SILVER SPRING, MD. — Discovery Communications and Mike Rowe, creator, executive producer and host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, recently announced "Discover Your Skills," a new multimedia public affairs campaign designed to address the growing decline in U.S. skilled labor expertise. The goal of "Discover Your Skills" is to provide unemployed and underemployed Americans with access to critical resources for obtaining marketable job skills and expertise, and to raise awareness of career opportunities.
Rowe testified at the invitation of Senator Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, at a hearing titled "Manufacturing Our Way to a Stronger Economy" on Wednesday, May 11. He related his experiences over the past seven years on Dirty Jobs, apprenticing alongside more than 300 skilled labor workers in nearly every industry and every state, and witnessing the critical role these workers and their occupations play in supporting the U.S. economy.
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BY DAVE YATES
"Help — our water heater is leaking and we need an estimate for a new one."
In addition, a few questions during the phone call revealed they would be interested in pricing for a new furnace and central air conditioning. This is a new potential customer who was referred by a friend of theirs who is a customer — the best kind of introduction.
The water heater was leaking, just not internally. It was an indirect-vent, exhaust only vented to the outdoors, natural-gas model with a very long run of 3-in. PVC that wrapped around two sides of their basement. The indirect vent line was pitched back towards the water heater: a condensate-drain tee with its loop of ½-in. OD vinyl tubing coiled to create a liquid trap was installed just before the exhaust turned down to meet the water heater’s draft-inducer fan.
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ATLANTA – Ensuring the welcome mat is always out for energy efficient homes is the goal of a standard being revitalized by ASHRAE and IES.
ANSI/ASHRAE/IES (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America) Standard 90.2, Energy Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings, provides minimum requirements for the energy-efficient design of residential buildings. ASHRAE and IES joined forces last year to increase the efficiency of the standard’s requirements.
Now the two organizations are seeking input into a draft of the standard. The standard is open for an advisory public review May 13 until June 12, 2011.
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ROCKVILLE, MD—As the use of building information modeling (BIM) continues to grow, the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) has expanded its course offerings on the topic. The latest in a series of BIM courses, BIM Contracts & Risk Allocation for Mechanical Contractors will explore the legal liabilities and contractual quicksand mechanical contractors are likely to encounter on BIM projects and how to avoid both.
The day-long course will be held Monday, October 17, 2011 in Baltimore, MD. Among other things, the course will assist contractors in learning how to manage the emerging risks associated with the electronic representation and transmission of project data.
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