One of the Midwest's largest mechanical contractors, J.F. Ahern Co., Fond du Lac, Wis., will be celebrating 125 years in business with a number of anniversary events scheduled throughout the year.
Total construction needed between 2000 and 2030 to accommodate growth projections will amount to roughly 210 billion sq. ft. or 70 percent of existing built space.
Burnham Hydronics, Lancaster, Pa., hosted an editor's conference in September to highlight a recent multimillion-dollar investment to improve the company's manufacturing capacity, stock inventory, and also announce a new parts service and several new products.
Sprinkler retrofits are, by nature, difficult jobs even in the best of circumstances. But even those "best of circumstances" don't come any more challenging than when the retrofit is for an historic building.
