pme recently had the chance to catch up with industry veteran Mark Chaffee, the vice president of governmental relations and sustainability at Cranston, Rhode Island-based Taco Comfort Solutions. 

A.O. Smith announced Chairman Ajita Rajendra is retiring, effective May 1. 

KAI Enterprises hired Brad Simmons, FAIA, to the new position of managing partner. 

BNP Media’s Clear Seas Research arm in partnership with 43 of the business-to-business publishing giant’s brands, recently conducted a COVID-19 survey with readers across seven different disciplines, including mechanical systems, which includes Plumbing Group brands Supply House Times, Plumbing & Mechanical and PM Engineer (pme). 

Caleffi North Amercia’s Bob “Hot Rod” Rohr is the recipient of the 2020-2022 Carlson-Holohan Industry Award of Excellence. 

From Dodge Data Analytics, total construction starts slipped 6% from December to January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $759.2 billion. 

For the last 10 years, I have reported on the happenings throughout the PHCP supply chain involving contractors, distributors, master distributors, reps, engineers and service providers.

Congratulations to those products on this year’s list. These are based on the number of page views on pmengineer.com.

Jomar Valve announced the recent addition of Kristina Howes as marketing manager. 

The race is on.