When it comes to monitors and test instruments, it is rather amazing to see the vast improvements recorded in almost every phase of instrumentation over the past few years. Nowhere is it more pronounced and eye opening than at the annual AHR Expo.
If it can be put on wheels, moved around easily, and/or just moved around - period - there will be changes made in the nonducted and portable cooling-heating world. Proof is in walking the aisles of the International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo).
uctless cooling and heating products and systems continue to mature, improve, and gain momentum in the United States. Proof was in the number of foreign-based vendors that exhibited at the AHR) Expo.
The title of their session was “Recruiting, Interviewing, Hiring & Compensating Technicians.” Drew Cameron, president of HVAC Sellutions, and Joe Crisara, of ContractorSelling.com, combined to give attendees of the Masters of the Game II conference plenty to swallow regarding the ins and outs of techs.
Plant a tape recorder near any one of Greiner Heating & Air Conditioning’s 23 employees. Each will discuss only one subject: Patricia Greiner. And, it’s all good. Yes, each speaks highly about their boss.
“Sometimes I don’t even know what day it is,” confessed Ken Summers, vice president of Comfort Institute, who, on this particular day, was at the St. Louis (Mo.) Airport Marriott, to teach yet another seminar, this one titled, “How Today’s Contractors are Dealing With Comfort, IAQ, and Humidity … And Increasing Profits While Doing it.”
The NEWS takes a look at attending trade or vo-tech schools nowadays. This first report looks at Brad Bartz, a first-year HVACR student, his background, why he decided to enroll in the Construction Division at a trade school, what he plans to get out of Ranken and his education, his future plans, and more.
If Hollywood can make sequels, HVAC Learning Solutions can do the same. Just try and stop Michael Moore. We’re not talking about the documentary filmmaker, but rather the Michael Moore who is director of training and business development for HVAC Learning Solutions.
With membership increasing and its postunification process in full motion, the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) certainly has the numbers - and more. At its last annual meeting and exposition, re-elected IAQA president Bob Baker reported that over 5,000 are now in the IAQA fold.