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I live and work in the Santa Fe, New Mexico, area. So, it takes something special to pull me from my home and work to willingly travel to Chicago in the midst of winter. This year, that special something was the AHR Expo.

It seems our industry is becoming “commoditized,” and we are unintentional accomplices. We’re too comfortable swapping equipment and installing silver bullets while moving away from providing true comfort.

The federal government passed the geothermal tax credits, and HVAC manufacturers are delivering state-of-the-art, energy-efficient geothermal products.

The geothermal industry had a rough year in 2017, mostly due to an unfair marketplace set up by the government. While solar and wind continued to enjoy the renewable tax credits, geothermal was left out in the cold.

Doug Dougherty has been president and CEO of the Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO) since March of 2011. In that role, he became a major player in the lobbying effort to get the federal geothermal tax credits passed.

The specialty trade contracting sector has seen revenue growth of 4.4 percent in the last five years. But with forecasts for 2018-2023 anticipating lower revenue growth of 2.5 percent, it is important that contractors look to make their operations as profitable as possible.

When you think of a race, most people think of trying to win. But there have been times when my HVACR competitors wanted to challenge me to a race, and it was a race I did not want to win; in fact, I’d go out of my way to avoid participating.

From the introduction of scroll technology to the onset of variable speed, HVACR compressors have come a long way. Unequivocally, these aren’t your grandfather’s compressors.

The HVAC industry has struggled for years with a skilled labor shortage. Various explanations for why this is happening run the gamut from lack of vocational training in high schools…

How does a tech know the a/c compressor he or she is diagnosing is actually failed and that the problem is not a crankcase heater, condenser fan, or rubbed out wire?