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With less than a month until Election Day, the 2024 presidential race remains tightly contested, with the outcome likely hinging on several key battleground states. Recent polling shows both Vice President Harris and former President Trump neck and neck nationally and in critical swing states. Each campaign is deploying significant resources to these pivotal states, recognizing that the electoral map is narrower than ever.  

Ed Janowiak reflects on an enlightening experience at the Westford Symposium, where Today’s Building Science’s Greg Stockton’s thought-provoking, evidence-backed question sparked a valuable conversation about good HVACR system design.

ACCA member John Ambrosino will travel to California next month as a voting member on a codes committee. His participation will be critical to ACCA’s interest in developing sensible GFCI protection requirements that will reduce nuisance trips on HVACR equipment and components.   

Just recently, a federal judge in the Dallas area permanently enjoined the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) effort to enact a rule which would have prohibited non-competition agreements across the United States. Using its rule-making authority, the FTC had attempted a nation-wide ban on non-compete agreements between employers and employees as anti-competitive. 

With workforce issues continuing to burden contracting businesses, ACCA works hard to promote legislation that encourages more students to consider careers in the trades. 

In 2023, ACCA staff and leaders came together to develop the association’s latest 3-year strategic plan. Our staff and leaders emerged with an energized purpose, mission, and vision. We’ve been working hard during the first half of 2024 to start down the path toward these goals.

The HVACR industry is on the brink of a significant change with the transition to A2L refrigerants. As a contractor, staying ahead of this shift is crucial for your business’s success and compliance.    Here are three essential things you need to know about the A2L refrigerant transition. 

This blog is another take on a vital conversation that needs to be discussed with your customers, how the system is going to perform. Many customers are used to oversized equipment that can quickly drop the temperature in their house (and leave them feeling uncomfortable because it’s humid). It’s vital to have “the talk” when you’re sitting at the kitchen table. If you have “the talk” now, you won’t have the callbacks later.

ACCA partner Grant Cardone is proud to announce the 10X Home Services Bootcamp, a two-day immersive experience designed to equip home service professionals with practical business scaling strategies.

One of ACCA’s roles is to support sensible code changes that promote safety and improve our environment and fight the bad code changes that create chaos for our contractors. The members of ACCA’s Codes Subcommittee are dedicated to advise staff to achieve this goal. We are happy to report another recent code hearing that resulted in achieving this goal.  Login to read more.

Are you looking to make a positive impact on the HVACR industry? ACCA has a volunteer role for you!   ACCA’s committee structure is designed to encourage members to actively play a role in how ACCA works. There are five main committees that work with ACCA staff to develop and produce resources, events, products, and services that help contractors and their teams stay at the forefront of the industry and ahead of their competition.   Learn how you can get involved in this article published in the May/June edition of ACCA Now. 

Contractors excited to inform their customers about the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) $8.8 billion in rebates for residential energy efficiency improvements may have to wait a little longer as states take a deliberate approach towards developing programs that will vary greatly from state to state.   Learn more from one of the latest ACCA Now articles. 

In the HVACR industry, it’s all too common to hear comments about ductwork being too big or too small based solely on appearance. Similarly, there are far too many comments that a system will never condition a space properly just by looking at it. While everyone is entitled to their opinion, there is a significant difference between opinions based on expectations and those grounded in precise measurements.