Plastic pipe maker donates appliances
LIVINGSTON, N.J. Plastic pipe producer J-M Manufacturing Co. has remained active in its Hurricane Katrina relief efforts one year after the devastating...
Service Master Co. sells ARS
DOWNERS GROVE, ILL. The ServiceMaster Co. announced in early October that it has completed the sale of American Residential Services, its plumbing and...
Find 'green' in green buildings
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF AUSTIN, TEXAS The other "green" in the green movement the folding kind is why construction firms should market...
Contractors lose a champion
JOHN A. SCHWEIZER FORMER CHIEF EDITOR CONTRACTOR MAGAZINE BARRINGTON, ILL. Plumbing-heat-ing-cooling contractors lost one of their most respected and...
High-efficiency toilets answer questions
JOHN KOELLER, P.E. SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR I WAS PARTICULARLY interested in CONTRACTOR's news story and Editorial in June regarding California's AB2496...
Private Nonresidential Construction Shows Vigor: AGC
Sept. 1 reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on construction employment in August and from the Census Bureau on construction spending in July "show...
A.O. Smith gives tankless units to Scout camp
ASHLAND CITY, TENN. A. O. Smith donated two ProStar tankless on-demand gas water heaters in August to the Yucca Council Boy Scouts, serving west Texas...
Renewable Energy, UA To Get ISH-NA Spotlight
Renewable energy and organized labor each will have a presence at the fourth ISH North America trade show Sept. 28-30 at Chicago's McCormick Place convention...
M.E.O.W., national security and energy supply
BY BOB MIODONSKI PUBLISHER AND EDITORIAL DIRECTOR A U.S. SENATOR locked in a tough re-election campaign has declared that this nation's energy crisis...
Radical way to close the labor gap
BY DENNIS SOWARDS QUALITY MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY Today's industry trade magazines and conferences are full of solutions to the labor shortage problem, but...
Electric radiant manufacturers form own trade association
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF MANUFACTURERS OF electric radiant heating products are forming their own trade association to work with code...
Contractors and Vendors in the News - September 2006
Contractors and Vendors in the News Contractors Limbach Facility Services in Pittsburgh has promoted Bill Eichner to chief financial officer. Eichner...
Training facility focuses on radiant skills
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR SPRINGFIELD, MO. Watts Radiant announced plans to rev up its contractor training sessions that it is dubbing "Warm U." The company...
A dizzying result
BY ADAMS HUDSON SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR Some thought it could not be done. Some thought I was a big loser dummy with no sense of well-being. OK, at least...
California lawmakers pass anti-lead bill
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF SACRAMENTO, CALIF. Nearly 40 years ago, in the movie "The Graduate," Mr. McGuire said to Benjamin Braddock, "I...
Is it a house? No, it's a sewage-treatment plant
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF ST. LOUIS Haberberger Mechanical here has completed the mechanical piping work at a membrane bio-reactor technology...
Contractors of 'utmost importance' in green buildings movement
BY H. KENT CRAIG SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR Editor's note: Paul von Paumgartten is director of energy and environ-mental affairs for the building efficiency...
Hydronics manufacturers create alliance
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF ARLINGTON, VA. Heating equipment manufacturers in August announced the formation of the Hydronics Industry Alliance,...
New PHCC president: Recruit more women plumbers
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF HARLINGEN, TEXAS Operating a trencher is one of the many skills that Jo Wagner has learned during a 40-year career...
IAPMO-ICC plumbing code talks collapse
ONTARIO, CALIF. and FALLS CHURCH, VA. The International Association of Plumbing & Mechanical officials and the International Code Council announced that...
Energy conservation seen as national security issue
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF KANSAS CITY, MO. How do government and policy makers get the public to get out of their SUVs and embrace energy...
EMCOR buys Chicago's Midwesco Services
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR NORWALK, CONN. EMCOR Group, the nation's largest mechanical contractor, announced in early August that it has acquired Midwesco...
Vary advertising message to attract, retain customers
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Fear, anger, guilt, greed, anxiety, status and loss. "If the headline of your ad touches one...
Unlicensed plumber should join PHCC, QSC
JIM STACK STACK PLUMBING KIRKLAND, WASH. I would like to respond to the young Mr. Michael Fitzpatrick's letter "Young plumber is unlicensed and proud...
In Brief
The National Center for Construction Education and Research will release a Careers in Construction Guide that showcases available opportunities to high...
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