In Brief
The 16th Annual Construction Safety Conference and Expo will be held April 4 - 6 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. It is the...
New MCAA president wants 'to turn our ship around'
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF BELLWOOD, ILL. Michael Cullinane is single-mindedly devoted to union contractors, to the Mechanical Contractors...
Latter-day wonder: hydronic job at LDS Church
BY STEVE SPAULDING OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF DENVER In case you haven't been to Utah lately, the Mormons have been busy. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Apprenticeships need support of entire industry
(Fifth in a five-part series) THE PLUMBING industry needs wholesalers and manufacturers as well as contractors to combat a critical shortage of skilled...
Burger retires as Roto-Rooter president
WEST DES MOINES, IOWA After a 26-year career with Roto-Rooter Corp., Gary Burger retired as company president March 1. Burger joined Roto-Rooter in 1980,...
Industry gets closer to uniform standard for toilets
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF THE PLUMBING industry seems to be getting closer to agreement on how toilets should really perform with the publication...
Challenge Air to get $20,000 from QSC
ST. PETE BEACH, FLA. Quality Service Contractors raised $20,000 for Challenge Air, an aviation program that benefits physically challenged children and...
AHR innovations not all hot air
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF CHICAGO More than 57,000 HVACR professionals filled the aisles and exhibit booths Jan. 23-25 at the 76th AHR...
Retiring from business can get complicated
JOHN GARVELINK COMMERCIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. I enjoyed and appreciated John Zink's Industry Education column in the January issue...
Chinese stainless steel fittings flood market: U.S. firms
WASHINGTON U.S. producers of stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings in mid-February pointed to increasing volumes of low-priced imports from China as...
Build your marketing momentum
8 ways that Basnett Plumbing and Heating generates leads and retains customers. BY ADAMS HUDSON SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR Second in a series Why do they even...
Armand Antunez, Coast Foundry owner, 84
POMONA, CALIF. Armand Antunez, owner of Coast Foundry and Manu-facturing Co. here, died Dec. 30, 2005. He was 84. At the beginning of his professional...
Terry Bihun, A.O. Smith vice president, 64
BRENTWOOD, TENN. Terry Allen Bihun, vice president/business development and national accounts for A.O. Smith Water Products Co., died Nov. 1, 2005, at...
RoadShow reveals secrets of sales differentiation
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF DALLAS Industry consultant Drew Cameron unveiled the four secrets of sales differentiation Feb. 1 during the Comfortech...
Battle cry for licensed plumbers
BY GEORGIAN LUSSIER SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR ECONOMIST MILTON Friedman popularized the proverb that everything must be paid for, sooner or later, directly...
RoadShow reveals secrets of sales differentiation
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF DALLAS Industry consultant Drew Cameron unveiled the four secrets of sales differentiation Feb. 1 during the Comfortech...
The 'Catch 22' in training in our industry
BY MIKE BERGEN SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR (Editor's note: The author of the following article contacted CONTRACTOR after reading the letter, "Some technical...
Your options if budget cuts become reality
BY BOB MIODONSKI PUBLISHER AND EDITORIAL DIRECTOR MOST CONTRACTORS I know hate the idea of big government. It means higher taxes and more burdensome regulations...
Tyco to split into three companies
PEMBROKE, BERMUDA Tyco International's board of directors in mid-January approved a plan to split the company into three separate, publicly traded companies:...
Advanced Comfort Systems advances comfort
BY STEVE SPAULDING OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF BARRINGTON, R.I. Art Cannon knows his technology. An engineer by training, he runs an electro-mechanical sales...
Mid-Atlantic to see biggest industrial growth
HOUSTON Manufacturers in the Mid-Atlantic region are expected in 2006 to break ground on the largest increase in industrial project spending in the United...
EPA data lacking about lead in water: GAO report
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can't properly protect children from lead in drinking water in schools because...
Use a water jetter to clear clogged drains
BY MARTY SILVERMAN SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR RUTH COLEMAN, a schoolteacher in Somerset, Pa., came home to find her basement flooded. The whole house was tied...
Contractors face roadblocks to growth: Intuit survey
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF ORLANDO, FLA. Contractors seem to be aware of how to grow their businesses, but only one in five plans to take...
Contest winner shows how you can build sales and increase profits
BY ADAMS HUDSON SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR Rob Basnett, owner of Basnett Plumbing & Heating, says: "I'm sick of hearing people say, 'What if it doesn't work?'...
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