HVAC Jobs on the Rise

The employment numbers may be grim in the middle of the largest financial crisis in decades, but in the HVAC market things are looking up. Way up. According to various sources—such as the two listed below, one a press release and the other a major study by a respected organization—HVAC professionals will be in high demand for a very long time to come. Or at least it’s possible, since the financial-economic crisis may be hastening the elevation of energy efficiency from luxury to necessity. And who is going to design, build, install, service, and maintain these energy efficient systems? Who is going to perform the necessary retrofits with their associated maintenance and service? In these issues and more, in the HVAC arena and elsewhere, opportunity is knocking.

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Ferris State University Students Learn From Trane How Green Building Can Reduce Largest Global Warming Culprit – MarketWatch (PR Newswire), October 22, 2008

On October 23 students at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan heard a presentation about the way green building techniques can reduce the carbon footprint of buildings. It was delivered by Chris Comperchio, business leader for Trane, the commercial and residential air-conditioning giant. He was also scheduled to meet with leaders of various engineering student organizations to talk about changing job market conditions. For this PR Newswire story, Comperchio pointed out the fact that the HVAC industry workforce is aging rapidly, which means “The skills these students can bring to the marketplace are more important than ever before. Over the next decade we expect double-digit growth in the demand for HVAC professionals.”

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Green Recovery: A New Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy – The Center for American Progress, September 2008

The Center for American Progress has released a report titled “Green Recovery” that focuses on the fact of the current financial crisis and accompanying economic downturn and argues that this all represents a vital opportunity to transform America’s energy economy and end up in better shape than we started out. Specifically, in the words of the detailed abstract, the report “demonstrates how a new Green Recovery program that spends $100 billion over two years would create 2 million new jobs, with a significant proportion in the struggling construction and manufacturing sectors.” Recommendations include the funding of “six energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies,” one of which is “retrofitting buildings to increase energy efficiency.” The text of the report itself, available in a freely downloadable, 42-page PDF, goes into more detail: “The most obvious option for rapid green investment in communities is a large-scale building retrofit program, which would rely entirely on known technolo¬gies such as high-performance windows, efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, geothermal heat¬ing and cooling systems, efficient light¬ing and day-lighting, building-integrated photovoltaic-powered energy, and the installation of efficient appliances.”

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