According to Forbes, the occupancy rate among US multi-family housing units rose to 96.9 percent in mid-2021, and the trend has continued post-pandemic. With real-estate prices increasing sharply and rent costs reaching all-time highs, there’s more incentive than ever to renovate, update and repurpose commercial and light commercial facilities, whether properties include multi-tenant housing, mixed Read more
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Pfister® Faucets, a trusted leader in the plumbing industry since 1910, is kicking off Season 4 of American Plumber Stories, a popular docuseries that features the lives of plumbers throughout the U.S. A new generation is seeing the plumbing trades with new eyes. Now, in its fourth season, the wildly successful American Plumber Stories docuseries Read more
Mary-Anne Bowcott (@the_ladyplumber) is a testament to perseverance and hard work. In a male-dominant industry, now a successful business owner, she is blazing the trail for women to look at trades in a different light. Mary-Anne Bowcott has come a long way from the days of living on a farm— which housed a few hundred Read more
Mechanical Hub’s John Mesenbrink pent the day at UA’s annual Instructor Training Program in Ann Arbor, Mich. Tom Bigley, director of plumbing services, UA, was my gracious host. As a first time attendee, I was super impressed with the event, from the classrooms to the training truck labs to the apprenticeship contests. The video below Read more
Oatey Co. recently sponsored a plumbing day at Northeast Ohio Let’s Build Construction Camp for Girls, a program for middle-school-aged and high-school-aged girls to attend a free week-long camp to explore the construction trades, architecture, engineering, and construction manufacturing through hands-on experiences and field trips. As a Premier Sponsor of the program, Oatey’s Women’s Resource Read more