< PreviousHVAC SMART MART 20 MARCH 2024HIGH-PERFORMANCE HVAC TODAYAD INDEX MARCH 2024 21HVACTODAY.COM HIGH-PERFORMANCE HVAC TODAY TM Publisher Dominick Guarino Editor-in-Chief Mike Weil Art Director Judy Marquardt Online Development Director Brian Roseman Circulation Manager Andrea Begany-Garsed To Subscribe to High-Performance HVAC Today: ONLINE: Visit HVACToday.com/subscribe for a FREE digital subscription. PRINT: 1 year/$72; single copy $7. Canada: 1 year/$92; single copy $9. Payable in advance with U.S. funds. Prepaid subscriptions may be sent to: High-Performance HVAC Today, PO Box 147, Avon Lake, OH 44012. Phone: 440-949-1850; toll free 800-633-7058; or visit HVACToday.com/subscribe to order online. Go to ncilink.com/ContactMe with your comments and questions. 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Michel Company | www.REMichel.com .......................................................................... 18 Sauermann | www.sauermanngroup.com ............................................................................ 13 TEC (The Energy Conservatory) | www.energyconservatory.com ............................... 18 To Your Success | www.ToYourSuccess.com .......................................................................... 20 TruTech Tools | www.TruTechTools.com .............................................................................17, 20This is not to take away from other industry association meetings and best-practice events. What’s different about the participants is they are not necessarily part of a formal group or asso- ciation, rather they are a bunch of folks from all walks of life who want to be together and learn from one another at a deep technical level. CHECK OUT SYMPOSIUM If you aren’t already familiar, I encourage you to learn more about Symposium. Here is a link to the website, where you can also get access to a virtual version of the workshops and sessions: ncilink.com/5thAnnualSymposium. By the way, you’ll also see information on HVAC School on this site, which was created by founder, Bryan Orr, president of Kalos Services. The free website contains hundreds of lessons, podcasts, webinar-like sessions, and more. SEE YOU AT SUMMIT! These types of educational events, podcasts, and websites are exactly what our industry needs to grow and move forward together. NCI’s Summit, which is now in its 21st year, is where like-minded High-Performance HVAC™ contractors meet to learn and share their chal- lenges and successes. In case you are wondering, Summit 2024 reg- istration is open. It takes place from September 10-13 in Asheville, SC. We are putting the finish- ing touches on the Agenda and Schedule which will soon be available at GoToSummit.com. But don’t wait, register today to secure your spot in what is shaping up to be our best Sum- mit ever! Congratulations to Bryan Orr and his team for a job well done this year. Our industry needs more leaders like you! I recently returned from a great conference at- tended by HVAC and home performance pro- fessionals. It is called the HVACR Train- ing Symposium. This forward-thinking event brought together contractors, technicians, and other professionals to learn and share. Their event covers fundamentals and advanced design and diagnostics aimed at helping to create a higher level of indoor comfort and performance. The Symposium, now in its fifth year, which took place last month in Clermont, Florida, has often been referred to as an HVAC practitioner Woodstock. If you’re too young to know what Woodstock was, you may want to Google it! This great meeting featured indoor and out- door sessions in Kalos Services’ warehouses, and under tents. Topics included HVAC design, the interactions between a home and its comfort sys- tem, carbon monoxide and combustion, airflow, refrigeration, heat pump technology, indoor air quality, building science, and so much more. TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN A number of us from NCI presented sessions and participated in panel discussions. What struck me the most about the event was the sim- ilar intensity and passion of the contractors and professionals who attend NCI’s High-Perfor- mance HVAC Summit. While the two conferences are structured very differently, with Summit focusing more on exe- cution of NCI-specific approaches, these events share the same goal: to raise the bar for our in- dustry. In many ways the two meetings can be lik- ened to two different sides of the same coin. As a 30+ year veteran of the HVAC industry, it’s exciting to witness this. Like Summit, the Sympo- sium is based on education, and looking forward to where we are going and where we need to be. 22 MARCH 2024HIGH-PERFORMANCE HVAC TODAY ONE MORE THING... By Dominick Guarino HVACR Symposium Knocks it Out of the Park! Dominick Guarino is publisher of High-Performance HVAC Today magazine and President & CEO of National Comfort Institute, Inc. He can be reached at ncilink. com/ContactMe . MARCH 2024 23HVACTODAY.COMNext >