There’s still time to get in on the June drawing for a Fieldpiece LT-1A digital meter. Submit your diagnosis to the troubleshooting situation — featured in the Dec. 15 issue of The NEWS — involving an electric furnace and a customer’s complaint of not enough heat.

Sporlan felt it could fill an underserved part of the HVAC marketplace with its new training center in Washington, Missouri. The facility is designed for technical training on today’s modern refrigeration systems by offering both classroom and hands-on activities.

A thorough understanding of sheet metal work is necessary to help attract prospective workers, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the number of sheet metal workers to grow 15 percent by the year 2022 — faster than the national average across all occupations. 

The 24,037-square-foot facility, which houses classrooms and meeting space for hydronic training and educational purposes, achieved 62 points out of a total of 79 possible points for LEED Gold.

Whatever the ratio between journeymen and apprentices might be, and however that ratio is determined, the one constant is the need for adequate training for all HVACR service personnel working on a job site. 

Keynote speakers for the HVACR & Mechanical Conference for Education Professionals have been announced today, and they will be featured at the event set for March 9-11, 2015, at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights, Maryland.

Prison officials credit the Virginia Department of Corrections’ (VADOC) emphasis on reentry for the recent success of two former offenders who found jobs within days of their release. Effective programming helped these men find HVAC jobs in the Tidewater area within days, nine and 13, respectively, of their release.