With a sharp wit and sense of humor, Bryan Orr has quickly become one of the most powerful and recognizable voices in the HVACR industry — covering everything from duct fabrication to installation in his wildly successful HVAC School podcast. He is the vice-president of service at Kalos Services Inc in Clermont, Florida  which he started with his dad when he was 17, and he regularly helps his team train and troubleshoot as a working contractor. But if you ask him about it (and we did), he’ll say he’s just keeping busy.

After over 20 years as a sheet metal worker, Ron Aho’s body was starting to give out — his arm, especially. Years of swinging hammers overhead to hang ductwork had led to constant shoulder pain.

City officials in Little Rock, Arkansas, are looking to re-establish HVAC and ductwork testing standards for residences, according to an article from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s website.

I recently had a son graduate from college. To celebrate, my wife and I took a group out to a week-old new restaurant. 

The Air Movement and Control Association International Inc. will hold its first Air System Engineering and Technology Conference March 6-7 at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk in San Antonio.

Urso Air Systems installed a complete York HVAC system, which was donated by Johnson Controls, for the home of U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Arturo Weber. 

Frigidaire HVAC has redesigned its F series air conditioners and heat pumps, changing the units from featuring a one-piece jacket to panels made to be easier for HVAC technicians to remove or replace.

A new equivalent round duct calculator app from Eastern Sheet Metal allows sheet metal contractors and installers, including HVAC engineers and contractors, to convert rectangular and flat-oval duct dimensions to round. It can also convert rectangular duct to flat oval. 

In 1948, research by R.G. Huebscher established flow resistance for different shapes of ductwork at equal velocities, which allowed the creation of the duct-sizing calculator or “Ductulator” for picking equivalent sizes of rectangular ducts based on the baseline round duct size. 

Small-duct HVAC manufacturer Unico has partnered with the National Association of the Remodeling Industry in order to collaborate with contractors who face challenges such as installing central air in older homes.