A spate of energy legislation this past summer has resulted in U.S. House and Senate versions that will likely be negotiated into one regional mess. The crux of the matter for the HVAC industry is regional efficiency standards.

At the risk of sounding crass and capitalistic, the green movement won’t survive unless it can gain commercial success in the marketplace. In other words, if people can’t make money doing it, it’s just another fad.

Taking vacations in the summer is stressful, and sometimes downright near impossible. Chances are that you found it hard to leave the work at the office - assuming you were even able to get away for a few days.

Before you decide to make a radical change in your business approach, you may consider that switching from residential new construction to residential replacement can be like going from night to day for your company.

Protecting trademarks means threatening to sue when someone else uses your name without the appropriate ™ or ® marking. However, how is everyone supposed to know what is a trademark violation and what is not?

As the summer selling season wanes and the ebb of a new fall season is only days away, there may be a few lessons to be learned from air conditioning and heat pump shipment trends.

The common practice of trying to get a bargain at any price causes me to wonder: In our world of auctions and reverse auctions, just how cheap is too cheap? Within the HVAC business, perhaps the most notorious of offenders in the buy-it-cheap world is a common weekly event otherwise known as commercial bid day.

In the second of a series of Special Reports, leaders of three commercial manufacturing companies met with John Conrad, publisher, and Mike Murphy, editor-in-chief of The NEWS to discuss green building.

Just when some may have been thinking that discussions of unitary equipment efficiencies were going to be relegated to the back burner for a while, the heat gets turned up.

This article explores the nature of the efficiency tests required by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and raises issues (not unlike those being raised by the DOE itself) about the validity and long-term future of these test procedures.