Calendar of Industry Events
2007 June Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Los Angeles Trade Show June 9 Long Beach, Calif. New England Fuel Institute June 12-13 Boston July Quality...
Liquid Sunshine
Provide renewable energy for your customer's domestic hot water. For the majority of homes in the United States, heating domestic hot water is the second...
Commercial Contracting Conference Returns
Join the Air Conditioning Contractors of America and Contracting Business magazine for the 2007 Commercial Contracting Roundtable to be held Oct. 24-25...
Improving image starts at top of company
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. While many people talk about raising the image of the plumbing-and-heating industry, any action...
Forecast Sees Continued Growth, Rising Costs
FMI Corp. is predicting continued growth for the industry with an optimistic forecast of 2.2% increase for total construction put in place this year in...
Contractors, Union Defeat Effort to Lower Post-Katrina Plumbing Standards
Banding with several hundred other Louisiana plumbing contractors from the Mechanical Contractors Association of America and United Association members...
Pre-built Bathroom Manufacturer Triples Capacity
Eggrock, a leading U.S. maker of pre-built bathrooms for the hotel and multi-unit residential construction markets, announced that it has opened its new...
Industrial plant construction rises 33% in '07
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS Alternative fuel production is among the industries leading this year's acceleration in industrial plant construction in the United...
Giant labor shortage needs educated solution
By BOB MIODONSKI Editorial Director ALTHOUGH IT PROVIDES little comfort to this year's Giants and other contractors who face labor shortages, here's a...
Manufacturers told: Pay attention to contractors
BY BOB MIODONSKI ASHEVILLE, N.C. The aging of America's population and building stock puts contractors in such a favorable economic position that manufacturers...
Contractors and Vendors in the News
Contractors The Mechanical Contractors Association of Wisconsin elected the following slate of officers and board members at its annual membership meeting:...
In Brief
The National Fire Sprinkler Association has spent four years working to pass fire protection legislation along with the Congressional Fire Services Institute,...
EMCOR announces new energy contracts
NORWALK, CONN. EMCOR Group Inc. announced that it has begun work on a number of new energy-related projects for major utilities, companies and organizations...
MCAA will lead green building charge
BERKELEY, CALIF. I want to thank Bob Miodonski for his thoughtful and well-written Editorial on green building ("Time for you to take green building seriously,"...
Builder steps on slippery slope
GALLATIN, TENN. I just received my copy of this month's CONTRACTOR, and I was utterly shocked to read the story written by Robert Mader ("Builder tells...
All About options
By BOB MIODONSKIOF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF Demographics are a key driver in the housing market, says William Apgar, senior scholar at the Joint Center for...
Take advantage of home-improvement trends
HE LATEST REPORT from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University describes remodeling as a market in transition. The report devotes considerable...
EPA names NSF partner to certify toilets
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF ANN ARBOR, MICH. NSF International in mid-March announced its participation in a new certification program designed...
Groups Launch Backflow Assist Program
The Backflow Prevention Manufacturers Association, in conjunction with the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials Backflow Prevention...
ISH Frankfurt gets bigger, more innovative
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF FRANKFURT, GERMANY ISH Frankfurt continues to live up the the superlatives that come from being the largest plumbing-heating-cooling...
GreenMech To Sponsor Mechanical Pavilion At Ecobuild
Attendees to Ecobuild America 2007 can explore a new Green Mechanical Pavilion sponsored by the Green Mechanical Council May 16-17. The Ecobuild America...
N.J. one-man shops get insured
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF TRENTON, N.J. The New Jersey Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors announced that a change in state insurance...
Calendar of Industry Events
2007 May Comfortech RoadShow May 2 Columbus, Ohio National Fire Sprinkler Association Annual Convention May 2-5 Las Vegas Kitchen/Bath Industry Show May...
Clockwork acquires two franchises; adds $4 million in revenue
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR NASHVILLE TENN. Clockwork Home Services acquired two HVAC and plumbing franchisees operating here and in Hastings, Minn., effective...
65% Of China's Sink Manufacturers To Raise Export Prices In 2007
Sixty-five percent of China's sink and basin manufacturers plan to raise export prices in 2007, according to Global Sources' Sourcing Report: Sinks &...
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