Giving your customers a simple questionnaire about your company’s prices and services will provide you with valuable insight into challenges you need to fix and the qualities they appreciate the most.

Your dream may be to own a plumbing or hydronics contracting business. If so, have plans ready for company growth and succession. After a few years, you may throw an existing plan out entirely; don’t be afraid of change when growing. 

AquaGuard donates WAGS trainer valves to plumbing programs to teach students and apprentices the value of adding a leak detection system to a water heater installation. The returned and activated WAGS valves are rebuilt and re-used in its cost-effective Evergreen Program.

Looking back to a case from 1973, Steven Nudelman explains this negligence claim where a contractor was forced to pay for additional materials and labor because of an architect’s errors and omissions.

Read this month’s BF Nagy column to learn about ASHRAE Standard 241, Control of Infectious Aerosols (in Buildings) to reduce the risk of airborne disease transmission, such as SARS-COV-2 virus, the flu virus and other pathogens in buildings. Also, discover heat batteries and how they can help with decarbonization. 

New rating system focuses on setting existing buildings on decarbonization path and addresses equity, health, ecosystems and resilience.

The Tennessee-based global public relations agency takes the Southeast USA honors for 2023-2024.

AFSA42 attendees were spellbound this year as the American Fire Sprinkler Association presented its Annual Convention, Exhibition, and Apprentice Competition in Orlando, Florida, Sept. 6-9.

Oatey Co. was recognized as the Company of the Year in the large company category at Engage!

Embodied carbon and operational energy were the focus of the 2023 ASHRAE Building Performance Analysis Conference held recently in Austin, Texas.