Alfred
In this episode, Dan Holohan reflects on the importance of taking time for people. Episode Transcript I was in my mid-30s when I first met Alfred. He was probably 20 year...
Dead Men Tales Podcast
During HeatingHelp.com’s Dead Men Tales podcast, industry expert and master storyteller Dan Holohan shares the stories behind the work and fun facts you may not know about heating history.
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How ASHRAE Began
In this episode, Dan Holohan shares the story of Hugh J. Barron who helped found The American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers and encouraged the nascent I=B=...
Keep An Eye On District Heating
In this episode, Dan Holohan shares how district heating was born, why it’s getting bigger all over the world, and what this means for hydronics. Episode Transcript Birds...
Learning From History
Sometimes what seems strange at first (the boiler’s installed where?!) makes sense when you consider the history behind it. In this episode, Dan Holohan shares handy hist...
Collectors
In this episode, Dan Holohan ponders the things we collect and the intriguing stories behind them. Episode Transcript When I knocked on the doctor’s front door, a dog on ...
Troubleshooting In An Antique Building
In this episode, Dan Holohan walks us through a troubleshooting job at Fraunces Tavern, which was built in 1719 and is the oldest structure in NYC. Episode Transcript It ...
The Problem Solver
In this episode, Dan Holohan tells the tale of finding treasure in an old box in a warehouse and how that moment changed his career bit by bit. Episode Transcript In 1970...
An American Cathedral
In this episode, Dan Holohan reflects on the tradesmen who built NYC's World Trade Center. Episode Transcript Mike always wrote his initials on the pipes with a wax crayo...
The Game-Changing Arrival of the Oil Burner
William Newton Best developed the earliest oil burner just as the world entered the 20th Century. Coal was king, but he didn’t let that stand in his way. In this episode,...
Plastics!
There’s a scene in The Graduate where Mr. McGuire says to Benjamin, “I want to say one word to you...Plastics!...There’s a great future in plastics.” This was around the ...