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  • Keep customers out of the Yellow Pages




  • New study: green building will support 8 million U.S. jobs




  • PHCC helps renovate flood-damaged New Orleans home




  • USGBC’s Greenbuild Conference opens with celebration at Chase Field




  • VSC Corp. and its subsidiaries merge to create VSC Fire & Security Inc.




  • EMCOR's charity golf tourney raises $85K




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    November 17, 2009

    Keep customers out of the Yellow Pages

    By Matt Michel
    Whatever your opinion is on the Yellow Pages as a way to get new customers, you probably want to keep existing customers away from the Yellow Pages and all of your competitors' ads. Here are eight simple ways to keep them out of the Yellow Pages.

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    New study: green building will support 8 million U.S. jobs

    PHOENIX — Despite a challenging economic outlook, green building will support 7.9 million U.S. jobs and pump $554 billion into the U.S. economy, including $396 billion in wages over the next four years, according to a new study from the U.S. Green Building Council and Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm. The study was released at USGBC’s annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, the industry’s largest gathering of representatives from all sectors of the green building movement.

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    PHCC helps renovate flood-damaged New Orleans home

    New Orleans — Forty members of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors — National Association participated in a day of service, this October, in conjunction with the PHCC annual convention, CONNECT 2009, here.

    Through a partnership with Rebuilding Together New Orleans (RTNO), p-h-c contractors, spouses and staff helped renovate the exterior of a mid-city home that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina.


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    USGBC’s Greenbuild Conference opens with celebration at Chase Field

    PHOENIX — The U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference & Expo opened the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 11, at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, when David Kohler, president and chief operating officer of Kohler Co., and USGBC President, CEO and Founding Chair Rick Fedrizzi spoke to an audience of more than 28,000, stressing the importance of green building.

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    VSC Corp. and its subsidiaries merge to create VSC Fire & Security Inc.

    RICHMOND, VA. — VSC Corp. and its subsidiaries, including Virginia Sprinkler Company Inc., Virginia Fire Protection Inc., Industrial Fire & Safety Inc., Davy Fire Protection, Precision Sprinkler Co., Southeastern Fire Control Inc., Virginia Sprinkler Co. Inspections Services Inc. and Worsham Sprinkler Co. Inc., have recently merged to create VSC Fire & Security Inc., a privately held company, providing integrated fire protection, life safety and security solutions for and inspections of fire suppression, fire detection, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and security systems in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions.

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    EMCOR's charity golf tourney raises $85K

    ORLANDO, FL – Bill Dillard, founder and CEO of EMCOR Services Mechanical Services, Inc. (MSI), recently presented a $85,500 check to Frontline Outreach, Inc. President Arto Woodley, Jr., during ceremonies at the 25th Annual MSI-Frontline Outreach Golf Tournament Benefit held October 16 at Orange County National Golf Center & Lodge in Orlando, Florida.

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