Taco Expands FloPro Factory Training for 2010
Taco’s FloPro Factory Training offers a broad range of professional development opportunities for plumbing and heating contractors....
2009 Edition of the Crane Technical Paper No. 410 (TP-410) Ships Today
Engineered Software, Inc. today announced the official release and shipment of the new 2009 edition of Crane’s Technical Paper No. 410....
Taco Expands FloPro Factory Training for 2010
Taco is now offering more professional development opportunities for plumbing and heating contractors. ...
Free Classified Ad Website
There aren’t too many things that are free these days but the hydronics industry has recently gained a free service, www.HydronicsOnline.com....
Bell & Gossett's Little Red Schoolhouse announces 1st quarter 2010 schedule
Bell Gossett, a leader in education for the hydronic heating and plumbing industries, has announced its training course schedule for the first quarter of 2010. ...
Hydronicahh everything in modulation
As we head into the chilly portions of our Colorado fall season, and eventually winter, I look forward to performing operating tests on the hydronic and...
Adventures at Hydronicahh Part 6
Near the end of last month's column, I mentioned one of the means of providing hydronic heat to the dwelling a five-stage ground source heat pump. This...
Denver’s Applewood PH&E wins BBB award
Applewood Plumbing Heating & Electric (www.ApplewoodFixIt.com) was honored as the 2009 Large Business winner in the Denver Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Trust....
Grundfos Upgrade Program Offers Unprecedented Savings for Converting to Higher Efficiency Pumps
Grundfos Pumps has launched an initiative to replace old, low-efficiency pumps with new, higher-efficiency pumps, providing optimized performance as well as energy and operating cost savings....
Adventures at Hydronicahh Part 5
I promised to cover the hardware details of the numerous heat sources that will be incorporated into Hydronicahh in this series of articles. I will start...
Dormont Manufactures their 100,000,000th Gas Connector
On September 15th, 2009, 180 employees at Dormont Manufacturing celebrated the manufacture of their 100,000,000th gas connector....
Adventures at Hydronicahh Part 4
I have often said that a radiant wall will deliver more radiant energy to a human body than will a horizontal ceiling or floor surface. Think of absorbing...
Adventures at Hydronicahh Part 3
Since radiant comfort can be delivered from any large surface area, I decided that the primary method of delivery in the existing portion of the structure...
Former A. O. Smith employee to continue play on 2009 PGA Tour
A. O. Smith recently announced its contract extension through 2011 with Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey, who will be sporting the water heater manufacturer's logo on his hat and golf bag. ...
Climate Right Systems provides pre-assembled equipment packages
Santa Cruz, Calif. Climate Right Systems, a newly formed company spun off of the design and building construction operations of contractor Pacific Solar...
Antebellum estate gets hydronic makeover
Alexandria, Va. — An Antebellum estate located here received a hydronic makeover thanks to Foley Mechanical, a mechanical contracting firm located here that specializes in hydronic and HVAC systems....
Dick Homquist to retire from Bryan Steam
Dick Holmquist will be retiring as National Sales and Marketing Manager from Bryan Steam LLC, Peru, IN on June 30, 2009. Holmquist has served in sales capacities within the industrial heating industry for 43 years. ...
Servicing high efficiency boilers Part 2
This month's column touches on an aspect of servicing high efficiency modcon boilers that many contractors don't think about the paperwork associated...
ITT to buy Laing GmbH
ITT Corp. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Laing GmbH of Germany, a privately held leading producer of energy-efficient circulator pumps primarily used in residential and commercial plumbing and HVAC systems. ...
Missouri governor visits Watts Radiant
SPRINGFIELD, MO. — The newly-elected governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, recently visited Watts Radiant’s 143,000-sq.ft. manufacturing and office facility here, supporting his program of promoting sustainable manufacturing in the state. ...
RPA hosts charity fundraisers
LOVELAND, COLO. — Two separate charity fundraising events will be held during the Radiant Panel Association’s REXperience conference and trade show in Utica, N.Y., May 27-29. ...
Propell Energy presents biomass conference
NASHUA, N.H. — Propell Energy, a provider of commercial and municipal wood pellet boiler systems, and a group of 20 biomass fuels industry representatives, retail leaders and interested parties, presented and hosted the Heating the Northeast with Renewable Biomass Conference, April 29-30, here....
Viega Honors Nine Sales People with Top Gun Awards
On Saturday, April 18, more than 200 Viega employees from across America, Canada and Mexico attended the company’s Top Gun Awards dinner as a part of its National Sales Meeting....
Hydronic heating in Antarctica
Touring the heating systems at McMurdo Station in Antarctica with Mike Blachut, veteran HVACR technician, as my guide is like touring Disneyland with...
Alternative energy interfaces - Part 2
In last month's column, we began to address some of the common basic piping violations on primary/secondary interfaces between alternative energy systems...
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