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Contractor Profit Advantage

Are Your Prices Too High, Too Low or Just Right?

Running a business in any area requires determining your business’s just-right situation.
March 7, 2023
Richard DiToma

What beans should you count to do what is right for your business to succeed? Read on to determine the just-right factors to properly price your services while collecting a profit. 


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Feature

Designing Plumbing Systems for Safer Patient Environments

Behavioral health environment elements protect patients from themselves; designers must understand the risk levels in each area of the facility.
March 6, 2023
Aaron Bock PE

When designing behavioral health facilities, plumbing professionals must choose environmental designs and products that minimize the risk of patients harming themselves and their caregivers. To do so, they need to understand the risk levels in each facility area.


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Collaborative Health Care Design

Zone Valves

Designers will need to determine many decisions on their own until the code can explain concisely where to locate the zone valve box.
March 6, 2023
John Gregory

The codes can be confusing when determining where zone valve boxes should be installed in critical care space, also known as Category 1 space. Read on for some tips on using the code to make those decisions.


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FPE Corner

What’s New with SFPE’s Fire Risk Assessment Guide

The second edition incorporates new research and best-practice methodologies for calculating fire risks and hazards in buildings.
March 6, 2023

Fire protection engineers have revised guidelines with new methodologies to help them assess the fire risk and hazards in buildings.


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Guest Editorial

A Perspective: Customers Are Real People

Opinions and suggestions about sales are freely proffered by many, but not everyone is good at doing it.
March 6, 2023

The sales profession is a lot like golf. Anybody can play the game — amateurs and professionals — and they can all talk about it. 


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Inventory Management

News Flash: Remote Work is Here to Stay

You can find peace with this new decentralized work environment, or you can hang up the cleats. Quit trying to push the boulder uphill; it’s distracting you.
February 3, 2023
Jason Bader

I was speaking with a couple of separate clients a couple of months ago, and the subject of remote work and workplace expectations came up in both conversations.


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The 7-Power Contractor

Hit the Reset on Your Business

Objectively evaluate what is going on in your contracting company and what needs to change.
February 3, 2023
Al Levi

Business owners can react emotionally to suggestions that major changes are needed in the organization to achieve the desired success level. Read on for tips to objectively evaluate your company so you can attain your professional and personal goals.


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Contactor Profit Advantage

Dealing With Obtuse Consumers

Rely on the terms, conditions and prices of your agreement with the client, and include explanatory language on all invoices and contract forms.
February 3, 2023
Richard DiToma

When clients balk at the price of your services after the work has been completed and the invoice is signed and paid, it’s usually because they talked to an unscrupulous and inexperienced plumber. And that plumber said he could have done the work for less. Read on for some tips to handle that in your company.


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Feature

Driving the ENERGY STAR Score Up in a Commercial Space

Tips and examples to keep comfort needs in a better balance with energy consumption.
February 3, 2023

Boilers and chillers switched off, running efficiently and minimally for as long as possible, can keep comfort needs in a better balance with energy consumption.


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Feature

On-Premises Nitrogen Generation to Address CO2 Supply Concerns for Breweries

As these gases serve similar purposes in brewery processes, replacing one with the other is viable where a specific gas may not be required. Read on to learn about technologies that can aid in this endeavor.
February 3, 2023

With a nationwide shortage of carbon dioxide, breweries are looking at nitrogen substitution for some brewing processes. 


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