Articles by Jim Olsztynski

Industry analysts are surprised by continued market strength.

Subcontractors' entrepreneurial wanderlust is threatening the industry.

Blue Dot., which started out as ServiCenter USA, is a roll-up consolidator with a different twist.

Asbestos abatement has cost an estimated $50 billion and counting, all to remove a threat that doesn't exist.

Acquisitions are making it hard to tell who's who among the industry players.

PSI has an anticipated life of no more than three years and aims to sign up 1 percent of the residential service sector.

Contractors and clients are like ships passing in the night in their perspective of customer service.

It’s a good time of year to put aside negative thoughts about all the problems of our industry.

It was the first convention in which the Mechanical Contractors Association of America and the United Association had a joint meeting of their executive committees.

The logic of consolidation is that the whole ought to be greater than the sum of its parts.