The Professional HVAC Technician: Now Available

The ESCO Institute is pleased to announce a new training resource, “The Professional HVAC Technician” written by Ned Hart.

What skills do Master HVAC technicians think every new technician should have? What skills do new technicians have difficulty with once on their own working in the field??To find out, we tracked 700 newly trained HVAC technicians over a 10-year period and discovered the troubleshooting issues they most commonly had problems solving.?We also interviewed dozens of master technicians with more than 30 years' experience each and compiled a list of facts they thought every new technician should know.?Not surprising was that the two lists were synonymous.?This incredible database of knowledge has been compiled into this book, “The Professional HVAC Technician", a must-have reference book for new and experienced technicians alike.??

Tricks of the trade, explanations of why things work the way they do, as well as hands-on techniques for solving the problems encountered in daily work in the HVAC industry.?For new technicians, this book gives a real-world view into what difficulties they are actually going to encounter once employed in the industry and how to solve them.?For instructors, it provides an invaluable guide for focusing classroom and lab discussions to problem areas most encountered by their students once in the workforce.?For any instructor struggling with how to "fill the time" in school, this text completely solves that issue with hundreds of photos of the actual problems encountered by technicians in the field along with a complete explanation of how these problems were overcome.?

Registered proctors can review a digital version of the manual by logging in and visiting the resource center. Others, can view a sample of the book here.

Instructor Resources

For instructors that incorporate the manual into their training, a PowerPoint with images from each chapter, appendix articles, and other resources is available. The PowerPoint includes all the photos from the book plus additional photos not in the text. Also included in the Instructor Resource package are Exam View test banks with 500 unique questions as well as a photo index to help you find exactly what you're looking for throughout the 480 photos.

The?“The Professional HVAC Technician” is available for $74.95 by?visiting escogroup.org and then click the?shop?button.?

About the Author?

Mr. Hart has been a technician instructor for the last 18 years working in the field and the classroom with thousands of students, installing over 500 furnace & AC systems in commercial and residential locations as part of field training with students. ?

His credentials include:?

• Program Chair HVAC Department Fortis College for 11 years
• Conducted the "10-year HVAC Survey" to determine retained student knowledge
• Manager of the Utah Solar Test Home, a 50-year-old zero-energy home with nine heating systems, three AC systems, atmospheric water generator, year-round greenhouse, 16 kW solar input, whole-house LFP battery backup system, etc.
• Contractor / owner since 1979 in Virginia, North Carolina, Utah and Nevada
• Inventor of the Step Generator (Rankine-cycle system for home use), Equinox thermal storage system (reduces heating costs by 75%), and Oasis Air filtration system (removes 100% of airborne contaminants without creating an airflow restriction)
• Published author of several HVAC technical books and numerous articles