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2023 Heating Season Preview: Customers’ needs for the basic services contractors provide may never change, but the technology and business settings to provide them will.
Mechanical contractor Dan Foley looks at how connectivity, inflation and interest rates, supply chain issues, electrification and heat pumps, and private equity acquisitions affect the U.S. heating industry.
Dennis Whitelaw, owner and president of Towle Whitney, discusses how the company got its start and their booster pump systems.
July 1, 2023
Towle Whitney designs water booster pump systems and prides itself on their value-engineered solutions. PHCPPros recently spoke with Dennis Whitelaw, co-owner and president of Towle Whitney to learn more about the company and their products. Here’s what he had to say.
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.
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.
As online sales grow and the reshoring of U.S. semiconductor production continues, this market could be a key opportunity for future clean energy systems.
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.