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[Editor’s Page] Today’s Word: Taking One Small Step … Celebrating 50 years of Excellence
High-Performance Product Reviews
Why SBA Borrowing Differentiates Your Performance-Based Business
Differentiate Your Business: Turn Data into Dollars
Build Success Through Fully Engaged Employees
Five Ways to Spot a Bad Duct Traverse
Photo of the Month
NCI Member Update
[Publisher’s Page] One More Thing: Baby Steps!
[editor’s page] Taking One Small Step … Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence
Several weeks ago, the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Yes, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong uttered the most famous words of the 20th Century as he became the first human to set foot on the moon.
Think about it. In the HVAC arena, many of the digital instruments you use to measure and test the systems are born from Apollo technological advances.
High-Performance Product Reviews
Written by HVAC Professionals for HVAC Professionals
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“Nothing is more important than keep-ing yourself safe on the job and every-where you go. That is why I recommend you carry the Ensorcon Industrial Pro Personal CO Safety Monitor. It only has to save your life once to demon-strate its value.” – Jim Davis |
“If you are looking for your next voltmeter, consider some features built into this compact multimeter. It can help you collect additional data to diagnose and communicate performance issues.” – Justin Bright |
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Why SBA Borrowing is Important to Your Performance-Based Business
Any service and replacement HVAC company is a great business to own and operate, but a High-Performance contracting firm has so many differentiating aspects that it can truly be a dominant force in any marketplace.
Like any small business, it is just good pratice to maintain a line of credit or access to money or loans to capitalize acquisitions.’ Learn how SBA (Small Business Administration) loans may help you maximize your leverage.
Differentiate Your Business By Turning Data Into Dollars
To provide the high-performance customer service levels your customer deserves, you must be able to consistently do the things that keep them safe, healthy, comfortable, and energy efficient all year round. It’s your job to alert and educate them of pending trouble before it becomes an emergency. This is the professional way to WOW your customers and earn premium profits for the premium products your team delivers.’
Let’s find out how to turn your data into dollars…
Building Success Through Fully Engaged Employees
The HVAC industry has struggled to keep up with a shortage of qualified employeeds for many years.’ With projected continued growth, the gap between supply and demand will only increase.’ So now is the time to be proactive and develop a strategy to retain good employees once you find them.’ Improving employee engagement can help make your company a place where people want to work.
More than a quarter of your workforce may have essentially ‘checked out’ and that can have a pretty destructive impact on your business.
Five Ways to Spot a Bad Duct Traverse
In the world of Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing (TAB) airflow in commercial rooftop units (RTU), fans, and so on, there is a wide debate on which testing method to use. There are, in fact, two methods – Log Tchebycheff (Log-T) and Equal Area Method traverse ‘ and the debate centers around which is the most accurate. Most TAB professionals will say that either method is acceptable, but only one of them should be used on any particular job.
My purpose here isn’t to continue this debate. Instead, I want to highlight the impact of improper methods and/or inadequate documentation that can complicate results, no matter which method is used. There are a few clear indicators of this that I’ve encountered hundreds of times over the years.
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Photo of the Month
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Member Update
Learn about this months NCI Member-Only PowerPack contains.’ We’re highlighting how to help integrate testing and diagnostics into your company culture.’
Are part of the Trailblazer Coaching yet?’ Read about what some fellow members say about this exciting monthly coaching program.
And finally, did you know that there are new online training modules available?’ And as a member you save even more on NCI’s already cost-effective online training modules.
[Publisher’s page] Baby Steps!
At least once a week I talk to an HVAC con-tractor who has taken NCI training and is trying to figure out how to integrate measured performance into his or her business. NCI’s dozens of instructors and customer support staff get similar questions every day.
Many of the contractors we talk to have made significant strides in the first two areas. They have a pretty good grasp of the technical knowledge to test, diagnose, and improve systems. Many have the tools and instruments to get the job done. However, most share that their biggest weaknesses are lack of systems and processes.