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ACCA to Host First “National HVACR Service Managers Forum”

Service managers play a key role in a contracting company’s success. In response to many requests for better educational opportunities for these important players, the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) will host the first National HVACR Service Managers Forum on October 9 & 10 in Houston, Texas.

The two-day intensive educational and networking event has been designed by contractors to provide maximum learning impact on the people who manage service departments, or who are being groomed for possible management positions in an HVACR contracting business.

The Forum is built around six real-world workshops, each of which is being offered twice so that attendees will be able to participate in each one. The topics to be addressed are:

•        Structure Your Service Department for Profit

•        The Perfect Service Call

•        How to Stay Cool When Customers Get Hot

•        Finances for Service Managers

•        Leading Effective Meetings and Training Programs

•        Taking Your Service Agreement Program to the Next Level

Service managers will also get the unique opportunity to meet with, share with, and learn from other service managers from all over the country during a Roundtable Luncheon. Attendees will be able to choose “topic tables” and participate in conversations with other service managers on a variety of challenges and opportunities, such as GPS and fleet management, productivity pay, dispatching improvements, and many more.

The National HVACR Service Managers Forum is being presented by ACCA in cooperation with the Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration NEWS. It will be held October 9 & 10 at the Doubletree Hotel Houston Downtown in Houston, Texas.

For full program information and to register for the Forum, visit www.acca.org/servicemanagers or www.servicemanagersforum.com, Students earn scholarships in Air Conditioning Technology

 

WACO — Four students from Texas State Technical College Waco have earned a total of $2,100 in scholarship funds this summer, thanks, in part to their academic performance and funding from the Air Conditioning Technology (ACT) program.

ACT students Jeff Martin, Jairo E. Molina, Eric Landeros and Caleb Brown each received Air Conditioning Today Endowment Scholarship funds and were commended by TSTC Waco’s Advisory Board during its annual committee meeting May 16. A sub-committee of the board made the final selection of those to be awarded. 

Martin, of Lewisville, received $300, while Molina of Round Rock, Landeros of Cameron and Brown of Fredericksburg each received $600.

“These students are dedicated to school, and it’s nice we can reward them for their efforts,” said ACT Department Chair Jeff Looper. “We’re working hard to recruit more students with our scholarship awards, as we would like to recruit more people overall for the Air Conditioning/HVAC industry.”

To find out more, call (254) 867-4850, or visit http://www.waco.tstc.edu/act/.

 

World’s largest annual wind energy event held in Houston

WINDPOWER 2008 Conference & Exhibition focused on dynamic U.S. wind power market,

Key challenges during three-day conference & expo

 

Houston, TX – The WINDPOWER 2008 Conference & Exhibition (www.windpowerexpo.org) brought together more than 12,000 wind industry leaders, policymakers and energy professionals on June 1-4 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, featuring over 770 exhibitors, including wind power plant developers, turbine manufacturers, and the full range of supply chain manufacturers. The WINDPOWER 2008 Conference & Exhibition is the world’s largest annual wind energy industry event, with three days of conference sessions, an interactive tradeshow of wind energy products and services, and numerous networking opportunities among leaders in all facets of the industry.

 Gathering in Texas—the nation’s No. 1 market for wind power—attendees learned about industry successes as well as actions needed to expand wind’s contribution to 20% of U.S. electricity supply by 2030—a level that a recent report by the U.S. Department of Energy says is technically and economically feasible (www.20percentwind.org). Texas has installed more wind energy and is planning more transmission infrastructure than any other state in the U.S. and has become a model of how to make wind energy work on a larger scale.

The Honorable Rick Perry, Governor of Texas provided the conference keynote address. Other speakers included  The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas; The Honorable Bill White, Mayor of Houston; Alexander Karsner, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy; General Wesley Clark, (ret.) Emergya Wind Technologies, B.V., Director and Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe;

The event also featured a concert by Lyle Lovett at Discovery Green, the newly constructed park across from the George R. Brown Convention Center.

TDLR announces exam changes

 

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) would like to announce some changes to the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractor examinations.

The most important change is that persons taking a class A examination will now have four hours to complete their 120 question exam. The other major exam change is to the content outline. Please view the old and new outlines contained in the Candidate Information Bulletin (CIB) on the TDLR web site:

 www.license.state.tx.us/acr/acrexams.htm .

 These changes became effective on July 1, 2008. No additional fee will be charged for the new examinations.