Think Your Kid's Stock Will Survive A Divorce?
By Irving L. Blackman Tax Authority Are you thinking of transferring stock to your kids, or does one or more of your kids already own stock in your closely...
American Standard Sold to Private Equity Firm
American Standard Cos. Inc. announced July 23 that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell the company's worldwide Bath & Kitchen products business...
Condensing Boilers Save Newspaper Energy, Space
By Steve Spaulding of Contractor's Staff DUBUQUE, IOWA The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has been publishing since 1850 to a readership in Iowa, Illinois and...
Small Hole In Valve Aids Gravity System
VIA E-MAIL I have a gravity return line in my home that I personally built (I was an upscale builder). It has worked fine for the past 10 years until...
What's Wrong With This Picture?
By Patrick Linhardt Hydronic Heating Authority THE CALL: On the line was a contractor who has been a oneman shop since his dad retired from the trade....
Study Assesses Causes of Large Contractor Failures
Encompass Services Group, Guy F. Atkinson, J.A. Jones and Dillingham Construction. These are just a few of the large and historically successful contractors...
Affordable Concept Home Gives Blueprint for Green Building
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in early June completed America's first PATH Concept Home in Omaha, Neb., featuring more than 60...
Building owners, architect state case for green construction
BY SUZAN EREM Special to Contractor's OAK BROOK, ILL. About 100 plumbing contractors and inspectors attended a green building seminar May 9 here to find...
Hotel Cutoff Date Nears for QSC Ethics and Integrity Meeting
As scandals in corporate America still make news, Quality Service Contractors will delve into Ethics and Integrity topics at its next meeting to make...
Prices of oil and metals to remain high: U.S. Chamber
By Bob Miodonski of Contractor's Staff WASHINGTON The prices of oil and metals likely will remain high for the foreseeable future, although the long-term...
Contractors and Vendors in the News
Contractors Jack L. Byrd Jr. has been named existing building sales manager at Shaw Mechanical Services, a service-based mechanical contracting company...
Make lobbying Congress part of business plan
By Bob Miodonski of Contractor's Staff ARLINGTON, VA. Lobbying members of Congress should be part of every contractor's business plan, lobbyist Michael...
'More than a moral victory' to get home sprinklers in code
By Robert P. Mader Of contractor's staff ROCHESTER, N. Y. Proponents of residential fire sprinklers are cheered by an International Code Council Code...
In Brief
Dunbar Mechanical has acquired the assets of Groskopf Engineering, a Sylvania, Ohio, mechanical systems test and balance firm. Dunbar is a full-service...
Innovative and Orthodox Synagogue uses latest technology
By Steve Spaulding Of Contractor's Staff BROOKLYN, N.Y. Kal Rotenberg, owner and chief designing engineer of Iceman Mechanical, describes the Lorimer...
Edwards Engineering comes to condo's rescue
Special to Contractor CHICAGO Imagine the basement of your home filling up with thousands of gallons of water. That's a very brief synopsis of what faced...
Sustainable buildings standard to define green buildings: ASHRAE
ATLANTA A proposed new standard that will provide minimum guidelines for green building practices is nearing completion. Applicable to new commercial...
N.J. Master Plumbers tout insurance success
Special to Contractor TRENTON, N.J. When New Jersey one-man plumbing shops buy health insurance through insurance administrator Association Master Trust,...
Contractors, union kill watered-down licensing
BATON ROUGE, LA. Banding with several hundred other Louisiana plumbing contractors from the Mechanical Contractors Association of America and United Association...
Device aims to halt backflow preventer thefts
LAKE ELSINORE, CALIF. Building developer/contractor Byron Bishop has been in the construction business for more than 30 years and is a victim of metal...
Add-ons work like magic
By Matt Michel CEO, Service Roundtable THE EASIEST WAY to boost your company's profitability is to increase add-on sales during service calls. For a profitable...
Be part of solving labor development issue
By Jo Wagner Special to Contractor THE MAY ISSUE of CONTRACTOR did a wonderful job of addressing the workforce development issues facing the p-h-c industry....
Subcontractors must stand firm against builder
TUCSON ARIZ. The news story about Lennar Corp. is outrageous ("Builder tells subs to cut prices mid-contract," March, pg. 7). We know it is commonplace...
Perfect sales call is 'golden'
NORTHBROOK, ILL. I just read Bob Miodonski's article on the perfect service call presentation and feel the content is excellent ("Perfect sales call requires...
ISH not only biggest but best
By Robert P. Mader Of Contractor's Staff ISH Frankfurt is where you go to see the absolute latest in heating and plumbing technology. It's the trade show...
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