship to the Tom P. Haney Technical Center in Panama City, FL.

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that the emissions generated by energy use at the USGBC’s First Annual International Green Building Conference and Exposition (in Austin, TX, November 11-15, 2002) are being offset, and the event is being certified as a Cleaner and Greener Event by Leonardo Academy.

In a press release issued in November 2002, the American Subcontractors Association (ASA) reported that it is becoming involved in a lawsuit in Tennessee regarding change orders for construction subcontractors.