The question of how much mold remediation should be enough to hold up in court has been a deep one for all trades involved ever since the lawsuits started. Standard S520, the Mold Remediation Standard, has been developed by the Institute for Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) in order to address this question.

This article looks at three distributors, the manufacturer parts programs they work with, and how each program benefits their relationships with their dealer-customers. Part of the message is: Teamwork is critical.

It was Friday, Sept. 19, the day after Hurricane Isabel demolished much of North Carolina’s Outer Banks and damaged millions of dollars worth of property in that state, as well as Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The heavy workload for HVAC assessments and repairs would begin shortly after cleanup commenced and power returned.

More and more often, HVAC contractors and technicians are facing customers’ questions about indoor air quality (IAQ) concerns. How do you serve customers’ needs without the appearance of scaremongering? In a word, education.

Information from the upcoming Hydronics Institute I=B=R courses, now being managed by News parent company Business News Publishing, will come from an updated training manual, Residential Hydronic Heating Installation/Design Guide. Here is an excerpt from the book.

Do you need a referral to a new water treatment company? Do you want help keeping up with new water regulations? You don’t need to go any further than the Association of Water Technologies International (AWT).

In preparation of the new school year, the Stockton Borough School was recently inspected by Oreo, the Northeast’s first certified Mold Dog®, after Lab Results LLC offered the service free of charge to elementary schools in the tri-state area.

Spencer Abraham, secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), and Herb Dhaliwal, Minister of Canadian Natural Resources, met to launch their co-chaired joint task force to look into how the blackout occurred and identify ways to keep it from happening again.

Like many other editors, I have put aside the topic I was originally going to write about in favor of the Big Blackout of ’03.

Hydro-Temp manufactures Geoexchange heat pumps, specializing in applications where every penny counts, such as schools. The company's latest design has been executed specifically with schools in mind. A school constructed with this design last year in Fayette, Mo., may have resulted in a geothermal application with the lowest documented school energy consumption per square foot.