• What is the Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) Industry?
• What is Plumbing?
• What is Pipefitting
• Why is HVACR Important?
• Why Should I be Interested in a Career in the HVACR Industry?

What is the Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) Industry?

The HVACR industry manages indoor environments. The HVACR industry designs, builds, installs, services, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs indoor comfort and cooling systems year-round.

The HVACR industry is a $150 billion a year business nationally and employs millions of people around the globe.

The HVACR industry provides solutions to many important environmental issues such as indoor air quality and protecting the ozone layer through proper refrigerant handling.

What is Plumbing?

PLUMBERS install and repair pipes that carry water, waste, drainage, and natural gas in buildings. They cut, bend, and join pipes; and they install fixtures and appliances, such as bathtubs, toilets, dishwashers, and water heaters. They work from blueprints and drawings that show them where to put the pipes and fixtures.

What is Pipefitting?

Pipefitters work on large industrial piping systems that carry steam, gases, and chemicals that supply power, heating, or refrigeration. Pipefitters may be known by the type of systems on which they specialize such as "gas fitter' or steamfitters."

Why is HVACR Important?

Homes, office buildings, industrial plants, airplanes, cars and computer technology all rely on complex HVACR systems to create and maintain safe, healthy and comfortable living and working environments.

Many industrial, medical, technical and commercial processes also depend on sophisticated heating, cooling air quality and ventilation systems.

HVACR people are problem solvers - experts who contribute to making equipment work better, more efficiently, quicker and less expensively.

Why Should I be Interested in a Career in the HVACR Industry?

HVACR is a necessity today for personal comfort, medical health, food preservation, water supply and work productivity. In fact, all human activities rely on HVACR in one way or another. This industry will produce thousands of new jobs in the next decades as market for these products expand.

The HVACR industry also offers variety, job security, respect, upward mobility, great salary, life long employment, and opportunity. HVACR professionals can use their skills in just about anyplace in the world.

HVACR is a high technology industry with constant innovations that contribute to making the equipment work better, more efficiently, quicker and less expensively.