Commercial Contractors Thrive On Teamwork
One of my first clients was a commercial real estate developer who managed 103 million square feet of industrial and office properties in the United States and United Kingdom. Serving a large...
View ArticleYou Need To Be Doing Design/Build
At age 12 I started working for my father carrying his tools. I recall sitting in the snow watching my father work on an early heat pump thinking I need to learn a different trade. However at 16, with...
View ArticleBuilding a Service Department
As the Service Manager for Walton and Company, I handle the preventative maintenance (PM) sales, overseeing 100 individuals in our team. Walton is celebrated its 30th anniversary this April with our...
View ArticleACCA’s Commercial Contractor of the Year Attributes Its Success To Its People
When Del-Air Mechanical Contractors CEO Dwane Lay came home from work one day in 1980 to tell his wife, Sherry, he was going to start his own business, his daughter Lori Sentell doesn’t recall the news...
View ArticleCarrier Rooftop Units and Wi-Fi® Thermostats Win Utility Rebate, Deliver...
OBJECTIVES: Motorcars Toyota is a family-owned car dealership in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The 30,000 ft2 facility struggled with an 18-year-old rooftop unit that had become unreliable and inefficient,...
View ArticleCarrier AquaForce® 30XV Chillers Position Verizon Hotel for Utility Rebates...
Objectives Verizon was experiencing inadequate comfort cooling from two existing air-cooled chillers and escalating service costs. They called on Carrier to propose a solution that would provide the...
View ArticleCase Study: Walnut Hill Community Church
Clay Norman has been a member of Bethel, Connecticut’s Walnut Hill Community Church since 1985. Serving as both an Elder and as the Director of Facilities, Norman has seen many church renovations over...
View ArticleHandling Issues In The Commercial Market
Imagine a business world without new restaurants, remodeled hospitals, or redesigned libraries. Frightening, right? Fact is construction represents a critical piece of the national and global economy....
View ArticleLehigh Valley Health Network Retrofits Headquarters with AquaEdge® 23XRV Chiller
OBJECTIVES Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is a regional healthcare provider with multiple hospital and primary care locations, staffed by almost 14,000 employees. Its headquarters, home to the...
View ArticleCase Study – The Garrett-Jacobs Mansion
The Garrett-Jacobs Mansion is a historic, four-story home in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Built in the late 1800s, the celebrated building – preserved by state historical...
View ArticleCommercial Contractors Thrive On Teamwork
One of my first clients was a commercial real estate developer who managed 103 million square feet of industrial and office properties in the United States and United Kingdom. Serving a large...
View ArticleYou Need To Be Doing Design/Build
At age 12 I started working for my father carrying his tools. I recall sitting in the snow watching my father work on an early heat pump thinking I need to learn a different trade. However at 16, with...
View ArticleBuilding a Service Department
As the Service Manager for Walton and Company, I handle the preventative maintenance (PM) sales, overseeing 100 individuals in our team. Walton is celebrated its 30th anniversary this April with our...
View ArticleACCA’s Commercial Contractor of the Year Attributes Its Success To Its People
When Del-Air Mechanical Contractors CEO Dwane Lay came home from work one day in 1980 to tell his wife, Sherry, he was going to start his own business, his daughter Lori Sentell doesn’t recall the news...
View ArticleHB McClure Named ACCA’s 2021 Commercial Contractor of the Year
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) concludes its winter Board of Directors and membership meeting by announcing HB McClure Company in Harrisburg, PA, as the ACCA 2021 Commercial...
View ArticleInvesting in Employees & Employee Empowerment is HB McClure’s Secret to Success
HB McClure located in Harrisburg, PA started off as a family owned business founded in 1914. Throughout the century, McClure has operated in Central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Carlisle, Hershey and...
View ArticleHigh-Rises with High Rewards
ACCA member Thermal Concepts, Inc. has been serving commercial and industrial properties in South Florida since 1983. As one of the largest HVAC contractors in the southeastern United States, Thermal...
View ArticleAttend Codes & Coffee Live at ACCA 2022!
ACCA’s Codes & Coffee is a monthly webinar focusing on the latest codes and standards issues facing the HVACR industry. This year at the ACCA 2022 Conference & Expo, March 28-30 in St. Louis,...
View ArticleJuly Tech Challenge — Question
A commercial rooftop utilizing R-410A with a TXV feed device (and receiver) has a customer complaint of “insufficient cooling.” The symptoms confirm inadequate cooling and the compressor appears to be...
View ArticleIt’s Hurricane Season…Are You Prepared?
Every year you hear that May 15 – November 30 is the Eastern Pacific hurricane season and June 1 – November 30 is the central pacific and Atlantic hurricane season for the United States. It’s hard to...
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