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There’s been a fair amount of talk and confusion about which refrigerants the industry will use in the wake of recent regulation changes.

UMC’s story began in 1920 when two brothers — Frank and William Granston — opened University Plumbing and Heating right next to the University of Washington. The company grew steadily, becoming a general purpose mechanical contracting firm in the 1960s and changing its name to University Mechanical Contractors. In the same decade, UMC handled all the plumbing and mechanical work for the Space Needle, which was built from the ground up in a staggering 400 days for the 1962 World’s Fair.

Like CAD (Computer Aided Design) before it, Building Information Modeling (BIM) was a revolutionary advancement in the construction industry, allowing designers and engineers to model an entire 3D structure, fully loaded with data to a degree that even the smallest change in the model is automatically accounted for and adjusted model-wide. BIM allows architects, structural engineers, project managers and contractors to collaborate through every step of a construction process in ways that were largely impossible before.

This is summary of the code corner newsIt’s no secret that construction workers are regularly exposed to a variety of safety risks and jobsite dangers. Topping the list are physical hazards, like falls, struck by/caught between accidents and electrocutions. But did you know workers in our industry also face an increased risk of experiencing mental health disorders?

Let’s look at colors, for example. What did you see the last time you walked down the power tool aisle at a hardware store? Black and yellow — DEWALT. Red — Milwaukee. Blue and Red — Bosch. You knew which company’s tools you were looking at before you read a word because those brands chose an impactful color scheme and used it across everything they put out into the world. You want this kind of brand recognition.

This is summary of the code corner news

This is summary of the code corner news

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The Heavy Metal Summer Experience (HMSE) is heating up, with nearly 40 camps across the U.S. and Canada in the summer of 2024.