I’m starting to run out of fingers and toes to count up all the years that I have been attending the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference each summer in Kansas City, Mo. For the first few years I simply attended and watched. Then, for some crazy reason, in 2000 I was asked to be a judge.
Sometimes HVACR is a hot job in the literal sense; evidence the cover story in this issue. Our friends at the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) and Mechanical Service Contractors of America (MSCA) make a particularly consistent and strong statement among their respective memberships - safety is Job One.
Sounds like Old Man Murphy is swimming in negativity again. Did you write that editorial before or after screaming at the neighborhood kids to get off your lawn? Because you were born close to biblical times, you will perhaps be familiar with the phrase “Rome was not built in a day.”
Green buildings: How’s that working out for you? After the huge rush for energy efficiency in new and existing buildings - a laudable and needed effort - it appears that the line at the picnic is starting to thin out.
As we have tried to develop new ways to reach our prospects, one of the ways we have found successful is really a throwback to one of our most successful methods. More than ever it is time to get yourself and your sales personnel involved in the community.
When you started out in the HVAC industry, did you ever think that someday you’d be marketing your company with online photo albums and short 140-character posts? How could you imagine any of this since Facebook and Twitter didn’t even exist back then?
The NEWS is continuing to celebrate the 85th anniversary of our commitment to publishing excellence this year. We have been celebrating so far by looking at how our history syncs with that of the HVACR industry. Now we would like to learn how it syncs with your history.
Congratulations are in order for the winners of The NEWS’ eighth annual Dealer Design Awards program. Judged by contractors from the HVACR industry, the products chosen proved that they were dealer desirable. Their names will be added to a long list of competitors who ran the program’s gauntlet and emerged victorious.
HVACR contractors who deal with commercial buildings are involved in one of the most incentive laden sectors. The sector may be in somewhat of a doldrum now due to the economy, but once it bounces back it will be interesting to see how owners and decision makers factor in those incentives as they pertain to mechanical equipment.
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