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New Name...Same Great Company!

Piedmont Air Conditioning was founded in 1971 and we are celebrating our 40 year anniversary throughout all of 2011. Our employees today still strive to deliver the level of service that our founders, Larry and Buddy Kelly, built the company around. Over the last 40 years, the portfolio of services and solutions we offer to our customers has grown exponentially. Piedmont employees are working with customers to help them

• Develop and implement cost effective preventative maintenance programs

• Design and build energy efficient mechanical systems for their buildings

• Design and install state of the art energy management and building automation systems

• Identify, design, and install energy efficiency measures aimed at reducing the utility costs, utility consumption, and carbon footprint of commercial facilities

• Address indoor air quality issues

• Identify and correct electrical system issues

• Construct and maintain LEED rated buildings

In an effort to insure our current and future customers are aware of the vast array of value added services offered by Piedmont, we have elected to change our name from “Piedmont Air Conditioning” to “Piedmont Service Group”. This change will be effective on April 11th, 2011. There has been no change in ownership of the company. Over the next couple of months, you will see our new name and logo show up on trucks, signs, invoices, proposals, and other various areas.

Our new website will be www.piedmontservicegroup.com and our new email addresses will be @piedmontsg.com instead of @piedmontac.com.

This is a very exciting time for us and we are glad to share it with you!

Congatulations!!!

As many of you already know Piedmont recently hosted a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) class in which participants from Piedmont, other Service Logic companies and outsiders reviewed CEM material, studied hard, and took the CEM exam. 

Special congratulations to Chris Turner, Shane Corbett, Mark Fowler and Scott Gugenheim for successfully passing the test.  This is a great accomplishment for these 4 as individuals and as members of the Piedmont Team. 

We anticipate continuing the process of CEM certification for the others who participated with continuing class, study and testing.  One of the most important things for all of us to remember is that this class greatly increased and enhanced our knowledge about energy concepts, financial impacts and energy strategies.  Everyone who participated in the class is smarter now than they were when they started.  Without regard to testing outcome, this alone made it worth it for all of us.  For that we thank all of the participants.  

Great job everyone!!!!

-Peter Williams, President

 

Happy Halloween!

All sorts of characters showed up at Piedmont Air Conditioning today to celebrate Halloween!  We had a costume contest with prizes for many categories such as "Spookiest", "Most Original", "Best Last Minute", "Most Creative", and "Best Overall".  The winners won a pumpkin trophy, gift card, and many laughs!  Everyone enjoyed candy, cookies and cupcakes as refreshments to get in to the Halloween mood.  See if you can guess who won each category from the fun pictures below!

Happy Halloween!!



Piedmont Air Conditioning's Annual Customer Appreciation Party!

Every year Piedmont Air Conditioning hosts a customer appreciation event to thank all of our great customers.  This years party was the best yet!  With great food and drinks including BBQ pork & chicken, crab, shrimp, oysters, banana's foster and fried cheesecake everyone enjoined themselves.  Door prizes of t-shirts "Shucking Energy Cost and Oysters" were given out along with PAC koozies to keep all the drinks cold.  Check out some of the fun pictures from the event below!

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See you next year!

Energy Star Certification!

Piedmont Air Conditioning's headquarters in Raleigh NC earned EPA's Energy Star Certification.  This certification is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and recognizes Piedmont Air Conditioning of Raleigh for demonstrating superior energy performance.

 

Come by and check out our plaques today!

Congratulations Jeremiah!

Please help me congratulate Jeremiah on his promotion to Projects/Start-up Supervisor.  Jeremiah has been managing the Construction Start-up Group for several years and stands ready to accept this new challenge in Service Projects.  Jeremiah has provided outstanding leadership over the last several years in managing this part of Construction to reduce the amount of call backs and warranty calls.  He brings a tremendous amount of HVAC knowledge and experience with him to aid in his success at his new position.  Not only will he be taking the reins from Roger in the Projects group but he will still continue managing the Construction Start-up Group.  We feel that Jeremiah has the ambition, desire and great attitude that will make this a seamless transition.

Please congratulate Jeremiah when you see him for stepping up and helping us as we continue to grow!

Bobby Hughes

GM Construction Operations