Va. Home Has Ultimate Radiant, HVAC System
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff CLIFTON, VA. The owners of a custom home here, through their travels to Europe, understood the benefits of radiant...
Plumber Wins Tradesman of the Year Award
ST. LOUIS Marty McClimens, a plumber and instructor for the United Association Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562 here, has been named the winner of the...
Debate Rages On Cost of Fire Sprinkler Retrofits
Special to CONTRACTOR CHICAGO Two deadly fires that occurred in less than a week in January prove the need for federal legislation to enact laws that...
Contractors Services Becomes Success Group International
ST. LOUIS Contractors Services, the parent company of Plumbers Success International and AirTime 500, has changed its name to Success Group International,...
RPA to Host 2 RadFests
LOVELAND, COLO. The Radiant Panel Association plans to debut two regional events this spring a Great Lakes RadFest April 16-17 in Madison, Wis., and a...
Contractors 2000 Changes Name to Nexstar
WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINN. Contractors 2000 has changed its name to Nexstar, and it is changing its program content and method of delivery. The member-owned...
IPS Innovates Museum Park Condo Job in Chicago
BY STEVE SPAULDING Of CONTRACTORs staff CHICAGO While Chicagos Loop the downtown area bounded by the tracks of the citys elevated train system is famous...
New MCAA President: Education Overcomes Industry Challenges
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff LEAWOOD, KAN. The mechanical construction industry continues to be a challenging arena in which to do business,...
MasterFormat 04 to Split Plumbing and HVAC Divisions
Special to CONTRACTOR ALEXANDRIA, VA. The Construction Specifications Institute in January completed major content development for the 2004 edition of...
Industry Champion and Publisher Jeff Forker Dies
CLEVELAND Jeff Forker, former publisher of Contracting Business magazine, died at his home on Jan. 22 after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 60....
Elderly Florida Man Gets $925,000 in Scald Suit
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff WESTON, FLA. A Florida jury has awarded $925,000 to an elderly man who was scalded so badly that he had to have...
AMPAM Sells Commercial Unit
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS American Plumbing & Mechanical closed an agreement in mid-January to sell AMPAM Commercial Sherwood Mechanical to Sherwood Mechanical,...
Industry Optimism Spikes for 2004
Confidence in the economy for 2004 by members of the construction industry jumped 16% from last year, the biggest increase in 28 years in an annual survey...
Hydronic Harmony Blends 4 Factors of Comfort
By Jim Patterson THE BERKSHIRE Hills of Western Massachusetts provides designers of comfort systems with a unique opportunity to design to every worse-case...
Hydronic Heating Market Expects Moderate Growth
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff LETS BE cautious and say that the hydronic market is going to be up in the mid single digits, 5% or 6%. Then we...
Eagles, Opponents Land On Turf-Conditioned Field
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff PHILADELPHIA The old Veterans Stadium here had some of the most notorious Astroturf of any football stadium in...
8 Steps for Improving Commercial Salespeople
BY BOB MIODONSKI Of CONTRACTORs staff ORLANDO, FLA. A slow economy is only one reason why nonresidential business may be sluggish these days. Wendell...
C2000 to Host Money Masters
WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINN. - Palm Coast, Fla., will be the host city Jan. 23-24 for Money Masters, a two-day seminar on the fundamentals of running an independent...
RSES To Meet in Calgary
DES PLAINES, ILL. - The Refrigeration Service Engineers Society will hold its 67th annual conference Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 at the Westin Calgary in Calgary,...
Jeff Forker, Feb.14,1943 - Jan. 22, 2004
Jeff Forker, former publisher of Contracting Business magazine, died at his home on January, 22 2004. A three-year battle with cancer shortened a vibrant...
Out of the Past
BY CHARLES WARDELL Special to CONTRACTOR For most magazines, a 50th anniversary is a time to lean back and reflect on the past. CONTRACTOR wanted to kick...
Everybody's Part of the Team
BY ROBERT P. MADER of CONTRACTORs staff Twenty-three years ago, David Williams joined Raven Mechanical in Houston as an apprentice. Hes now senior project...
Residential to Lead Way in 2004 Plumbing Market
BY William Atkinson Special to CONTRACTOR A YEAR AGO, plumbing industry experts were holding their breath. The previous year had been good to housing,...
Contractors in the News
Russ Borst, vice president/service operations at Hurst Industries, a West Michigan Mechanical Contractors Association member, has been appointed to the...
Linc Group Frees Itself in Management Buyout
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff HOUSTON The last of the mechanical contracting businesses attached to Enron has emerged through a management buyout....
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