WAILEA, Hawaii — It might be hard to think about work when you’re on Maui — one of the most remote islands in the Pacific. The breezes are warm, the ocean waters are very blue and the palm trees impossibly tall. The U.S. coast is almost 2,500 miles away.
In the face of stubbornly high industry unemployment rates and a construction market that remains slow, it’s understandable why so many sheet metal and HVAC contractors are in survival mode.
LAS VEGAS — If you were a first timer attending TSI’s user group meeting, it might have helped to keep a cheat sheet to help understand all the acronyms that flew around the Planet Hollywood casino-hotel Sept. 18-21.BIM, MEP, MAP, CAD, CAM, AEC, GPS, HVAC, COBie and BD.
