"The Apprenticeship Alternative Enrollment, Completion Rates, and Earnings in Registered Apprenticeship Programs in Illinois" provides five key takeaways from analyzing 17 years of apprenticeship data in Illinois.

If you want to stand out as a professional trying to enter the plumbing, heating and cooling trade, try getting a perfect score at your local apprentice contest!

Make a New Year’s resolution to understand the amount of money you must charge for the services you provide to the public to recover the costs you incur providing those services. The right price also allows you to earn the profit you deserve for delivering excellence through those services. 

No one goes to work expecting to be seriously injured — or worse — but, unfortunately, it happens. In the latest figures released (for 2017), 5,147 workers died during their duties on jobsites.

For Patrick Gentry, owner and president of Holland, Mich.-based T.A. Gentry Supply Inc., the key to success is simple. Rely on old-school conventions. It’s a business acumen that’s not fancy, but it works. 

Xylem Bell & Gossett recently celebrated the official reopening of its Little Red Schoolhouse, the company’s suburban Chicago training center for PHCPpros dedicated to the plumbing and heating industries.

The company's staff members are committed to a wide variety of projects both locally and globally.

In 2019, the company partnered with Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity for a 10th year during its annual Sonnhalter Tool Drive, which collected $28,000 worth of tools and building materials.

Hiller previously won the Nashville Business Journal designation in 2015, 2016, and 2018.