INDUSTRY NEWS Lochinvar® announces winner of VIP Installation Showcase
LEBANON, TENN.— Lochinvar Corporation announced that Nathan White of White’s Plumbing & Heating in Kenai, AK has been named the grand prize winner in the 2010-2011 VIP Installation Showcase. In addition, four other VIP Contractors have been recognized as this year’s finalists for their impressive entries and outstanding accomplishments. The annual VIP Installation
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Showcase, which kicks off in November and runs through March, offers enrolled contractors the opportunity to compete on a monthly basis to showcase their installations of Lochinvar boilers at
www.knightheatingboiler.com. After the entries are reviewed by a panel of Lochinvar judges, one contractor each month is awarded a $250 prize. From these monthly finalists, one
contractor is selected as the overall grand prize winner, earning a spot on Lochinvar’s “King’s Court” rewards trip. As this year’s grand prize winner, White will join nine other VIPs, each of whom is selected based on exemplary performance, for an all- expenses-paid, three-day trip to Nashville, TN for the CMA Music Festival, a tour of the Jack Daniels
Distillery and a visit to Lochinvar headquarters for a roundtable discussion. White’s grand prize-winning entry,
which was originally recognized as the monthly winner in March, outlined a recent installation of a radiant heating system at an area residence. This high-efficiency system features a KNIGHT Heating Boiler® and a Squire™ Indirect Water Heater. While this marks White’s first grand prize award in the VIP Installation Showcase, he has been selected as a finalist in 2008 and 2009 as well. Founded in 1977, White’s Plumbing & Heating specializes in residential and light commercial plumbing and heating. “I’m honored to be chosen as the
grand prize winner of this year’s VIP Installation Showcase,” said White.
“Lochinvar is known for being a leader in innovation, and I take great pride in the fact that they’ve recognized this installation as the best of the year.” The four other finalists, each of
whom was named as a monthly winner in the 2010-2011 VIP Installation Showcase, included:
• Kevin Vail of Team Vail, Inc.
(Oakdale, MN) — November winner; • David Dill of Western Montana
Plumbing & Heating (Missoula, MT) — December winner; • Derek Lee of Lee Plumbing &
Heating, Inc. (Thief River Falls, MN) — January winner; and • Don Headrick of Custom Gas &
Mechanical LLC (Boise, ID) — February winner.
MCAA course to explore BIM contracts & risk allocation
ROCKVILLE, MD.— The Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) has expanded its BIM course offerings. 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. 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. David Morris, director of
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Virtual Construction for EMCOR, is the lead instructor. He has more than 30 years of experience performing and directing all phases of piping and mechanical systems. His
current duties include improving BIM processes and sharing best detailing and virtual design practices across the 80 EMCOR group companies. He will be joined by Frank
Musica, a senior risk management attorney for Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc.,
which he joined in 1991 to assist the program in identifying the transformations in construction- related professional services, the liability exposures created by contractual language, legislation, regulations and court rulings, and management processes and procedures to reduce the risk profiles of firms. He crafts risk management and serial publications and website information for Schinnerer design professionals insurance programs and contractors design liability insurance programs with CNA, which is sponsoring the program as part of their extensive, ongoing support for MCAA.
phc june 2011
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