The AHR Expo is billed as the largest and most comprehensive HVAC&R event in the world. Attendees — contractors, engineers, facility managers, OEMs, and just about anyone in the HVAC&R industries — come for educational sessions, workshops, seminars, and product demos. What the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is for tech nerds, the AHR is for HVAC pros. Here’s a rundown of some of the highlights thus far: LG Bringing Greener HVAC Products to Market. Clean Tech HVAC AC AHR Expo 2012 air conditioning clean tech cooling Ecobee LG refrigeration Tecogen MORE >>

One of the biggest: the field service and HVAC sectors, according to Mike Moore , Director of Training and one of the founders of  HVAC Learning Solutions. An experienced trainer of technicians and managers alike, Moore explains the problems facing HVAC firms looking for talent, and what the industry as a whole needs to do to remedy the situation. How do things look these days for hiring managers in the HVAC industry? So subsequently, the age of technicians in the HVAC industry is older. Read more about HVAC Jobs on The SmartVan. MORE >>

Yet here’s yet another example of an iPad app that will make service in the field a bit easier, this time for HVAC contractors. Cloud Computing Field Service HVAC ACCA field service iPadThe phrase “there’s an app for that&# is so ubiquitous it’s almost a punchline these days. An estimated 300 million tablets will be sold by 2015 , so it’s no wonder enterprise apps are growing by leaps and bounds. This week, the Air Conditioning Contractors of America announced the launch of ACCA DuctWheel, the trade association’s first iPad app. exible ducts. MORE >>

At The SmartVan we’re always checking out the latest HVAC news — by the way, be sure to check out our one-of-a-kind news section , featuring all the important field service headlines of the day in one place — and the amount of news about HVAC firms is almost as overwhelming as the heat in some places. Temps in the upper 90′s in Oklahoma City have local HVAC firms’ phones ringing off the hook. Most of the increased HVAC business isn’t the purchasing of new AC units, rather the maintenance and repair of existing units. The U.S. MORE >>

This is the same concept with HVAC noise complaints … kind of. Field Service HVAC field service Noise ComplaintsWhen it comes to noise complaints, you have one chance to get it resolved … if you’re lucky. The reason? People seem to be programmed to listen for sounds that annoy them; the old saying “waiting for the other shoe to drop&# is a perfect example of this. Realizing they had probably woken someone, they would very quietly remove the second shoe. They were expecting the noise to happen again, and couldn’t sleep until it happened. MORE >>