SNIPS Contractor of the Year, McCusker-Gill, walks us through an encore presentation of a recently completed job at the Encore Boston Harbor luxury casino and resort in Everett, Massachusetts.

Under Performance Services, Inc. direction, IFS designed and installed a completely new HVAC and controls system to improve comfort for Hannibal High School’s more than 1,000 students. 

BILL BRADFORD IS A VETERAN OF THE SHEET METAL INDUSTRY IN MORE WAYS THAN MOST. Born and raised in North Side Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the city’s “Steel City” renaissance, Bradford graduated from high school June 1955 and immediately joined the Air Force that July. “I was 17 so my parents had to sign documents to get me in,” he remembers.

I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED NEW TECHNOLOGY. And as a kid, I was an early adapter. My first computer was a DOS 286-based PC, and to cure my boredom, I quickly learned how to boot up basic programs from a 5.25 floppy on that machine.

Calling upon skills taught at the Sheetmetal Ductwork Fabrication School in Burkeville, Virginia, students Tony (left), Nick (right) planned, fabricated, assembled and installed transitions and plenums to achieve a supply and return unit replacement.

After suffering a stroke, John Sciara knew his body could no longer support the demands of sheet metal work. A veteran, union sheet metal worker, Sciara, 53, graduated from apprenticeship in 1992 and has steadily worked for 27 years.

According to the Associated General Contractors of America, construction employment has increased in 249 out of 358 metro areas from May 2018 to May 2019. A shortage of labor likely held back more hiring. 

That type of thinking might apply to many aspects of the HVAC construction and installation industry. Yet, I think we all can agree, job sites aren’t one of them. 

Under development and testing by Stanford University professor Shanhui Fan and his research team, the (pictured below) rooftop device is designed to make electricity from sunlight while also beaming heat away from buildings in a process called “radiative cooling.”

Bryan Orr gives tips on identifying mold and moisture problems in residential HVAC work.