Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-One. I figured I’d sound older and wiser if I typed it out rather than just a 1, 9 , 8, and a 1. Well, maybe not wiser but certainly older.

Hydronics Country. What comes to mind? New England? New York and Pennsylvania? Maybe even the northern Midwest. But, likely, not the New Mexico-Colorado border.

The country’s largest privately held homebuilder has honored Uponor with its Partners of Choice Award for five years running.

The way I see it, we have three ways to put together a boiler room. We can piece it together on site, fitting by fitting, following a piping schematic. We can buy a prefab panel from a manufacturer. Or, we can build our own prefab panel suited specifically for the job it’s intended for.

I hope parents still encourage their kids to explore working with their hands. There’s productive work to be done and fun to be had.

The winners range from a net-zero housing complex to a North Pole drinking water pipeline.

Be aware of what is going on with gas-burning equipment to keep yourself and your customers safe.

The company was recognized in the industrial/manufacturing/science category for the design and build-out of its new PEX pipe manufacturing plant.

If you’re like most construction professionals — feeling the crunch of the labor shortage, but wanting the quality of professional piping — check out the new hybrid PEX expansion and copper press system.