For more than 30 years, Falke published hundreds of articles in magazines across the HVAC Industry. He spoke at dozens of conferences and association meetings, touching and improving the lives and technical skills of contractors across the United States. Rob Falke’s influence will continue for generations.

Attendee registration is slated to open in March.

If the past year was any indication, most plumbing and HVACR business owners must have spent the pandemic planning their exit strategies. I’m unofficially dubbing 2021 the year of the acquisition.

Growing up in West Bloomfield, Michigan, Brianne Hall remembers receiving engineering concept lessons in her father’s car on the way to elementary school. Her dad — who had degrees in both civil and mechanical engineering — handed her a paper clip to explain the concept of failure due to fatigue.

Friedrich is an industry leader in high-end air conditioning solutions and will be a standalone business unit within the Rheem Global Air business.

Trane will deploy and test Solstice N41 at three customer locations in different parts of the United States as part of a one-year field trial.

The paint can keep surfaces 19° F cooler than their ambient surroundings at night. It can also cool surfaces 8° F below their surroundings under strong sunlight during noon hours.

Trane will expand its existing workforce as part of the new operation and plans to hire additional engineers, energy services specialists and technicians throughout 2021.

Before I retired in 2016, I’d get a lot of calls from lawyers who wanted to hire me to be an expert witness at a trial.