ROCKVILLE, MD — The Mechanical Contractors Association of American (MCAA) has announced that it will begin offering a seminar examining the cumulative effects of change orders on labor productivity for
ARLINGTON, VA — Summer temperatures are rising into the 90s with Florida-like weather blanketing the South and parts of the East as hot air parches much of the West, prompting
ARLINGTON, VA — According to Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) statistics, combined U.S. factory shipments of 847,716 central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps in May continued to rise, showing
ODESSA, FL — Global Energy Group Inc. has introduced a new line of rooftop units that it says establishes a new standard in energy efficiency for air-cooled packaged air conditioning
The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine inaugurated a study shortly after Sept. 11 to provide recommendations for combating terrorist threats. The report, Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism, is now available.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Home Builders Care Victims’ Relief Fund has closed its books after distributing almost $10 million donated by the nation’s home building industry to victims of the
WASHINGTON, DC — The Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association (SMWIA) has formally announced its support for the “United States Toxic Mold Safety & Protection Act” (HR 5040), a new bill
Steve Easley, owner of S.C. Easley and Associates, a construction consulting firm, and a former professor of building construction and contracting at Purdue University, speaks and writes a lot about the subject of indoor air quality (IAQ). You want answers? Here are a few from Easley to some basic questions on this increasingly important subject.
WASHINGTON, DC — Indicating that the housing market continues to provide strength to the U.S. economy, sales of new single-family homes increased 8.1% to a record high seasonally adjusted annual
ATLANTA, GA — Southern Company Energy Solutions, a unit of the Southern Company, and Atlantic Station, a new residential/commercial development, have partnered to create one of the Southeast’s largest district
