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Former SMACNA President and owner of EB&I, Tony Kocurek, echoes this optimism, urging the industry to warmly embrace the future, eagerly learn novel approaches, and identify pathways for expanding our professional horizons.
SMACNA’s Outgoing President reflects on his term with Seth Lennon and highlights some of the successes, including a refreshed focus on Indoor Air Quality.
Test and Balance is just one piece of the sheet metal worker’s union, but a vital one. Without T&B, airflow is just airflow. With T&B it is a working system.
That’s why Kocurek started an internship program with the University of New Mexico 7 years ago to reach out to mechanical engineering students in their twenties.
“As the coronavirus began spreading across the country in the spring, Albuquerque-based Energy Balance & Integration LLC (EB&I) was tasked with helping retrofit the decommissioned medical building to handle an upturn of positive cases. The challenge: Convert the vacant Gibson Medical Center into a negative pressure environment with 200 beds to isolate patients infected with COVID-19. Essentially, that means configuring air flow in patient rooms so that coronavirus contagions inside the rooms can’t escape.”
Since researchers identified the disease in 1976, it has re-emerged periodically, sickening and even killing building occupants and visitors through contaminated water droplets from HVAC systems….
“Anthony Kocurek, owner of Energy Balance and Integration LLC, Albuquerque, New Mexico, was elected to serve as vice president on the SMACNA Executive…
“Anthony Kocurek, owner of Energy Balance & Integration in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shares his thoughts on how his business has changed and how it will continue to evolve…