New age piping: a modern hydronics phenomenon
ALTHOUGH I ENJOY working with copper pipe, and I really like a good design challenge, I've come to the conclusion that a wellengineered low-loss header,...
What to do about pending labor shortages, part 2
IN THIS, THE second of three installments, we'll continue to look at the many options for replacing our dwindling workforce. Hire from the returning military...
Watts Water Technologies buys Dormont Mfg. Co.
NORTH ANDOVER, MASS. Watts Water Technologies has acquired Dormont Manufacturing Co. in a stock purchase transaction. Dormont's annual revenue for 2005...
Mid-Atlantic to see biggest industrial growth
HOUSTON Manufacturers in the Mid-Atlantic region are expected in 2006 to break ground on the largest increase in industrial project spending in the United...
Employ innovative snow-melt systems
HYDRONIC HEATING CONTRACTOR We discussed the potential of earth-linked energy as an alternative to conventionally powered snow-melt systems in my January...
What you can do about labor shortages, part 1
LIKE A NEVER-ENDING doomsday story, the pending labor shortage is theoretically lurking just on the other side of the horizon, waiting to attack and cripple...
Johnson Controls completes York acquisition
MILWAUKEE Johnson Controls in mid-December 2005 completed its acquisition of HVACR equipment and services supplier York International. Johnson Controls...
Hydronic market to grow 4% to 5%
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF IF YOU LOOK only at boiler shipment statistics from the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association, it looks as...
EMCOR launches missing children initiative
HARTFORD, CONN. Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, joined EMCOR...
EMCOR Group buys Fluidics
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR NORWALK, CONN. EMCOR Group, the country's largest mechanical contractor, announced Nov. 8 that it has acquired Fluidics, a privately...
Comfort conditioning Rocky Mountain homes
COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION is not the only growth bonanza in the Rocky Mountains. Each year more people are making the choice to build second homes there,...
'05 Hydronic Wish List
WE INTERRUPT normal programming for a special holiday message. Six years ago, I wrote my first Hydronic Christmas Wish list. Some of my wishes came true,...
Danforth creates packaged mechanical rooms for Buffalo project
BUFFALO, N.Y. John W. Danforth Co. has won a long-term contract changing out the heating systems in 77 buildings for the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority....
Higher heating bills coming this winter
WASHINGTON The Hydronics Institute Division of the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association was holding its fall meeting Oct. 12 in Absecon, N.J., just...
Eighth-grade project uncovers school mold
CHESAPEAKE, VA. What started out as an eighth-grade science experiment at a Virginia school became an alarming discovery: Turning down the school air...
Weil-McLain adds jobs, operations at new North Carolina facility
EDEN, N.C. Weil-McLain announced Sept. 27 at the grand opening of its manufacturing plant and customer training facility here that it will expand operations...
P&F Industries sells Embassy to Mestek
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. P&F Industries announced in mid-October that Embassy Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, sold substantially all its...
Figure your job costs for profitability
ONE OF THE MOST common questions that I'm asked when I present the Radiant Panel Association's Radiant Basics class is: "How much should I charge for...
Calculate flywheel mass effect's influence
p>As energy contractors, we are required to perform a basic heat loss or heat gain calculation in order to properly size the heating or cooling plant...
Recall of Gas Valves for Water Heaters
Untitled Document Robertshaw Controls Co. and The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in mid-September announced voluntary recall of Robertshaw R110...
Gama names president; Gaddis goes to NEMA
ARLINGTON, VA. GAMA Chairman Thomas F. Huntington announced in mid-August that Jack W. Klimp, a senior executive of the Phoenix House Foundation, has...
Contemporary Comfort
Police in Columbus, Ohio, turn tough job over to mechanical firms. Police work, like military duty, is filled with uncertainty. Though they can take few...
Real-time energy load calculations, Part 4
WE'VE BEEN TALKING for the last three months about how to properly size a heat source when replacing oversized cast-iron boilers that once used solid...
Laars acquisition fits Bradford White's strategy
AMBLER, PA. When Bradford White Corp. announced last month that it is buying Laars Heating Systems Co. from Water Pik Technologies, it was the culmination...
Real-time energy load calculations, Part 3
I PROMISED AT the end of last month's column (pg. 32) to tell you what to do with all the digital information you will have obtained from monitoring one...
