With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. The OSH Act covers most private sector employers and their workers, in addition to some public sector employers and workers in the 50 states and certain territories.

The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) is an international trade association representing 1,834 member firms in 97 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. SMACNA’s HVAC Contractors Council develops programs, services and products that help members compete effectively in the HVAC duct fabrication, installation and building life cycle markets.

The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) is a nonprofit, international professional association with a diverse membership of health education professionals and students. The organization promotes healthy behaviors, healthy communities, and healthy environments through its membership, its network of local chapters, and its numerous partnerships with other organizations.

The Texas Air Conditioning Contractors Association is a non-profit trade association for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration contractors in Texas, USA. These contractors design, install, maintain and service HVAC/R systems, guided by principals of honesty and integrity. TACCA is committed to improving the industry by helping members succeed.

U.S. Climate Alliance states are committed to taking real, impactful, on-the-ground action that urgently addresses the climate challenge. In becoming an Alliance member, member states commit to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius globally.

The mission of the Department of Energy is to ensure America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.

AREA is the European organization of air-conditioning, refrigeration, and heat pump (RACHP) contractors. Established in 1988, AREA voices the interests of 26 national members from 22 European countries, representing more than 9,000 companies across Europe (mainly small to medium-sized enterprises), employing some 125,000 people and with an annual turnover approaching € 20 billion.

BREEAM is a pioneer sustainability standard and rating system for buildings, communities and infrastructure. BREEAM does this through third party certification of the assessment of an asset’s environmental, social and economic sustainability performance, using standards developed by BRE. This means BREEAM rated developments are more sustainable environments that enhance the well-being of the people who live and work in them.

buildingSMART Deutschland is the German Chapter of buildingSMART International (bSI). The aim of this international organization is to spread Building Information Modeling (BIM) in industry, public sector, politics, government and media.

The Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) is the professional body for the UK plumbing and heating industry. It is also an educational charity. As the professional body for the UK plumbing and heating industry, the CIPHE has represented, supported and developed members since 1906.

Eurovent is an association for Indoor Climate (HVAC), Process Cooling, and Food Cold Chain Technologies. Its members come from throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa represented by more than 1.000 companies, the majority small and medium-sized manufacturers.

Founded in 1993, Eurovent Certita Certification is recognized as a world class organization in the field of third party product performance certification for Heat Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration products. They include HVAC-R consultants, Energy Engineering offices, Architects and product end-users, the most comprehensive data base of certified products, covering up to 40 product families.

Global Optimism is a purpose driven enterprise focused on social and environmental change. Global Optimism exists to precipitate a transformation from pessimism to optimism as a method of creating social and environmental change.

Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signaling, operation, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey solutions.

IFC Certification Ltd is a UKAS accredited and internationally recognized provider of high quality customer focused independent third party certification. IFC Certification Ltd is also a Notified Certification Body for certificating products for CE Marking under the Construction Products Directive.

Institute of Domestic Heating & Environmental Engineers is the pre-eminent professional body for the approved heating engineer. The prime objective of the IDHEE is to raise the standards of domestic heating installations through education, to which end IDHEE Education has developed the Domestic Heating Design Course, and continues to develop further courses to enhance the knowledge of installers in general and its members in particular.

International Accreditation Forum (IAF) is the world association of Conformity Assessment Accreditation Bodies. Its primary function is to develop a single worldwide programme of conformity assessment, which reduces risk for business and its customers by assuring them that accredited certificates may be relied upon.

Linear Air Diffusers are specialists in commercial grade aluminum linear slot diffusers, linear bar grilles, and custom plenums. They have been manufacturing air diffusion products such as: Air Grilles, Registers, and Diffusers (GRD’s) for over 40 years. Their business model is based on devoted investments with the use of modern robotics manufacturing, 3D rapid prototyping, computational fluid dynamics simulations (CFD), and BIM.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. delivers innovative and integrated solutions across a wide range of industries from commercial aviation and transportation to power plants and gas turbines, and from machinery and infrastructure to integrated defense and space systems.

OpenTherm is a non-manufacturer-dependent system of communication between modulating HVAC appliances and room thermostats. It consists of a communication protocol and an interface specification. The OpenTherm communication protocol is primarily designed to control modulating heating appliances. The protocol is available to members of the OpenTherm Association only.

The Sustainable Energy Association are a member based industry body offering innovative policy solutions that link up building-level technologies and the wider energy system to achieve a low carbon, secure energy future for the UK, benefits for UK consumers, and commercial growth for businesses working in the sector.

VDMA is an association that represents the common economic, technical and scientific interests of the mechanical engineering industry, especially towards national and international authorities and business circles.

The World Plumbing Council (WPC) is an international organization which aims to develop and promote the image and standards of the plumbing Industry worldwide. World Plumbing Day is an international event on March 11 every year, initiated by the World Plumbing Council as a means of highlighting the important role plumbing plays in the health, safety and sustainability of the community.