The South Carolina Building Performance Association (SCBPA) is a new 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade association being formed to represent the companies and professionals working in South Carolina’s home and building performance industry.

Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning centers throughout Florida are bringing back a program to benefit Toys for Tots. Through Dec. 15, the six centers will give a free precision tune-up (value $99) for a home’s heating and cooling system in exchange for a new, unwrapped toy.

Encycle has announced its new SwarmStat™ service and its collaboration with Honeywell as a Total Connect Comfort partner. Encycle is Honeywell’s first smart thermostat partner to focus exclusively on solutions for commercial and industrial customers.

The National Environmental Balancing Bureau (NEBB) will hold its 2017 Annual Conference March 30-April 1, 2017, at Hilton Lake Buena Vista at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. The theme of the conference is “The Science of Buildings: Operations, Performance and Testing.”

AAF Europe has acquired Dinair Group AB, one of Sweden’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of air filters. Dinair, established in 1982, emphasizes balanced filtration solutions and has a history of developing its own products.

U.S. shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps totaled 583,531 units in September 2016, up 19.5 percent from 488,464 units shipped in September 2015, according to the latest statistics from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI).

The CleanTech Alliance named McKinstry winner of its CleanTech Achievement Award for 2016. The award was presented at the CleanTech Alliance Annual Meeting in front of more than 300 business executives, investors, and policymakers from across the Northwest region.

A federal Texas judge has issued a nationwide injunction against the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule, stating that the administration overstepped its authority by raising the salary cap from $455 a week to $921 a week or $47,892 a year.