Over the past several months, HARDI advocacy has maintained a strong and strategic presence across the states and in our nation’s capitol, promoting policies that reflect the needs of HVACR distributors and the contractor customers they serve.

The behavioral health sector is one of the fastest-growing segments in the healthcare construction industry. 

The plumbing manufacturing industry faces considerable challenges. What’s at stake? Decades of proven water-efficiency standards that work.

According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 95% of generative artificial intelligence (AI) pilots at companies fail to deliver revenue impact (https://yhoo.it/4nHjebz). 

Wholesale distributors and manufacturers in the HVAC, plumbing, and PVF sectors face a unique challenge in their warehouses: extreme variation in product size, shape, weight, and material-handling requirements.

The skilled trades have built nations — from homes, schools and roads to commercial buildings and infrastructure that power daily life.

In today’s plumbing and PVF marketplace, reliability, safety and product availability remain constant priorities for wholesalers and contractors.

Drawing from a 400-unit retrofit project in Portland, Vidhisha Moopnar explores how creative ducting, repurposed infrastructure, and noise mitigation are key to successfully transitioning multifamily buildings to high-efficiency heat pump water heaters.

Drawing a parallel to the historic Carolina gold rush, John A. Mullen argues that Charlotte’s shift toward thermal energy networks and geothermal infrastructure is transforming buildings into energy assets and positioning the trades at the heart of the net-zero transition.