Restaurants waste massive amounts of energy. Around 80 percent of all appliance energy use in restaurants is wasted due to inefficient equipment. If you’re contracted to maintain equipment at a restaurant, you have a role to play in keeping the restaurant operational. You also have a role to play in its energy efficiency.

The Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015 aims to promote benchmarking and public disclosure of energy usage for buildings. While it is presently unclear if or how the disclosure of energy usage for buildings will be accessible to the public, the HVAC industry could greatly benefit from such legislation if that is indeed the case.

While the total construction market in the United States has grown at a modest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.4 percent from 2012 to 2014, IHS found in its recent report titled the World Market for HVAC Equipment that 65.2 percent of total HVAC units sold into nonresidential buildings were retrofit sales.

The process of maintaining an HVAC system for peak efficiency is part art and part science. Thankfully, there are more and more diagnostic tools in the market today that give the advantage to science. 

According to many HVAC contractors, more than 50 percent of all air conditioner failures are the result of improper cleaning (or failure to clean at all). The following HVAC maintenance checkpoints are necessary to check in the spring so all air conditioning systems are a go once the weather warms up.

HARDI’s Marketing & Sales Focus Conference is quickly approaching. Whether you’re directly involved in your company’s marketing and sales efforts or you simply have a vested interest in those departments functioning at a high level, we recommend you meet us in Charleston for this conference.

I met an emerging leader today. His name is John Crognale, and he’s part of the APR Supply leadership team. I had dinner with John, his boss, Scott Weaver, president and CEO and Dick Foster of ZoneFirst.

Business technology is a rapidly growing industry, offering exciting possibilities to businesses. However, along with these new developments are very real security threats that must be dealt with.

Conventional, and most times correct, wisdom dictates that slotting a storage or pick area in a distribution center will yield increases in productivity and throughput. In a vast number of instances, it certainly does.

What is the cloud? Who invented it? Should I use it? Will it save me money? My customers ask me these questions each and every day.