ABS Adopts Linc Identity
HOUSTON On the heels of celebrating its 25th anniversary, Houston-based Affiliated Building Services LLC, (ABS) a provider of outsourced facility management...
Webstone Marks 50th Year
WORCESTER, MASS. Webstone Co. is celebrating its 50th year of providing products and service to the plumbing-and-heating industry. Webstone has evolved...
Total Comfort of Wisc. Acquires Wenninger
PEWAUKEE, WIS. Total Comfort of Wisconsin has acquired Wenninger Mechanical. The transition will be finished later this year and, until that time, operations...
T-Drill President Retires
NORCROSS, GA. Bill Holyoak will retire from T-Drill Industries at years end after 24 years as the companys president. Holyoak joined T-Drill when it was...
KeySpan Plans Sale of Contracting Operations
BY ROBERT P. MADER of CONTRACTORs staff BOSTON Finding that its tough to make a buck in the plumbing-and-heating business, utility KeySpan Corp. said...
IAPMO Seeks Key Positions
ONTARIO, CALIF. Due to a high demand for educational seminars in 2005 and the expansion of code development, the International Association of Plumbing...
53% See Construction Productivity as Flat or Declining
Special to CONTRACTOR RALEIGH, N.C. Management consulting firm FMI released in October the results of its latest survey of contractor productivity, FMI...
Fire sprinkler group says Chicago is stalling
by Robert P. Mader Of Contractor's Staff CHICAGO Following a fatal October 2003 fire at the Cook County Administration Building here, passage of a high-rise...
Tank and tankless technology: To store or not to store?
For centuries, man's only access to hot water was to find a hot spring. With the discovery of fire and invention of pottery, our forebears began heating...
Even low-rise buildings need sprinklers: contractor
CHICAGO Although fires in high-rise structures have received considerable media attention in the Chicago area, such fires aren't just limited to highrises...
Kamco betters Web
OAKVILLE, ONTARIO Kamco Products, manufacturer of coated copper tubing, has officially launched its redesigned corporate Website, www.kamcoproducts.com....
RuB marks 10th year
MINNEAPOLIS Rubinetterie Utensilerie Bonomi, the Italian brass valve manufacturer along with its U.S. subsidiary RuB Inc., is celebrating RuB's 10th year...
EMCOR wins two big contracts
NORWALK, CONN. EMCOR Group has been awarded two multi-year facilities services and operation and maintenance contracts, one with the U.S. State Department...
Ahern acquires sprinkler firm
FOND DU LAC, WIS. J. F. Ahern Co. has purchased the assets of North Central Piping, a fire protection contractor based in Neenah, Wis. NCP has been in...
Mechanical Inc. earns MSCA STAR Qualification
FREEPORT, ILL. The Mechanical Service Contractors of America has designated Mechanical Inc. as an MSCA STAR Qualified Contractor. The MSCA's designation...
Panel calls for retrofits to sprinkler high-rises
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF CHICAGO A blue ribbon panel investigating a deadly high-rise office building fire here in October 2003 has recommended...
Feds oust 4 from UA pension fund
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF WASHINGTON The U. S. Department of Labor filed a consent order on Aug. 2, 2004, ousting four trustees from the...
The Right Team for Chicagos Palmer House
BY ROBERT P. MADER of CONTRACTORs staff CHICAGO The Palmer House Hilton needed to replace its cooling tower and called on industrial and commercial HVAC...
Illingworth is GC's Top Sub
MILWAUKEE GC Schmidt, a leading general contractor and construction manager in Wisconsin, has named mechanical services contractor Illingworth Corp. its...
Ahern Awards Scholarship
MADISON, WIS. Ahern Fire Protection Vice President Ken Collins recently presented Madison Area Technical College student Julie Boland with a $650 scholarship...
Baseball Hall of Fame - Cooler Than Ever
BY ROBERT P. MADER of CONTRACTORs staff COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. Elmira, N.Y.-based mechanical contractor Kimble Inc. is putting the finishing touches on its...
Hughes Supply Buys Todd Pipe
ORLANDO, FLA. Hughes Supply has acquired Todd Pipe & Supply, an independent plumbing wholesaler in Southern California and Las Vegas. The transaction...
Ken Zoeller, 59, dies on Taiwan trip
LOUISVILLE, KY. Kenneth Everett Zoeller, 59, of Louisville died of a heart attack May 8 while traveling on business in Taipei, Taiwan. He was employed...
Comfort President Chambers Resigns
HOUSTON Mechanical contracting consolidator Comfort Systems USA Inc., announced in mid-April that Norman C. Chambers would resign his roles as president,...
Fluid Fights Fires Without Water
NEW YORK Tyco Fire & Security has introduced its Halon replacement Ansul Sapphire Fire Suppression System. The technology uses a new chemical agent that...
