The practice of capping the ends of duct started more than 15 years ago. Over the past several years, there has been a substantial increase in the requirements for covering the ends of duct after fabrication and during transportation, storage and installation.

As advances in smart home technology continue to condition homeowners to want more energy efficient living, others are rethinking the idea of ‘home’ entirely through modular construction.

The future of field service is the customer experience (CX). Sarah Nicastro, director of service management business development at IFS, shares four predictions for HVACR field service organizations that will change business for good. 

After Rochelle Sadler became the first African-American woman to become a sheet metal journeyman in Oregon last year, she’s ready to pave a new path forward.

During the annual AHR Expo last month, you could clearly see why its reputation as 'The Big Show' for HVACR contractors is well-deserved. But while wandering the massive rows of sheet metal machinery and HVACR systems, I couldn't help but think small.

Nortek Air Management, the parent company of Nortek Global HVAC and Nortek Air Solutions, is announcing a price increase up to 6 percent during the first quarter of 2019.

In light of continuing airflow problems in duct systems, are HVAC professionals breaking a covenant with their customers? 

The standard establishes minimum whole-building energy performance requirements (design, construction, and verification) for energy-efficient residential buildings.

Are you an artificial intelligence (AI) optimist or pessimist? Today, AI is often thought of as either the end of the world as we know it; when robots will take all of our jobs; or the answer to all our problems, when AI is the ultimate solution to save the planet.

One of the most common misconceptions about lean manufacturing techniques is that they only apply to large-scale operations. Lean is the continuous improvement of operations to cut down wastes. “What lean tends to do is look at the system and try to identify what adds value,” explains Robert Van Til, Ph.D., professor of lean studies at the Oakland University School of Engineering and Computer Science and chair of the Industrial Systems and Engineering Department.