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ARS Service Centers Earn Angie’s List Super Service Award
10 April 2015 MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- American Residential Services has announced that nine of its ARS/Rescue Rooter Network service centers have earned the 2014 Angie’s List Super Service Award, reflecting an exemplary year of service provided to their local marketplace. The service centers are: ? Columbus Worthington Air, Columbus, Ohio (This is the 14th year in a row) - Heating/air conditionin...
Revision of ASHRAE IAQ Guideline Open for Public Comment
10 April 2015 ATLANTA -- ASHRAE announced that it is seeking public input into a proposed revision of its residential IAQ guideline. ASHRAE Guideline 24-2008, Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings, is the companion guideline to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2-2007, Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings. Guideline 24 provides inform...
DrivePak Earns Top Product of the Year Award from Environmen
10 April 2015 PLANO, Texas -- NexRev Inc., a manufacturer of performance-improving energy efficiency upgrades for HVAC equipment, announced that its flagship product, DrivePak? HVAC Efficiency Upgrade, received a Top Product of the Year Award in the Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards. DrivePak is a variable frequency drive (VFD) retrofit technology used by customers to reduce...
Rees Scholarship Foundation Awards Scholarships to Future HV
April 9, 2015 Arlington, Va. -- The Clifford H. "Ted" Rees, Jr., Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation of the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), today announced $17,500 in scholarship funds to 10 students studying to become technicians in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, and water heating industry. "These students are a shi...
Honeywell Named One of the “America’s Best Employers” by For
10 April 2015 Honeywell has been selected as one of the “America’s Best Employers” by Forbes magazine for 2015. The 500 employers on the list were chosen based on an independent survey by Stati...
Reflecting material to reduce heat loads
10 April 2015 Engineers at Stanford University reported in the journal Nature that they have invented a mirror-like material capable, not only of reflecting 97% of sunlight thus reducing incoming heat...
Seiderman Takes Marketing, Sales Reins at Samsung
10 April 2015 Brian Seiderman, MBA-PE, has had a frenetic first quarter as the new vice president of sales and marketing for Samsung HVAC. He took on the role January 1 of this year. Seiderman joined ...
2015 Guide to High-Efficiency Air Conditioning
10 April 2015 We present this easy-to-use annual guide to give HVAC contractors a look at the year’s newest models from the leading brands. We offer this guide each year to give HVAC contractors an e...
ACCA, AHRI Need HVAC Contractor Input on Furnace Installatio
9 April 2015 ? In the DOE’s economic analysis for this proposal, the agency makes certain assumptions about the costs and markups for installations in existing homes and in new construction. ? Short survey seeks input from HVAC contractors everywhere. Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) and Air-conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) are asking HVAC contractors across ...
BuildingIQ Uses MATLAB to Develop Predictive Algorithms for
9 April 2015 NATICK, Mass. -- MathWorks announced that BuildingIQ is using the data analytics capabilities in its MATLAB tool to speed the development and deployment of predictive algorithms for HVAC energy optimization. BuildingIQ engineers have developed Predictive Energy OptimizationTM (PEO), a cloud-based software platform that the company says reduces HVAC energy consumption in large-scale bu...
