Lonnie Coleman, a mechanical contractor from Cleveland, OH, testified recently before the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR).

New York State has become the first state to ban the use of handheld cell phones while driving.

Class-action lawsuit against Centrex Homes of California.

Nortec Industries, Inc., has acquired Environmental Engineering Concepts Inc. (EEC) of Palm Springs, CA.

ARI recently adopted an Internet-based virtual meeting system to help reduce the cost of member participation in standards development and to speed up the standards process.

Many customers have problems in the same places.

The Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors — National Association (PHCC) recently participated in the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Summit on the 21st Century Workforce in Washington.

NATE will officially launch its Consumer-Contractor-Connection (C3) on August 1, 2001.

Past president of Excellence Alliance University, Wendell Bedell, has broken off from Excellence Alliance to start a commercial hvacr contracting alliance called the BSI Group.

The International Code Council (ICC) announced that it has no plans for the development of an electrical code that would duplicate the purpose and then compete with the National Electrical Code (NEC).