The
Radiant Panel Association Annual Conference proclaims radiant heating has always
been green, and the REX Trade Show aisles are filling up with many new and existing companies eager to display the latest
in heating technology.
Murray Supply Co. (Winston-Salem, NC) honored Walt Murray, who
founded the company in 1963 with his father, Craig V. Murray Sr., at a
company-wide recognition dinner in February.
The
economic burden of providing health insurance for workers increased more for
small businesses than for large ones from 2000 to 2005, but the spike did not
cause a significant number of small employers to abandon the benefit.
U.S. factory shipments of residential cooling
and heating equipment declined in February, compared with the same month a year
ago, while the commercial market for these products maintained steady growth,
according to AHRI.
Two
recently released studies, one by the New Buildings Institute and one by CoStar
Group, have validated what the green building community has known all along:
third-party-certified buildings outperform their conventional counterparts
across a wide variety of metrics.