Jennifer Fox Mann is a third generation sheet metal worker. “That means that my grandfather and father paved the way for me.”

As your brother, former Duro Dyne CEO and Chairman Randy Hinden, readied his path to retirement over the last two years, you took on a more active role in the company. 

As shelter-in-place directives and orders took effect across northern counties in California, contractors and local and state officials are trying to decipher the definition of “essential” in the unprecedented response to curtail COVID-19.

When you stepped into your role as president and CEO of NB Handy four years ago, did you already have experience with the inner workings of the HVAC industry?  

The only woman inducted into the TABB Hall of Fame, Mary Coffey was a trailblazer out of necessity. The rest is her-story.

"The recent escalation in the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 is alarming on a global scale,” says 2019-20 ASHRAE president Darryl K. Boyce, P.Eng. 

With demand for skilled labor projected to reach an all-time high the next decade, the future of the male-dominated building trades rests on the industry’s efforts to roll out the welcome mat for another generation and gender. A new research project, seeking to understand how women thrive in the skilled trades, may pave the way for more people to call the sheet metal industry home.

After a conversation at the 2002 AHR Expo, Ruth King and Gwen Hoskins established Women in HVACR with one simple mission: women supporting women. “This conversation between two women was the catalyst for the organization,” explains Karen Lamy DeSousa, Women in HVACR’s 2020 president. 

The City of Nashville, Tennessee, may be the capital of country music, but at Nashville Sheet Metal it is heavy metal all day and all the time. Established in 2003 between longtime sheet metal workers Kevin Elliott and Tracy Cross, the small but mighty shop has quickly made its mark on Music City by diversifying its construction catalog. 

Ohio schools, union contractors working together to help high school students build a path to the skilled trades.