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April 2024

Volume: 24
Edition: 4

UMC’s Manufacturing Mindset: Innovation on full display throughout contractor’s well-planned 95,000-square-foot production facility.

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UMC’s Manufacturing Mindset

Innovation on full display throughout contractor’s well-planned 95,000-square-foot production facility.
April 1, 2024
Steve Smith
Construction technology on full display throughout UMC Inc.’s well-planned 95,000-square-foot prefabrication facility.


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Women In PHCP 2024

Celebrating 11 women in the plumbing, heating, cooling and piping industry
April 1, 2024
Nicole Meyer

Women are becoming less ambitious. That couldn’t be further from the truth, but it’s one of the most reported myths about the current state of women at work.


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Power Up Your Fleet Operations with Modern Fleet Cards

Thanks to new card infrastructure and software innovations, fleet cards can be smarter than ever.
April 1, 2024

For 40 years, fleet payments haven’t seen much innovation, but that’s begun to change.


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Q&A with Gloria Salazar, Executive Director, Plumbing Contractors Association

With members wanting to teach and would-be students eager to learn, it was a natural for the group to start its own apprenticeship program.
April 1, 2024
Steve Smith
The Plumbing Contractors Association launched its Apprenticeship Program six years ago to teach the next generation of tradespeople.


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Contractor Culture

Six Technology Trends for Plumbing and HVAC

Our traditional ‘old school’ industry is still filled with plenty of new high tech advancements.
April 1, 2024

The tradition ‘old shool’ plumbing and HVAC industries are still filled with new high tech advancements.


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Environmentally Luxurious: How Low Flow Can Still Deliver Bliss

While water flow is important, the true feel of a showerhead comes from its design.
April 1, 2024
While water flow is important, the true feel of a showerhead comes from its design.


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Water Leakage Can Be Prevented

Residential leaks waste nearly 1 trillion gallons of water annually.
April 1, 2024
John Vastyan

Residential leaks waste nearly 1 trillion gallons of water annually.  


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Heat Pump Survey Shows Strong Interest Among Readers

There are strong incentives for consumers to purchase the appliances with installers following suit.
April 1, 2024
Steve Smith

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Alternative Energy

A Seed Story

Through the sand and ice.
April 1, 2024
Max Rohr

Water, food and air are essential for human survival. Today, about 30 crops provide 95 percent of human food globally. As climate change alters how and where we can grow crops productively, farming research and seed protection are critical.


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Geothermal HVAC

How Energy Poverty Impacts Communities

Thermal energy networks are spreading, and the benefits are consistently presented as a realistic solution to real-world problems.
April 1, 2024
Mimi Egg

When we must decide between eating or paying our heating bills, you know things are bad. One method to make energy more affordable is creating thermal energy networks — connecting multiple buildings and sharing thermal energy sources such as geothermal.


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MOMENTUM BUILDING MARKETING

PR is Crucial to Your Recruitment Strategy

When your brand is trusted and respected, you can hang onto valuable employees and attract new ones while cultivating loyal customers.
April 1, 2024
Heather Ripley

A good public relations strategy can attract new employees, which continues to be challenging in the home services business. Your company culture, social media presence, digital reviews and the voices of current employees are used by prospective employees to vet your company.


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The Time Has Come for Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics

These systems enhance the effectiveness of personnel efforts, but their success ultimately hinges on active engagement from building operators.
April 1, 2024

Using automation to detect faults and diagnose building issues is evolving. However, it is not a substitute for facilities personnel engagement and a genuine desire to improve operations. Justin Bowker from TDIndustries explains how his company successfully uses automated facilities management processes.


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Contractor Profit Advantage

Business is Always About the Numbers

Correctly calculated numbers can help you achieve your goals and add value to your business for potential buyers.
April 1, 2024
Richard DiToma

As contractors juggle correct pricing, fair employee compensation, and personal salaries, it’s important to know and understand their business costs and how many tech hours they must sell to ensure the company is not losing money.


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CONTRACTOR STORIES

The (Mechanical) Middle Class is Dying

I get more calls now to fix newer systems than at any other point in my career.
April 1, 2024
Tom Soukup

Societal divisions don’t only happen in the virtual world. The construction trades have seen the middle ground give way to high-end plumbing/heating applications and low-bid, low-skilled jobs. Tom Soukup has some ideas as to why that happened.


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