On this design build renovation project at Placid Refinery House #5, Star Service, Inc. handled all engineering, fabrication and installation work in-house. This included switching the refinery’s antiquated HVAC system for a (pictured) motor control center.

A routine fire incident such as this one would not normally make headlines, but with toilet paper being in such demand during our current state of affairs, let's just say we are happy things did not turn out worse. 

Founded in 1889, the Masonic Home of Missouri is a nonprofit charitable organization that provides statewide assistance to Masons, their families and children in need. Included in its 50,000-square-foot, two-story Masonic Complex of Missouri museum, a range of exhibits featuring one-of-a-kind artifacts, tell the stories of how Masons shaped Missouri’s early history. 

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

HVAC airflow problems can make or break a duct system design. After all, the cornerstone of the heating and cooling industry is comfort. Without proper HVAC airflow, comfort goes out the window — pun intended. The end result is a building owner left with a duct system absent its purpose. 

Seeing is believing when it comes to recruiting more women into the HVAC industry.   

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. 

Why you shouldn’t be using ‘sub-slab’ and ‘transite’ interchangeably.

SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 88 TRAINING DIRECTOR Ed Abraham was a third-year apprentice when he started drafting for one of the largest mechanical contractors in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Kuck Mechanical, a commercial and industrial mechanical contractor based in Northern Colorado, recently won an “Excellence in Construction” award for its ductwork design at Colorado State University’s Nancy Richardson Design Center.