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Bob Mader died unexpectedly in his home Feb. 22 at the age of 65.

All leaders and all people have a silent enemy: Mediocrity

We’re only human, and most humans like to put off things until they absolutely have to be done. 

As global energy planning moves away from fossil fuels and toward electricity, an increasing number of hydronic heating systems are being supplied by heat pumps. 

You may think you are too small to have a fleet manager, or so big you need a full-time fleet manager, and neither of those things is necessarily true.

Figure 1 shows the piping layout for an actual installation. It uses two boilers, fired in stages, to supply three areas of a building. 

“Anything worth doing is worth doing right.”

That’s the slogan of Pataskala, Ohio-based Crawford Mechanical Services (CMS). 

Water is a precious and increasingly scarce resource.