HVAC Wrapped: 2024 in Review
A lot happened in 2024, so we rounded up some highlights, by quarter, as the year winds down
Alec Stevanovski
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October HVAC shipments grow at highest rate in three years
The industry has staged a comeback from 2023, with a promising replacement backdrop heading into the next two years
ServiceTitan is now a public company
After more than a decade as a private company, ServiceTitan brought the trades to Wall Street — and made its public debut
Apex Service Partners acquires technology company
The nation's largest residential HVAC consolidator has acquired three-year-old tech company HomeBreeze
“As long as we were hitting our numbers, they left us alone,” says contractor on private equity
Post Close is a monthly series anonymously highlighting the thoughts of HVAC contractors who have sold their businesses to a private-equity-backed platform
What Trump’s EPA pick could mean for contractors amid HFC phasedown
There’s a new wildcard in the mix of the HFC phasedown: Donald Trump’s November 11 nomination of Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency
HVAC investments flowing to the South, analysis shows
Between 2022 and 2024, private equity-backed platforms favored the South when making acquisitions, according to a new analysis
Q&A: Capital HVAC owner on call-by-call management
By supporting technicians in real time on every service call, the company's generating more revenue out of fewer calls
Inside ServiceTitan’s pitch to the public
ServiceTitan published a 300-page document outlining its industry outlook, financial performance, and future plans
Any Hour Group watching inflation, playing offense in 2025
There's a rosy case to be made for the HVAC industry next year, but Any Hour's prepping for it to look a lot like this year