Attendees are selected from a pool of hundreds of professional tradespeople who enter the Ridgid Experience contest annually.

Since it acquired the 182-year-old Mimosa Hall in 2017, Roswell has sought to make it a more energy-efficient facility.

The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Technology Institute will lead a research project to characterize the heat-transfer and pressure-drop performance of new low-GWP refrigerants.

The changes support RectorSeal’s vision of a single customer experience with a unified factory-direct and manufacturer representative support function, the company said.

This year’s Student Design Competition focused on the design of a new laboratory building: a large single-story building with a rooftop penthouse located in Cairo, Egypt. In the Setty Family Foundation Applied Engineering Challenge, students designed a portable IAQ health meter to detect contaminants in spaces and display the levels of different toxins.

CABA was founded in 1988. As ASHB, its mission — to empower connectivity among people, spaces, and technology to deliver a more livable, sustainable, and efficient connected world — remains unchanged.

The ACCA accreditation program involves a comprehensive review of the contractor’s professional licenses and business registration documents, plus the completion of orientation training. The contractor is also subject to third-party verification of ACCA’s Quality Contractor Elements.

“We have sales declines during two of the first three months of cooling season versus the boom times of 2022,” said Brian Loftus, macroeconomic and residential market analyst at HARDI.

Together, Bruce Supply Corp, The Kennedy Companies, and S.G. Torrice generate annualized revenues of approximately $450 million. All three acquisitions closed in the fourth quarter of the Ferguson fiscal year that ended July 31.