FieldTech Pro

The daily app for HVAC, electrical, plumbing & building automation techs. Training, CMMS, P&IDs & field tools — all in your pocket.

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Fun Friday: commercial buildings use about 17% of all U.S. energy, counting grid losses. Add homes and it's about 37% (EIA, 2023). The people running those mechanical rooms have their hands on a lot of the country's energy. #FacilitiesManagement

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The first broken thing I ever fixed taught me most of what I still use. Broken doesn't mean finished. It means you haven't found the problem yet. Find the next piece and get that one right. That's the whole job in a building. #SkilledTrades

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Full override procedure's in the app: https://t.co/IXSkTfyr50

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Putting a BAS point in override takes 5 seconds. Releasing it is the step that gets forgotten for 6 months. Release it, then check it reads AUTO and the value moves with the sequence again. No override report? Walk the graphics for hand icons. #BuildingAutomation

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First cold week, first no-heat calls. On a zoned hydronic system, check in order before the ladder: tstat calling? Zone panel light on? Valve opening, end switch closing? Boiler firing, pump running?

Half the calls stop at step one. https://t.co/FuRmSxJi6z

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@UALocal524 Welding, pipefitting, plumbing, and HVAC under one roof is a strong program. The apprentices who learn a little of each understand the whole building.

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@UALocal112 Hands-on from day one is how the good ones learn. A year next to a journeyman teaches what no textbook can.

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@NYSPipeTrades Statewide hiring across four trades says a lot about where the work is. Anyone finishing school this year should be calling these locals.

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@RandomHvacGuy @CaptainBlackass Both work. The ones who did school and then rode with a good tech usually got up to speed faster on the real systems.

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@tradeschoolpro Most of us never felt ready the first time we signed for a job. You figure it out by doing the next call and the one after that.

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@Patricksomers72 Ride-alongs and OSHA before full time is a solid start. The guys who asked questions on those days moved faster once they had their own truck.

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@Local636Detroit Good to see it opening. Steamfitting is a career you can ride for 30 years. Plants, hospitals, data centers all need people who can run pipe and understand what flows through it.

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Nobody ever got written up for closing a valve too slowly. Slam it and every pound of moving water stops at once. Give each full turn 15 to 30 seconds, stop when snug, and count your turns so you can reopen it the same way. #Plumbing

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See your own Skill Tree, 7 days free: https://t.co/IXSkTfyr50

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You can't climb a ladder you can't see. The Career Skill Tree in FieldTech Pro shows where you are, what to learn next, and what the next level looks like. 12 trades. Which would you start with? #TradesCareers

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First day in a big mechanical room is a lot. You don't need to learn all of it. Nobody did. The fix isn't more information, it's sequence: safety, one system end to end, the controls that run it, then the next. Know what's next. #TradesCareers

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Fun Friday: the first modern AC system (Carrier, 1902) wasn't built for comfort. It controlled humidity at a Brooklyn printing plant so the paper stopped swelling. First question on any system you inherit: what was it put in to do? #HVAC

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Full LOTO procedure's in the app: https://t.co/IXSkTfyr50

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A lock on a disconnect proves you put a lock on a disconnect. It doesn't prove the equipment is dead. Push start. Meter it live-dead-live. Bleed the pressure and watch the gauge. The lock is the promise. Verifying zero energy is the proof. #Safety

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Try the simulators free for 7 days: https://t.co/IXSkTfyr50

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Nobody lets a new hire practice on a live plant. This is the float level simulator in FieldTech Pro: drag the level, watch the switch trip, push it out of range and see what alarms. 35+ simulators like it. #BuildingAutomation