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Registration for MSCA Field Supervisors Training is Now Open

The 2019 Field Supervisors Training is scheduled for May 2-3 in Milwaukee, WI. This is an intensive two-day training program designed to give your service field supervisors (and your company) an edge in today’s tough market.

Focusing on training and improving the performance of service field supervisors, this program uses proven methods that will advance skills in leadership, coaching, planning, time management, communication, and motivational techniques, all of which will give the field supervisor an edge and the confidence to deal with the workplace challenges of today. The program covers a wide range of topics relevant to the needs of field supervisors, including transition to management, mentoring, delegation, the eight core values of a successful supervisor.

This is one of the most  popular courses that MSCA offers and it fills up fast!

You Can Still Register for MCAA19!

If you’ve been thinking about joining us for MCAA19, what are you waiting for? You can find all the event details and register online at our special MCAA19 website!

MCAA PAC Appreciates Your Support

Members of the MCA of Connecticut’s Board recently continued the long-standing tradition of Board support for the MCAA PAC. They join a long list of supporters who have provided funds to ensure that the MCAA PAC can continue its efforts to gain our members and our industry a fair hearing in federal public policy decisions.

Those supporting the MCAA PAC from January 1, 2018 – November 30, 2018 were:

  • Kristin Abrahamson
  • Anthony J. Ahern
  • John E. Ahern
  • John E. (Tripp) Ahern
  • Keith Atteberry
  • John Baker
  • Robert M. Berkmoes
  • Robert Bolton
  • John W. Brainerd, Jr.
  • James W. Bruner
  • Katherine & Todd Bruno
  • Pete Buongiorno
  • David G. Cannistraro
  • Joseph & Susan Cannistraro
  • Robert & Robin Carder
  • Don Chase
  • Jay Chase
  • Daniel Cheresko
  • Matt & Lori Clarke
  • Lonnie Coleman
  • Richard Cook
  • Steve Cornelius
  • Dennis G. Corrigan
  • Matt Cunningham
  • Steve Dawson
  • James Deflavio
  • Carl & Jackie Evans
  • Carl M. Evans
  • Mason & Mary Evans
  • John Feikema
  • Mark Felio
  • Robert Felix
  • Charles Fell
  • John & Valerie Ferrucci
  • Robert & Deborah Fisher
  • Christopher P. Fitch
  • James & Sara Ford
  • Steve Fosdick
  • Christopher J. Freeman
  • James P. Gaffney
  • Michael & Christine Gallagher
  • Don Giarratano
  • Jason Gordon
  • John Green
  • Jeffrey & Margery Grodsky
  • Carl Grolle
  • George Hamori
  • George Mulvaney Revocable Trust
  • Curtis Harbour
  • Kenneth Harbour
  • Brian Helm
  • Duane & Linda Hendricks
  • Jace & Rachel Hierlmeier
  • James & Lisa Hill
  • Todd Joseph Hoyt
  • Brian Hughes
  • James R. Jarvis
  • Scott E. Johnson
  • Armand H. Kilijian
  • Robert A. Lake, CPA
  • Scott & Rhonda Limbacher
  • Jay Lusita
  • William Lynch
  • Sheri L. McGinty-Flesher
  • John & Bridget McKenney
  • Beni Menaco
  • The Miles Family Revocable Trust
  • Barry Moore
  • Jose Moreno
  • Patrick & Laura Murphy
  • Clifton D. O’Donal
  • Randall Pagel, Sr.
  • Michael Reed
  • Glenn Rex
  • James R. Reynolds
  • Mark Rogers
  • Chris Saldecke
  • Richard J. Sawhill
  • Timothy & Jennifer Schneider
  • Robert Snyder, Jr.
  • Bryan Suttles
  • Krista & Raphael Tahlman
  • Kathleen & Timothy Taylor
  • Michael & Brenda Tobin
  • Lawrence Verne
  • Frank Wall
  • Thomas Wanner
  • Graham Williams
  • Paul & Jillian Wing
  • Adam & Paula Wunderlin

MCAA PAC appreciates your support.

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Need Bloodborne Pathogens Training for Your Team? Check Out this Video!

MCAA’s Bloodborne Pathogens Safety Training Video illustrates how observing basic precautions prevents the transmission of bloodborne pathogens and related diseases, such as Hepatitis B and HIV.

Your workers will learn to:

  • Identify potential high-exposure work tasks
  • Protect themselves before starting work or responding to an injury
  • Select and use appropriate personal protective equipment
  • Use appropriate procedures for clean-up
  • Properly handle contaminated equipment
  • Use proper personal hygiene practices to help prevent exposure

Download or play the video in English

Download or play the video in Spanish

There’s More…

Accompanying materials are also available to assist you in highlighting key training points, documenting worker training and confirming that workers understand the training concepts:

Highlight key training points

Download the Pocket Guide

Document worker training

Download the Documentation Sheet

Confirm that workers understand the training concepts

Download the Test

Download the Test Answer Key

Check Out this Related Resource

Download the Model Program

Want More Safety Resources?

MCAA has you covered, with a full range of resources to help you protect your workers from injury and comply with applicable safety regulations. Here’s where to find them:

On our Direct Links to MCAA & MSCA Safety Resources page, where they’re listed by category with links.

Go there now

In the Resource Center, where you can use the blue Refine Your Search bar to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for.

Visit the Resource Center

Have questions or need personal assistance?

Contact MCAA’s Pete Chaney.

Alfred State College Becomes MCAA’s Newest Student Chapter

MCAA would like to welcome their 59th student chapter, Alfred State College.

The Alfred State College MCAA Student Chapter is sponsored by the MCA of Rochester, New York. Erin Vitale, Chair of Civil Engineering Technology at the college, serves as the chapter’s faculty advisor. She helped lead the effort to get the chapter established and create student interest.

The chapter consists of Construction Management, Mechanical Engineering majors, and HVAC Associate Degree candidates. Their HVAC program involves the students in project-based learning and participation in real-world constructions projects, including installation of water, drain, heating and air conditioning systems.

The chapter will receive their charter at MCAA 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona during the Awards of Excellence Breakfast on Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

Congratulations and welcome!

Explore the Latest from EVAPCO, Inc., Winsupply and More in MCAA’s Virtual Trade Show

MCAA’s Virtual Trade Show connects our contractor members with the members of MCAA’s Manufacturer/Supplier Council.

Participating companies highlight and link to new products, product lines, services, solutions or web pages of particular interest. Here are just a few of the recent additions:

EVAPCO, Inc. MCAA Virtual Trade ShowEVAPCO, Inc.
Using the power of capacitive deionization technology, EVAPCO Water Saver makes it easy to improve your water efficiency, lower your operating costs, and deliver a recovery rate of up to 90 percent. EVAPCO even manages the system’s routine monitoring for you.

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Winsupply - MCAA Virtual Trade ShowWinsupply
Because we bring national buying strength to local support directly to you.

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Need Something Else?

Find many more smart solutions in MCAA’s Virtual Trade Show!

Visit the Virtual Trade Show

Speaking of Smart Solutions

Visit the Smart Solutions Case Studies area of our website to learn how other mechanical contractors found their win-win with cost-saving and productivity-enhancing applications from members of MCAA’s Manufacturer/Supplier Council.

This section of our website also includes tips and ideas to help your company save money and enhance your productivity. Don’t miss it!

VISIT SMART SOLUTIONS

MCAA Earns Prestigious Telly Award for Workplace Violence Prevention & Protection Video

MCAA recently learned that it earned a coveted 2018 Telly Award for its Workplace Violence Prevention and Protection safety training video. The video was developed and produced by MCAA to prepare pipefitters, plumbers, service technicians, fabrication shop workers, and office employees for the possibility of workplace violence.

The Telly Awards annually showcase the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. More than 12,000 entries were submitted from all 50 states and 5 continents. Telly Award winners represent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production companies and publishers from around the world. Past Telly Award winners include, Disney, ESPN, The History Channel, Microsoft, Fox, and HBO.

If you have not seen MCAA’s Workplace Violence Prevention and Protection video, MCAA urges you to watch it, and ensure that all your employees do too. To access the video, which is free to members as a benefit of membership, please visit the link below.

Download or Play the Video

Introducing the Management Methods Podcast

If you’ve ever wished there was a way to listen to Management Methods bulletins during your workout or commute, you’re in luck! The Management Methods Committee has just released its first podcast in conjunction with a new bulletin covering Business Transition Options for the Mechanical Contractor. The podcast is the latest innovation from the committee, which recently introduced WebBooks of its new bulletins.

This Management Methods Podcast is the first of a planned series that will include discussions with bulletin authors and bonus content that takes a deeper dive into the subject matter. Play the podcast and bonus content directly from the WebBook or get them via the iTunes or Google Play stores.

Have questions or need support? Contact us at ManagementMethods@mcaa.org.

Need Help Planning for Safe Rigging Operations? Get this Guide!

MCAA’s Rigging Safety Guide helps you deliver basic information about key safe rigging practices to keep your workers safe during rigging operations.

Your workers will learn how to:

  • Prevent rigging/lifting related injuries
  • Prevent damage to equipment, materials, and property
  • Perform their rigging responsibilities more efficiently

The guide walks through 10 rules for mechanical industry rigging safety, using illustrations to explain each rule. It also includes safety tips for common industry rigging applications, pre-lift reminders for riggers, and hand signals for crane operations.

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There’s More…

MCAA offers a safety training video on the topic of rigging safety and accompanying materials to assist you in highlighting key training points, documenting worker training and confirming that workers understand the training concepts. An Evaluator’s Guide to Qualified Riggers is also available.

Learn More

Want More Safety Resources?

MCAA has you covered, with a full range of resources to help you protect your workers from injury and comply with applicable safety regulations. Here’s where to find them:

On our Direct Links to MCAA & MSCA Safety Resources page, where they’re listed by category with links.

Go there now

In the Resource Center, where you can use the blue Refine Your Search bar to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for.

Visit the Resource Center

Have questions or need personal assistance?

Contact MCAA’s Pete Chaney.

Get Away to MCAA19

Wintry blasts already getting you down? Close your eyes and imagine the warm sun on your face, an endless sky above you, a club in your bag, a drink in your hand, and a breeze at your back – an oasis where you can learn, play, connect, and leave your worries behind. Come join us! See everything that MCAA19 has to offer and register online at our special MCAA19 website!

Know Your MCERF Board Members – Chris Catania

In each installment of this series, we will profile a member of the Mechanical Contracting Education & Research Foundation’s (MCERF) Board of Trustees. These volunteers represent the association’s contractor, service, and manufacturer/supplier members, as well as its local affiliates and academic advisers. They work behind the scenes providing resources to ensure MCAA’s success in meeting education and research challenges confronting its members.

Christopher J. Catania is Business Development Manager- Plumbing & Mechanical Trades at Bradford White Corporation. Chris was elected to the MCERF Board of Trustees in 2017.

A passionate Industry professional with several years of experience, Chris excels in sales, marketing and developing long term customer relationships.  In his role at Bradford White, Chris works closely with the Plumbing and Mechanical Trades to ensure they have the most current and thorough Water Heater & Boiler training and education programs available today.

“Succession planning is critical to the success and longevity of all Manufacturers, Contractors and Industry Organizations. We need to do a better job of attracting, educating and training young pre-professionals in our country about the quality career opportunities our industry provides. I’m honored to serve as an MCERF Trustee and excited to work alongside a diverse group of industry professionals committed to making our industry better.”

Chris also serves on the PCA Board and was recently selected by his peers as the “Chair Elect” of the MCAA Manufacturer / Suppliers Council Executive Committee.

For more information about MCERF, contact Dennis Langley.

New Products Will Be Unveiled at MCAA Tech Conference

New products can bring change to the industry.  This happens in one of two ways – evolutionary or revolutionary. Sometimes it is easy to spot the difference.  A new feature in software that can make the user interface easier is an evolutionary design. It makes the next incremental step in the process and while adding value and productivity, does so in a small way.

Revolutionary products can bring exponential change to the industry.  These are products that create new processes that eliminate old ones. An example of a revolutionary change would be the robotic total station.  Instead of tape measures and T-squares, total stations use BIM, control points and positioning lasers to accurately determine locations in a construction project today.  New processes are used entirely, but huge productivity gains are made.

While most evolutionary products that move the process forward are beneficial, revolutionary products that can bring exponential productivity increases are celebrated.  During the opening session of the MCAA Tech Conference, James Benham will present multiple products that can be classified as revolutionary. If there is one session that cannot be missed at the conference, it will be this one.

In order to showcase how these new products will impact MCAA members, James Benham will bring in the experts.  This will include contractors that have beta tested them, research teams that have evaluated them and the developers themselves who will provide demonstrations of their purpose.  Some of these new products will be available immediately, some later in the year, but all will have an impact on our industry.

To learn more or register for the conference, visit the MCAA Technology Conference Website.

Explore the Latest from MILWAUKEE TOOL, Viega, Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co. and More in MCAA’s Virtual Trade Show

MCAA’s Virtual Trade Show connects our contractor members with the members of MCAA’s Manufacturer/Supplier Council.

Participating companies highlight and link to new products, product lines, services, solutions or web pages of particular interest. Here are just a few of the recent additions:

MILWAUKEE TOOL MCAA Virtual Trade ShowMILWAUKEE TOOL
MILWAUKEE™ is committed to providing safe and versatile silica dust management solutions that help address the OSHA regulation on respirable crystalline silica dust (29 CFR 1926.1153). MILWAUKEE™ dust management solutions are focused on enhancing productivity. From the most universal dust extraction solutions fitting all major brands to a full range of products for floor-to-ceiling dust management, this is compliance made simple.

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Viega - MCAA Virtual Trade ShowViega
When it comes to your work, “good enough” isn’t good enough. With your reputation on the line, you don’t trust just any press system. You want the original ProPress®. Viega. Connected in quality.

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Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co.® a Member of Morris Group International MCAA Virtual Trade ShowJay R. Smith Mfg. Co.® a Member of Morris Group International
The Smith PVCeptor is easy to install, easy to clean, and provides maximum sanitation in kitchens, hospitals, and all food handling areas.

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Need Something Else?

Find many more smart solutions in MCAA’s Virtual Trade Show!

Visit the Virtual Trade Show

Speaking of Smart Solutions

Visit the Smart Solutions Case Studies area of our website to learn how other mechanical contractors found their win-win with cost-saving and productivity-enhancing applications from members of MCAA’s Manufacturer/Supplier Council.

This section of our website also includes tips and ideas to help your company save money and enhance your productivity. Don’t miss it!

VISIT SMART SOLUTIONS

Women Leaders Shape the Future of Women in the Mechanical Industry

Twenty-five of MCAA/MSCA’s top women leaders and manufacturer-supplier executives met this week in Arizona to shape the future of Women in the Mechanical Industry. Excitement was evident throughout the event as the attendees shared challenges and inspiring stories of success and accomplishments in their own businesses. Through brainstorming and strategic sessions, the attendees discussed an array of programming options to help women in the industry advance their careers, network, share resources and mentor young women entering the industry. Attendees left the event with a renewed sense of community and a new network of peers. Stay tuned for additional information about WiMI events and programs for the coming year.

MCAA19 Features Learning Opportunities for All

MCAA19 features something for everyone, whether you want to explore business topics in depth, learn from others’ experiences, find your path to retirement, or gain crucial knowledge to ensure your business succeeds in the coming year…and beyond! You can find all the event details and register online at our special MCAA19 website.

Mechanical Inc. Featured at Autodesk’s Connect & Construct Summit

Each year, as part of Autodesk’s annual education conference, Autodesk University, there is an optional session the first day that is geared towards the AEC industry called Connect & Construct. It features Autodesk’s corporate leaders like the new Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost talking about products designed for the construction industry as well as some of the industry’s leading innovators.

One such innovator featured this year was Travis Voss, Mechanical Inc’s Director of Technology.  Mr. Voss was part of the keynote address that included Dr. Peter Diamandis, a recent speaker at the MSCA Conference and MCAA Convention, and Lorien Barlow, the Documentary filmmaker behind a movie titled, Hard Hatted Woman.

During his keynote address, Travis spoke about Mechanical Inc.’s path to technology leadership, what his role as a Construction Technologist means and how collaboration and cooperation with other MCAA members through the Technology Committee has helped their company.

The video is available through Autodesk’s Online University through this link. Travis begins his presentation at the 45 minute mark.

Travis Voss will also be speaking at the MCAA Technology Conference in Tampa Bay, Florida on January 30- February 1.  His presentation will be part of a session titled, Next Generation Workflows, in which he will demonstrate how Mechanical Inc. has begun using augmented reality on the job site.

Know Your MCERF Board Members – Brian Caufield

In each installment of this series, we will profile a member of the Mechanical Contracting Education & Research Foundation’s (MCERF) Board of Trustees. These volunteers represent the association’s contractor, service, and manufacturer/supplier members, as well as its local affiliates and academic advisers. They work behind the scenes providing resources to ensure MCAA’s success in meeting education and research challenges confronting its members.

Brian Caufield is Vice President – Pipe, Valves, Fittings at Mueller Industries. He  joined the MCERF Board of Trustees in 2012. He is serving his third term as a Trustee, his first being the filling of an unexpired term of a fellow Trustee, who for business-related reasons, could not complete his term.

“I am proud to be serving as a Trustee on the Foundation.  Working with, and on behalf of, the Foundation has been very rewarding to me professionally and personally.  I am truly humbled to have been asked by the Foundation to serve multiple terms as it has allowed me the privilege to be part of the inception, creation and execution of some really exciting initiatives; the Internship Program and the Great Futures Forum to name just two.  I look forward to continuing to work with MCERF and its efforts to provide education and research to members of our industry.  It is our people, that at the end of the day, who are our greatest asset.”

Brian is a thirty plus year industry veteran with extensive experience in sales, marketing and customer relations.  He brings a passion and commitment to developing long term relationships with customers and peers in the industry.

For more information about MCERF, contact Dennis Langley.

Deadline for Milwaukee Tool Mechanical Industry Safety Professional of the Year Award Nominations is December 10

The Milwaukee Tool Mechanical Industry Safety Professional of the Year Award will be presented for the first time at MCAA19 in Phoenix, AZ. The annual award will be presented to a mechanical industry safety and health professional who has led his or her company to an exceptionally high degree of safety excellence.

To nominate someone from your company, or from another MCAA/MSCA member company, for this extremely prestigious award, complete the Nomination Form and e-mail it to Pete Chaney by the close of business on December 10, 2018.

MacMiller Sees Bright Future with XOi Vision

Within 90 days of adopting the XOi Vision™ platform’s field service management program See, MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions (MacMiller) landed a huge national account, based in part on the company’s use of video technology. With See, MacMiller technicians can easily link video and photos to customer accounts through mobile devices.

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Looking for More Smart Solutions?

Visit the Smart Solutions Case Studies area of our website! You’ll see how other mechanical contractors found their win-win with productivity-enhancing and cost-saving applications from members of MCAA’s Manufacturer/Supplier Council.

Plus, you’ll find tips and ideas on other ways you and your company can save money and enhance your productivity.

VISIT SMART SOLUTIONS