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Dave Yates: Contractor’s Corner
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Dave Yates covers issues related to business and PHVAC from a contractor's perspective.

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Dave Yates: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

Predictions for the future of the PHVAC industry.
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Dave Yates
December 31, 2020
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Assembling prior columns, updating older information, along with some new content for the four eBooks has been an interesting review of my 48-years as a mechanical contractor. 


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Looking Back

Dave Yates: Looking back to looking forward

Considerations for designing radiant cooling systems.
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Dave Yates
September 9, 2020
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Looking back to 1991 when we first started searching for home designs, there was a radiant heating revival underway in the USA. 


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Dave Yates: Waterborne diseases and engineers

A look back at the early sanitation and sewer systems of Chicago.
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Dave Yates
July 7, 2020
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Waterborne diseases were, at one time, the largest health threat to human life.


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Legionella and COVID-19

Dave Yates: Legionella and COVID-19

The issues surrounding thermal scalding and bacterial amplification.
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Dave Yates
May 11, 2020
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We just finished unpacking and sterilizing our peapod grocery delivery this morning: Anything going in the house was wiped down with paper towels soaked in Clorox disinfectant. 


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