Now more than ever, your sheet metal shop operations need to be lean in order for you to get the most out of your socially distanced workforce. 

Anyone interested in weighing in on revisions to ASHRAE standard 90.2, “Energy-Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings,” is invited to comment until June 18.

Mestek Machinery will be using this month’s AHR Expo to introduce a machine that officials say will save energy while allowing greater shop efficiency, thanks to its ability to perform sheet metal fabrication with heavier gauge metal.

Taco Comfort Solutions has released the free, interactive Building Efficiency System Tool (BEST). This tool brings efficiency ratings and data together to compare the performance, life cycles and costs for any type of HVAC system early in the design process, company officials say. 

The expected rise in steel prices does not necessarily mean the rise of total costs.  In the HVAC industry, one way to offset increased steel prices is to reduce the cost of labor to make ducts and fittings by being more efficient.  How do we do this?  Machine automation.

Dirty coils stress HVAC systems, inhibiting the ability of compressors to operative efficiently and increase energy by about 20 percent.

One of the country’s foremost wholesalers of sheet metal working machinery is Vorys Bros. Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. Richard S. Voorhees is manager of the machinery division. When he heard that we were putting together some information on shop layouts, he kindly submitted for inclusion in this booklet some very helpful information. Voorhees has assisted many shops in his trading area with their shop layout problems.

It’s an issue that the green HVAC construction industry has long been involved in, since before it had a name or a movement behind it.