Ferguson Enterprises Inc., one of the largest wholesale plumbing distributors in the United States, has acquired Davis & Warshow Inc., a leading metro New York residential and commercial plumbing supplier. Ferguson is also a major distributor of HVACR equipment.
UTC Climate, Controls & Security, which manufactures products under the Carrier, Bryant, Payne, and International Comfort Products (ICP) brand names, has announced a price increase of up to 6 percent on residential and commercial HVAC equipment.
Powerhouse Dynamics, creator of the eMonitor™ energy and asset management system, announced that it has released a new version of the eMonitor mobile app that adds new features for managers of commercial facilities as well as homeowners.
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) has launched a new education initiative — a certificate program, “Residential HVAC Design for Quality Installation,” which ACCA said offers a thorough grounding in the concepts required to properly design a residential air conditioning system.
ASHRAE has announced the latest edition of the principal book in its Datacom Series of publications, which includes four new data center classes that can enable fulltime economizers for a number of applications in many climates.
States continue to move strongly in 2012 to advance energy efficiency initiatives regardless of which political party is in control of state legislatures and governors’ offices, according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) on the release of its sixth annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.
Shipments of home energy management (HEM) systems, both standalone and networked, are forecast to rise steadily over the remainder of this decade, and the installed base of households with HEM systems will grow to more than 40 million in 2020, according to a report from Pike Research.
The North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA) has launched a new version of its 3E Plus® insulation thickness software program that performs a wide range of energy, economic, and environmental calculations to help determine cost savings through increased insulation thicknesses.
RSES announced that Ruth Ann Davis, incoming president of Women in HVACR and vice president of Williams Comfort Products, will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 RSES Annual Conference and HVACR Technology Expo.