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Limbach has implicitly acknowledged this by adding energy efficiency solutions as an offering in its ODR segment. Limbach no longer references that it is “Gathering momentum in energy efficiency” as part of its growth outlook in Investment Summary. Meanwhile, OEMs like Carrier are committing vast resources to expand their and climate solutions service and sales professionals over the next five years by adding 100,000 professionals. This announcement comes while labor is already tight for skilled HVAC technicians.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "0a56479d-8ae1-4cb4-8f25-058d41b552d3", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.56, "x": 0.02, "y": 0.61 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Carrier's TechVantage initiative, announced in January, is included in both the $1 billion investment and anticipated 4,000 jobs. The program aims to hire 1,000 U.S. service technicians and train more than 100,000 climate solutions service and sales professionals over the next five years. This effort is focused on developing the skilled workforce needed to support the installation and servicing of high-performance climate solutions systems.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "9529b47f-b8af-4e77-9ca4-08131809a100", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "Energy Efficiency Solutions. The Company provides customized solutions to help building owners achieve energy goals, secure funding, reduce operating costs, and maintain energy-efficient facilities. By enhancing visibility into facility and asset performance, the Company delivers significant energy savings. The Company’s tailored approach includes sourcing funding through energy rebates and incentives, energy engineer-led facility assessments and benchmarking, energy-efficient equipment upgrades, and optimizing and maintaining building systems. — Limbach 2024 10-K", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Authority citation", "toolSlug": "authority-citation", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd953-5370-75b3-9c64-75da7eac84f3", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.6, "x": 0.02, "y": 0.95 }, "kind": "source-note", "text": "Source: Carrier press release, Limbach 2024 10-K, and Nov 2022 Investor Presentation, labor shortage 1) “The One Thing That’s Holding Back the Heat Pump”, Wired.com, May 6, 2024", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "4d7eabcd-2368-4a75-bcfc-4c1f3da07f24", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.25, "w": 0.38, "x": 0.6, "y": 0.36 }, "kind": "table", "text": "Limbach New Disclosure in 10-K: “Energy Efficiency Solutions. 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