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Southwest HVAC News
ClimateMaster and LoopTech
host first Annual GeoRanch.
 ClimateMaster and
LoopTech hosted over 200 attendees at their first annual
GeoRanch in New Waverly, TX. LoopTech’s headquarters, the event
location, proved to be an ideal place for this type of “in the
field” training. This one day event featured live demonstrations
that focused on geothermal system components and different types
of installation techniques.
The training consisted of nine different stations that
demonstrated different aspects of geothermal. These stations
included: Drilling techniques and looping (led by Ralph Cadwallader
of LoopTech and Phil Polak of Gulf Coast Pump & Supply), grout
machines and grouting (led by Jeff Bowen from Geo-Loop, Treg Yowell
from GeoPro and Allan Skouby from GRTI), HDPE piping & fusion
techniques (led by Stuart Lyle and Mike Raider from ISCO Pipe),
exterior field headers and manifolding (led by John Sirman of
LoopTech), interior piping/circulation pumps/air flow (led by
Charles Smith of GeoAdvantage), ground source heat pumps (led by
Caleb Fox of ClimateMaster), flushing and purging (led by Neil Greer
and Jac Coleman from PurgeRite), pond loops (led by Bill Greer of
LoopTech) and economics/GeoDesigner (led by Titian Burris of
ClimateMaster). An additional station reserved for school district
attendees was held by Dr. Kavanaugh of Ground Source Heat Pump
Design.
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“GeoRanch was a location where you
could see and touch all aspects of the geothermal installation,”
said Tracy Tee, District Manager for ClimateMaster. “We were
able to display the new units with ClimateMaster’s iGate™
technology, which will make a real impact on our industry.”
Russell Buras, President of LoopTech
said, “It was pleasure for us to host this first class event at our
new headquarters just North of Houston. It was fun, informative and
just being able to show people what we do and how we do it, really
made a difference.” Buras also said, “I believe GeoRanch can be a
model to use across the country on how to get people interested,
educated, and how to grow the Geothermal market."
Attendees of this training included builders, dealers, distributors,
utility consultants, contractors, architects and engineers. Titian
Burris, Builder Development Manager for ClimateMaster, invited a
handful of area builders to the event. Burris said, “a live
demonstration helps people understand that these systems are not
difficult to install. Also, it is important for these builders to
see the true economics of geothermal and why it makes sense to make
it part of their business offering.”
Cody Gebhart of Aces AC Supply, a
ClimateMaster distributor, brought over 38 dealers from 20 different
companies. Gebhart said “the amount of information that was supplied
in one work day would have taken over a year’s worth of training
dates to bring it all together.” He hopes that there will be more
training events similar to this in the future. Gebhart added, “I
couldn’t have been more pleased with the way the event was set up or
executed. Gathering that amount of people in one place for an event
like GeoRanch had to take an immense amount of planning and you
could definitely tell that it paid off.”
 According to Boyd Lee, Director of
Marketing and Member Services with Caddo Electric Cooperative,
“GeoRanch was very beneficial, primarily from the standpoint of
getting to know the ClimateMaster family of vendors and contractors.
It was also very obvious that ClimateMaster attracts high quality
contractors to its fold.”
Ralph Cadwallader, CEO of LoopTech ,
celebrated his 32nd business anniversary the day of GeoRanch. He
said “our passion for saving energy is our mission. Energy Savings
is a very worthy cause and it was demonstrated at the GeoRanch
event.”
Sponsors of GeoRanch include: Gulf Coast Pump & Supply, Geo-Loop,
GeoPro, Inc., Geothermal Resource Technology, Inc., ISCO Pipe, and
PurgeRite.
LoopTech, founded in 1984,
specializes in clean energy solutions through the installation of
vertical closed loop heat exchangers for ground source heat pumps.
LoopTech has installed these GeoExchange systems in seventeen states
as well as Saudi Arabia and Mexico. LoopTech provides full service
for all types of commercial and residential applications utilizing
its fleet of drilling and installation equipment. We have developed
several creative innovations for the GeoExchange industry.
ClimateMaster is the world’s
largest and most progressive manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps.
The company is committed to innovation and dedicated to
environmentally clean, economically sound and superbly comfortable
home and business environments. Each ClimateMaster product is
produced in the company’s state-of-the-art facility utilizing
quality management systems that are ISO 9001:2000 certified. An LSB
Industries, Inc. company (NYSE: LXU), ClimateMaster has been
designing and building equipment that enhances the environments we
live and work in every day for more than 50 years. In addition to
geothermal heat pumps, ClimateMaster offers the most extensive
product line of water-source heat pumps for use in a wide variety of
applications. ClimateMaster products are proudly built in the U.S.A.
For additional information, contact
ClimateMaster, 7300 S.W. 44th St., Oklahoma City, OK,
73179. Phone: 1-877-436-6263. Website:
www.climatemaster.com.
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