New Energy Plant Fires Up Nashville
By ROBERT P. MADER of CONTRACTORs staff NASHVILLE, TENN. Back in 1973, Nashville Machine Co. built the Nashville district energy plant. It was the first...
Prudames, 64, Led Sales Effort
MONTGOMERY, ALA. Charles N. Prudames, vice president/sales for Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co., died April 4 after losing a long battle with cancer. He was 64....
Pipe Price Hikes Stun Industry
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff ANY CONTRACTOR who has bought pipe or duct lately has probably experienced sticker shock. And any contractor who...
Pipe Insulation Plant Planned
DENVER. Fiberglass producer Johns Manville in late March announced plans to build a new pipe insulation manufacturing facility to restore capacity lost...
Granby Tanks Buys Kamco
OAKVILLE, ONTARIO Granby Steel Tanks, a maker of steel storage tanks for the North American heating, air conditioning and plumbing market, acquired the...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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,...
Tyco Plans Sale of Some Fire & Security Businesses
PEMBROKE, BERMUDA Tyco International in November reported a loss of 15 cents per share for its fourth quarter, compared to a loss of 72 cents per share...
Lifted Steel Tariffs Could Spell Relief
BY BOB MIODONSKI Of CONTRACTORs staff WASHINGTON Steel-using manufacturers in the plumbing-heating-piping industry generally greeted reports of President...
Bill Would Give High-Rise Owners Sprinklers Tax Break
CHICAGO - Illinois State Rep. Timothy L. Schmitz has introduced a bill that could save the states high-rise building owners the cost of retrofitting their...
Shambaugh Receives DBIA Award
FORT WAYNE, IND. Shambaugh & Son has received a 2003 national design-build award from the Design-Build Institute of America. The mechanical contractor...
NATE to Offer Certification Test at AHR Expo
WESTPORT, CONN. -North American Technician Excellence Inc., a leading independent certification program for technicians in the HVAC industry, will again...
Great Lakes Crew Moves Stealthily Through Night
CHICAGO No, its not the SWAT team or undercover FBI agents its the crew of fire sprinkler retrofitters from Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating Co. For the...
EMCOR Buys Siemens' Facility Services Business
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff NORWALK, CONN. EMCOR Group Inc. has purchased Siemens U.S. Facility Management Services business as part of a...
Watts Makes Name Change
NORTH ANDOVER, MASS. Watts Industries in mid-October announced that it will change its name to Watts Water Technologies Inc. The renamed Watts Water Technologies...
Sprinkler Ordinance Gains Momentum
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff CHICAGO After years of lip service, Chicago might get an ordinance requiring fire sprinkler retrofitting in existing...
Contractors Want to Keep Old Confined Space Rule
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff WASHINGTON Contractor associations are telling the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration to apply...
Two Uniform Codes Get ANSI Designation
Special to CONTRACTOR ONTARIO, CALIF. Following a three-year process, the Uniform Plumbing Code and Uniform Mechanical Code were designated Sept. 8 as...
N.Y. Contractors Battle 'Scaffolding Law'
BY ROBERT P. MADER Of CONTRACTORs staff NEW YORK Only in New York state can a contractors employee be dead drunk or high on drugs, fall off a scaffolding...
California Building Code Fight Starts
BY ROBERT P. MADER of CONTRACTORs staff SACRAMENTO, CALIF. Only in California can building codes get as nutty as the states politics. On July 30, the...
Tougher Builds Cornell Clean Room
BY ROBERT P. MADER of CONTRACTORs staff ITHACA, N.Y. Tougher Industries, Albany, N.Y., is finishing the mechanical contract for a highly sensitive clean...
