America, as well as the rest of the world, is fighting to beat a pandemic crisis like nothing experienced since the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. We know we will win sooner rather than later, but this got myself and the people at Engineered Systems magazine asking, “We’ll beat this virus but at what cost to the HVAC industry?” In particular, what about small engineering businesses? Will they survive?
Sure, big business will make it through, and then there are the medium-sized companies that no one talks about. The large companies have size, backlog, financial stability, etc. Small businesses don’t have any of this. Today, I’m semi-retired and operate a small business — a company of one. I will make it through this pandemic to work and enjoy another day, but this won’t be the case for so many small businesses in the HVAC building industry.