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...
Whats on Your White Board?
By Mark Matteson When Jeff Bezos was a college student at Princeton, he slept at the Math and Computer lab, literally. As a result he enjoyed a 4.3 GPA....
Bring residential fire sprinklers into the code
By Bob Miodonski Publisher and editorial director INSTALLING FIRE SPRINKLERS is a good idea that we've advocated for a long time. We've focused our discussions...
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...
Contractors and Vendors in the News
Contractors Dunbar Mechanical, a full-service contractor based in Toledo, Ohio, has added Kevin Armstrong to its staff as a project manager/estimator...
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...
Contractor awards Plumbing Instructor of Year
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR LANSDOWNE, VA. Richard Carrington received the 2007 Plumbing Instructor of the Year award March 30 during the 2007 HVACR & Plumbing...
Condensing boilers have been in service here
By Thomas J. Legutko UTICA, N.Y. In response to Mark Eatherton's Industry Education column "A matter of thermal efficiency," (March, pg. 22), ECR International...
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...
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...
In Brief
The Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors - National Association will celebrate "Professional P-H-C Contractor Awareness Week" June 24-30. The week coincides...
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