John Siegenthaler, P.E., a favorite to the webinar series, will discuss design details, challenges and lessons learned from a from a recent project profile of a modern hybrid approach.

We often tell our home service clients that the key to their success is to highlight what makes them unique.

Ensuring that apprentices and technicians install and repair plumbing and heating systems to your company’s way of doing things is vital to the continued success of your business. If you have a small company, this may be your job, but don’t be intimidated. Al Levi shares some tips to help you be an effective trainer. 

Miles of Aquatherm piping expertly fused with McElroy equipment helps business accomplish its goals.

Did you know coffee was developed as an insect poison? Or that people used to drink beer for breakfast because the water was bad? Discover more interesting facts and history about the world’s love affair with coffee from Max Rohr.

As older technicians continue to leave the industry, ensuring that new technicians know how to treat customers honestly and fairly is vital. Business owners must recognize and compensate outstanding techs so they stick around and influence apprentices and new techs, creating a circle of knowledge that will only benefit you and your company. 

Whether you believe the polar ice caps are melting as a result of fossil fuel emissions or not, I think we can all agree that reducing air pollution is a good thing for the globe. 

This case deals with arbitration and interprets certain provisions of a standard contract document published by the American Institute of Architects. While it involved a construction contract, the principles are also applicable to design professional contracts.

A geo-exchange system either extracts energy from the ground for heating or pumps it back into the ground for cooling. Energy companies and large construction firms can use this technology to help decarbonize our buildings and remain profitable. BF Nagy describes a few such North American projects in this month’s column.