Managing Mold: The Search For Solutions
BY SUSAN LINDEN MCGREEVY Special to CONTRACTOR Mold is the fastest growing risk management problem in the U.S., says a brochure from the Environmental...
Industry Pros Strike Out On Their Own
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff BROOTEN, MINN. After years of experience in the hydronics industry working for other people, eventually its time...
ISH-NA Announces New Six Track Seminar Series
ATLANTA, GA. ISH North America show organizers have announced a new multi-level structure for its popular seminar program unveiled last year at the inaugural...
Joe Ivey 'Trying to Move Quietly into the Sunset'
Special to CONTRACTOR HOUSTON Two days after Christmas, Joe Ivey found himself out of a job. Ivey, the chief executive officer of Encompass Services Corp.,...
Michigan E-Portal Allows Permits Online
LANSING, MICH. - The Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services, Bureau of Construction Codes (BCC) and Accela Inc., a developer of government...
Control Costs
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff PALM DESERT, CALIF. It has gotten to the point where its tough for an insurance company to make money, and theyre...
People in the News
Contractors The Madison Area Mechanical & Sheet Metal Contractors Association, Madison, Wisc., has elected the following slate of officers: president...
Andrews Sees Pockets of Prosperity in 2003
BY BOB MIODONSKI Of CONTRACTORs staff PALM DESERT, CALIF. With $850 billion in construction business anticipated in 2003, FMI Chairman Chip Andrews sounded...
Right Presentations Can Bring More Sales
BY BOB MIODONSKI Of CONTRACTORs staff PALM DESERT, CALIF. The biggest mistake committed by mechanical contractors in making sales presentations is this...
Congressmen Call for National Sprinkler Retrofits
Special to CONTRACTOR WASHINGTON At a press conference at the base of the Capitol March 13, U.S. Reps. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., and Curt Weldon, R-Pa., called...
Contractor Urges QSC Members to Test for Carbon Monoxide
By BOB MIODONSKI Of CONTRACTORs staff NEW ORLEANS Carbon monoxide testing may seem to be beyond the realm of work performed by plumbing contractors, but...
Milwaukee Valves' Sherman Dies
Dallas Terry Sherman, Milwaukee Valve vice president of sales passed away suddenly while attending a trade show in Dallas. Sherman joined the company...
Congress Urged to Renew Performance Contracting Law
WASHINGTON A Sempra Energy Solutions executive testifying on behalf of the Federal Performance Contracting Coalition told a Senate committee in mid-March...
To Keep Your Crew Happy, Let Them Steer the Ship
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff PALM DESERT, CALIF. Different organizations call empowering employees different things, such as servant leadership....
Scott Co. Buys Natkin
Special to CONTRACTOR SAN LEANDRO, CALIF. Scott Co. of California has bought Natkin Contracting LLC from general contractor Tutor-Saliba Corp., Sylmar,...
CSI Releases Draft Three of MasterFormat
ALEXANDRIA, VA. The Construction Specifications Institute MasterFormat Expansion Task Team on Feb. 25 released Draft Three of a revised MasterFormat document...
Tragedy Again Pushes Sprinkler Retrofits
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff WEST WARWICK, R.I. Fire sprinkler industry officials are reluctant to take advantage of tragedy such as the Feb....
Ill Plumber is Thankful for 60-hour Weeks
by William Atkinson Special to CONTRACTOR HERRIN, ILL. Bill Miller stays busy by responding to customer calls, putting in up to 12 hours a day, something...
Selling Up in Michigan
By Bob Miodonski Of CONTRACTORs staff The first lesson that the staff of Genzink Plumbings 5,500-sq.-ft. showroom in Holland, Mich., learns is never assume...
PEX Blamed for Failures
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff SEATTLE PEX tubing manufactured by Plasco Manufacturing Co., Regina, Saskatchewan, has been blamed for heating...
Innovations at AHR Expo
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff CHICAGO Despite frigid Chicago weather and a tepid U.S. economy, this years AHR Expo 2003 set all-time attendance...
PHCC Debuts PM Course
FALLS CHURCH, VA. The Educational Foundation of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors-National Association debuted its new Essentials of PHC Project...
Baker Group Finishes Job 'Just in Time'
BY STEVE SPAULDING Of CONTRACTORs staff DES MOINES, IOWA If youre Wells Fargo, a banking and financial services company working in todays fast-changing...
Masco President Ray Kennedy Dies Suddenly
TAYLOR, MICH. Raymond F. Kennedy, president and chief operating officer of Masco Corp., died at his home Feb. 4 of an apparent heart attack. Since 1996,...
New I=B=R schools debut at AHR Expo
Special to CONTRACTOR CHICAGO The Hydronics Institute Division of the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association is resurrecting its legendary I=B=R Schools...
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