MCAA introduces seminars on safety, finance
ROCKVILLE, MD. The Mechanical Contractors Association of America has added a four-hour course on The Profitability of Safety to the curriculum of Job...
Clockwork Home Services plans 1,500 contractor locations
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF SARASOTA, FLA. Clockwork Home Services in early September announced its acquisition of Nashville, Tenn.-based...
Contest reveals top apprentices
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR CHICAGO Christopher Platner of Windsor, N.Y., won first place in the 2006 International Plumbing Apprentice Contest, held Sept....
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...
Action plans bring business plans to life
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF BALTIMORE Saying that 90,000 to 100,000 plumbing and HVAC contractors are in business today, consultant John LaPlant...
Add value ... by using your vendors' resources!
BY MIKE MARKOVSKY SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR IN TODAY'S BUSINESS environment, smart operators seize on every opportunity to get an edge. That means differentiating...
Contractors focus of employee classification law
BY BRIAN WASAG Of CONTRACTORs staff CHICAGO Illinois contractors who intentionally misclassify their workers as independent contractors could face $2,500...
AGC: Private nonresidential construction shows vigor
WASHINGTON Reports Sept. 1 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on construction employment in August and from the U.S. Census Bureau on construction...
Triangle Tube announces water heater recall
WASHINGTON Triangle Tube/Phase III and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in early September announced a voluntary recall of about 3,000 Delta...
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...
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