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Board of Directors President Steve Ziga, CPD, SET, CFPS hpeGROUP 215-859-2939 [email protected] Technical Vice President Dawn Bishop Sargent & Lundy (302) 778-6682 [email protected] Legislative Vice President Clay Hathaway Furlow Associates 302-798-3515 [email protected] Membership Vice President Matthew Martin James Martin Company 215-669-2076 [email protected] Education Vice President Mike Panco Furlow Associates 302-798-3515 [email protected] Treasurer Bill O’Donnell, CPD, FASPE PWI Engineering 215-241-9100 [email protected] Administrative Secretary James Eyrich L&R Associates 267-308-0500 [email protected] Corresponding Secretary David Smith 610-804-0069 [email protected] We are online at www.AspePhila.org. COMMITTEES Board of Governors Dave Holst Ernie Rink Golf Committee Chair Bill O’Donnell, CPD, FASPE PWI Engineering 215-241-9100 [email protected] Product Show Chair Michael Panco Furlow Associates 302-798-3515 [email protected] Affiliate Liaisons Alex Barbieri Barbieri & Kline 215-885-0440 [email protected] Hugo Gobbi James Martin Company 215-669-2076 [email protected] ASSE/ASPE Plumbing Design School Chair Mike Panco Furlow Associates 302-798-3515 [email protected] Social Activities Committee Dawn Bishop Sargent & Lundy 302-778-6682 [email protected] Newsletter Editor David C Smith, PE 610-804-0069 [email protected] May Issue Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society Earn CEU and PDH credit at each Dinner Meeting. In this month’s newsletter, you will find all kinds of news: This month’s Dinner Meeting Topic. Look for Bradley Corp’s Tempered Water Solution on page 17. Insightful news from the plumbing world. NATIONAL ASPE will begin electronic Membership renewal only soon, so please make sure your e-mails are up to date with them. Come join your friends and colleagues at the next dinner meeting. Thank you to Joe Adams for being our new Webmaster. President’s Message.............. 2 Technical Corner .................. 4 Legislative News .................... 6 Membership News................. 8 Education Report ................. 10 Speaking Out ....................... 22 Affiliates Corner ................... 26 Last Month’s Attendees....... 32

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Board of Directors

President Steve Ziga, CPD, SET, CFPS hpeGROUP 215-859-2939 [email protected] Technical Vice President Dawn Bishop Sargent & Lundy (302) 778-6682 [email protected] Legislative Vice President Clay Hathaway Furlow Associates 302-798-3515 [email protected]   Membership Vice President Matthew Martin James Martin Company 215-669-2076 [email protected] Education Vice President Mike Panco Furlow Associates 302-798-3515 [email protected] Treasurer Bill O’Donnell, CPD, FASPE PWI Engineering 215-241-9100 [email protected] Administrative Secretary James Eyrich L&R Associates 267-308-0500 [email protected] Corresponding Secretary David Smith 610-804-0069 [email protected]

We are online at www.AspePhila.org.

COMMITTEES Board of Governors Dave Holst Ernie Rink

Golf Committee Chair Bill O’Donnell, CPD, FASPE PWI Engineering 215-241-9100 [email protected] Product Show Chair Michael Panco Furlow Associates 302-798-3515 [email protected] Affiliate Liaisons Alex Barbieri Barbieri & Kline 215-885-0440 [email protected]

Hugo Gobbi James Martin Company 215-669-2076 [email protected] ASSE/ASPE Plumbing Design School Chair Mike Panco Furlow Associates 302-798-3515 [email protected] Social Activities Committee Dawn Bishop Sargent & Lundy 302-778-6682 [email protected] Newsletter Editor David C Smith, PE 610-804-0069 [email protected]

May Issue Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society

Earn CEU and PDH credit at each Dinner Meeting.

In this month’s newsletter, you will find all kinds of news:

This month’s Dinner Meeting Topic. Look for Bradley Corp’s Tempered Water Solution on page 17. Insightful news from the plumbing world. NATIONAL ASPE will begin electronic Membership renewal only soon, so please make sure your e-mails are up to date with them. Come join your friends and colleagues at the next dinner meeting. Thank you to Joe Adams for being our new Webmaster.

President’s Message .............. 2

Technical Corner .................. 4

Legislative News .................... 6

Membership News ................. 8

Education Report ................. 10

Speaking Out ....................... 22

Affiliates Corner ................... 26

Last Month’s Attendees ....... 32

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE WOW!!! Another calendar year has come and gone. Reflecting on the past 9 months makes me think that I need to slow down and take a moment to think about where we’ve been, who we are, and where we are going. I’ve been a member of the board since 2004. I’ve worked as VPT, VPL and now President. Each of those positions carried different responsibilities that connected me to the chapter membership.

As VPT, I was responsible to provide the programming for the dinner meeting. That carried the greatest challenge for me because I never wanted to disap-point you all as your time is valuable. As VPL, I worked to provide you the latest and greatest code updates from the local to national level. What I learned there is that there is a great divide between engineering folks and trades people in regards to code safety and project economics. As President, I’ve hopefully learned to delegate. The Board has supported me the past year and they have been a self-sufficient, ambitious group. I cannot say that any

one member of the board didn’t put in their required time. It’s not always about perfect attendance, or bringing amazing new ideas to the table --- as good as those contributions are… For me it’s always about knowing that you can rely on someone. And I can say that about all the members of the Board. It’s been a privilege being your leader for 2012-13, and I am most definitely looking forward to the next year together. I have to honestly say, it will be even bet-ter!!! A sampling of things to look for next year: ASPE Philadelphia Plumbing Design School 1 & 2 –

Starts September 23rd ASPE Philadelphia 20th Annual Golf Outing – Sep-

tember 12th ASPE Philadelphia 17th Biennial Product Show –

October 24th ASPE Philadelphia Bowling Event – Date TBD And of course a great technical dinner meeting schedule! Have a great May! Regards, SZ

Steve Ziga President

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Dinner Meeting Announcement

THURSDAY, May 30th

DINNER TECHNICAL TOPIC

Piping Support Systems

Presented by:

Jim LeStage

HoldRite

LOCATION: Popi’s Italian Restaurant 3120 South 20th Street Philadelphia, PA 19145

215‐755-7180

Time: 6 - 8 PM

COST $25.00

PLEASE MAKE RESERVATIONS BY

TUESDAY BEFORE MEETING

FOR RESERVATIONS CONTACT:

Dawn Bishop 302.778.7404

[email protected]

Meeting qualifies for 1‐Hour Continuing Education Unit (No certificates will be provided)

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May is here…Summer is right around the corner I’m sure everyone is looking forward to summer activities. I’d like to remind you of our up-coming May events…see below. Next year’s technical meeting schedule (September 2013 – May 2014) has been filled. If you have an idea that you would like to see the chapter have a speaker present, you can still send me an email about it. We’ll have a back up list for next year as well as use those topic ideas for the future. Thank you for all of the ideas everyone has provided!!!

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to NAVIEN for hosting a tour & dinner for our members on May 16th!!!

A reminder for the upcoming ASPE meeting this month: Dinner Meeting: Thursday, May 30, 2013 @ 6pm Technical Topic: Pipe Support Systems

Presented by Jim LeStage of Holdrite

Meeting Location: Popi’s Italian Restaurant 3120 South 20th Street Philadelphia, PA 19145

Please RSVP by the Monday before the meeting to: [email protected]

TECHNICAL CORNER

Dawn Bishop Vice President,

Technical

Show ers-ADA,Commercial, Residential

Electric Tankless Water Heaters

Proceptor Grease Interceptors

Drinking Fountains&Safety Equipment

Drains & Carriers

China Fixtures & Whirlpools

Trench Drains

*Stocked in Philadelphia

Roof Pipe Support Systems

Acid Waste Piping Systems

Wall Hydrants, Brass products

Show ers & Faucets

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(It is important that you RSVP by the Monday before as it is requested that we give a more accurate headcount to the restaurant. Thanks!)

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Manufacturers’

Representatives

Hydro Heating and Cooling Systems CHG

Antimicrobial Protected Plumbing and Hardware Products

Thermostatic radiator, flow control, heating and mixing valves

Leakproof Motor Centrifugal Recirculation Pumps, for Residential and Commercial Use

Distinctive glass vessels and sinks. POWERS

Water Tempering Innovation since 1891

Hydroguard shower system, water tempering valves, industrial processing controls, self operating regulators, & pneumatic valves

Hydronic Heating Equipment - Boilers, Baseboard, Indirect Water Heaters, Kickspace Heaters, Commerical Fin Tube and Modular Boilers

Commercial and Residential Water Heaters, Parts and Accessories, Pump and Expansion Tanks

Insulation Products - Radiant Barrier rFoil; Concrete Barrier rFoil, Caulks, Sealants and Firestop

Commercial and Residential Water Heaters, Parts and Accessories, Pump and Expansion Tanks

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I would just like to provide an update this month on what has been happening with ASPE Na-tional Legislative Committee.

The national legislative committee has provided an updated list of the States and Codes that are currently being update. Some of the States on the list are as follows: For the State of Delaware, there appears to be a state wide update to the plumbing code. Though not listed I believe the City of Wilmington, DE is also updating their plumbing code. Both cur-rently using the 2003 IPC and will be updating to the 2012. This is a big leap forward but I believe it is a good thing. Check out the State of Pennsylvania. There appears to be a state wide update (IPC) as well as several other municipalities. The City of Philadelphia does not appear to be one of these municipalities. . New Jersey appears to be doing a state wide update (NSPC) as well as many other municipalities. The same goes for the State of Maryland (NSPC and supplement) and many of its counties.

The committee has also placed a copy of the proposed update to the Single Stack Code that I believe will be going into to the upcoming revision to the ASPE Plumbing Engineering Design Handbook (PEDH) Volume No. 2. They have a link to it on the ASPE website at About Us/Committees under Legislative Committee. The docu-ment is in the MS Word format and has the proposed text with a summary of the changes and companions to the Philadelphia Single Stack Code. Here is a copy of the document:

SECTION 914

SINGLE STACK VENT SYSTEM

914.1 Where permitted. A drainage stack shall be permitted to serve as a single stack vent system when sized and installed in accordance with Sections 914.2 through 914.9. The drainage stack and branch piping in a single stack vent system shall provide for the flow of liquids, solids, and air without the loss of fixture trap seals.

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LEGISLATIVE NEWS

Clay Hathaway Vice President,

Legislative

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MEMBERSHIP NEWS

No article this month.

Matthew Martin Vice President,

Membership

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SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERY-THING

The time has come to share with you some interesting notes on the world of design and engineering. Where it has been and where it is headed. I recall back in the day so to speak how some of us worked 40 hour weeks and then got to night class until 11 P.M. for three nights a week. Our designs were on onion skin, paper and then mylar as some of us remem-

ber erasing shields, brushes, scum pads and those messy ink pens. We jump ahead to rapidograph pens wow now we are in the future the pens had an ink cartridge already filled, and different line weights. Remember you first calculator?

Mine was a TI-55 and cost around $230. It was paid for by weekly deductions from your paycheck. The next semester at Penn State evening division my Stat-ics and Dynamics class we used calculators in place of the Slide Rules thank God for that I hated the slide rule. As we move out of the 70’s and into the early

80’s I recall Intergraph computer drafting that had dual screens and a large table that you were able to attach a menu to the tablet that you could pick a symbol and insert on your drawing how great was that!

Intergraph became Microstation and Autocad had everybody back taking classes otherwise you may not have a job too long if you were unwilling to learn Autocad. My class was a 4 credit curriculum at Penn-sylvania Institute of Technology. Programs were de-veloped that converted Autocad and Microstation which helped when the company you worked for only did one program but the client wanted the other, Murphy’s Law!

Finally the world according to REVIT/BIM. Great for the Architect but still evolving for the mechanical, electrical and plumbing disciplines as you may have already experienced the lack of all the devices needed and your search for a company with a good library of dimensional equipment to use otherwise you are building your own and who has the time to do that, Good luck!

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EDUCATION REPORT

Mike Panco Vice President,

Education

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LEGISLATIVE NEWS LEGISLATIVE NEWS 914.2 Stack Size. Drainage stacks shall be sized according to Table 914.2 A maximum of two water closets shall be permitted to discharge to a 3 inch stack. Stacks shall be uniformly sized based on the total connected drainage fixture unit load with no reductions in size.

Table 914.2

Single Stack Size

914.3 Branch Size. Horizontal branches connecting to a single stack vent system shall be sized according to Table 710.1(2).

Exceptions:

1. No more than one water closet within 18" of the stack horizontally shall be permitted on a 3" hori-zontal branch.

2. A water closet within 18" of a stack horizontally and one other fixture with up to 1-1/2 inch fixture drain size shall be permitted on a 3" horizontal branch when connected to the stack through a sanitary tee.

914.4 Length of horizontal branches.

914.4.1 Water closets shall be no more than four (4) feet horizontally from the stack.

Exception

Water closets shall be permitted to be up to eight (8) feet horizontally from the stack when con-nected to the stack through a sanitary tee.

914.4.2 Fixtures other than water closets shall be no more than twelve (12) feet horizontally from the stack.

914.4.3 The length of any vertical piping from a fixture trap to a horizontal branch shall not be considered in computing the fixture's horizontal distance from the stack.

914.5 Maximum vertical drops from fixtures. Vertical drops from fixture traps to horizontal branch piping shall be one size larger than the trap size, but not less than two (2) inch in diameter. Vertical drops shall be four (4)

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Maximum Connected Drainage Fixture Units

Stacks Less than 75 Feet in Height

Stacks 75 Feet to Less than 160 Feet in Height

Stack 160 Feet or Greater in Height

3 24 NP NP

4 225 24 NP

5 480 225 24

6 1015 480 225

8 2320 1015 480

10 4500 2320 1015

12 8100 4500 2320

15 13,600 8100 4500

Stack Size (inches)

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THE BAASE COMPANY, INC. 140 RAILROAD DRIVE

WARMINSTER, PA 18974-0052 PHONE NO. 215-364-8855 FAX NO. 215-364-3050

WEBSITE: www.baaseco.com Lowell Musselman Joel Di Giacinto Dorothea Graham

Glenn Hall Chad Hayes

AERCO INTERNATIONAL HIGH EFFICIENCY

GAS FIRED WATER HEATERS AND BOILERS INDIRECT FIRED WATER HEATERS PACKAGED STEAM GENERATOR

CHROMALOX HEAT TRACING

FREEZE PROTECTION SNOW MELTING, ROOF & GUTTER DEICING

THRUSH COMPANY INC. INLINE ALL BRONZE PUMPS

PRESSURE BOOSTERS

WEIL PUMP COMPANY SUMP AND SEWAGE PUMPS

FIBERGLASS SUMP & SEWAGE BASINS

CANARIIS CORPORATION PACKAGED PUMPING STATIONS

UL LISTED – MULTIPLE PUMPS – VARIABLE SPEED

LEGISLATIVE NEWS feet maximum length. Fixture drains that are not increased in size, or have a vertical drop exceeding 4 feet shall be individually vented.

914.6 Additional venting required. Additional venting shall be provided when more than one water closet is on a horizontal branch and where the distance from a fixture trap to the stack exceeds the limits in Section 914.4. Where additional venting is required, the fixture(s) shall be vented by individual vents, common vents, wet vents, circuit vents, or a combination waste and vent pipe. The dry vent extensions for the additional venting shall connect to a branch vent, vent stack, stack vent, air admittance valve, or be extended outdoors and terminate to the open air.

914.7 Stack Offsets. Where there are no fixture drain connections below a horizontal offset in a stack, the off-set does not need to be vented. When there are fixture drain connections below a horizontal offset in a stack, the offset shall be vented in accordance with Section 915. There shall be no fixture connections to a stack within 2 feet above and below a horizontal offset.

914.8 Separate Stacks Required. Where stacks are more than two stories high, a separate stack shall be pro-vided for the fixtures on the lower two stories. The stack for the lower two stories may be connected to the branch of the building drain that serves the stack for the upper stories at a point that is at least 10 pipe diame-ters downstream from the base of the upper stack.

914.9 Sizing Building Drains and Sewers. The building drain and branches thereof, and the building sewer in a single stack vent system shall be sized in accordance with Table 710.1(1).

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LEGISLATIVE NEWS SUPPORTING INFORMATION This proposed change is not waste stack venting as described in IPC Section 910. This proposal is a single stack vent system for the entire drainage system, including water closets and urinals.

This proposed change is based on the Philadelphia Plumbing Code, which has used single stack vent systems successfully for over 100 years. The stacks are oversized to provide for the flow of liquid waste, solid waste, and air. The lengths of trap arms are limited and the vertical drops from fixture traps are oversized to prevent the trap from self-siphonage. Fixture drains that do not meet the requirements for a single stack venting system must be conventionally vented in accordance with the other Sections of IPC Chapter 9.

The Philadelphia System is described in Volume 2, Chapter 3 of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) Data Book as follows:

“Philadelphia or one pipe system refers to using one stack instead of having separate drainage and vent stacks. These systems depend on relieving the pressures by making the pipe larger than required for drainage pipe in a two-pipe system. These systems also use unvented traps (“S” traps) that depend on oversized traps and refill from flat bottom fixtures to maintain the trap seal.

This system limits the trap arm length to reduce suction buildup. The size of the main stack is in-creased to limit pressure and vacuum buildup. See Figure 3-8. Check with the local authorities to see if this system is allowed. Contact the City of Philadelphia for specific requirements.”

Note that the trap sizes in the one pipe vent system are comparable to those in IPC Table 709.1 and are not oversized as stated in the ASPE Data Book. What is oversized is any vertical drop that forms an “S” trap. See Section 914.5

The following is a comparison of the stack loading allowed by the various model plumbing codes for conven-tionally vented drainage systems, compared to the one stack vent system:

(a) Based on the total DFU allowed on a stack of more than 3 branch intervals. (b) A 3” stack is limited to two water closets by Table 914.2.

The Philadelphia Plumbing Code allows 75 DFU and six (6) water closets on a 3” stack, which is comparable to a conventionally vented drainage system. This proposal limits a 3” stack to 24 DFU and two (2) water closets, which is comparable to an average dwelling unit.

In the Table above, the allowable DFU loading on 3”, 4”, 5” and 6” stacks in the proposed single stack vent system is 50% or less of that allowed in a conventionally vented system. The percentage of oversize diminishes

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STACK SIZE

PROPOSED SINGLE STACK

PHILADELPHIA PLUMBING

CODE

2000 IPC (a)

2000 NSPC

(a)

2000 UPC (a)

3” 24 (b) 75 72 72 48

4” 225 225 500 500 256

5” 480 480 1100 1100 600

6” 1015 1015 1900 1900 1380

8” 2320 2320 3600 3600 3600

10” 4500 4500 5600 5600 5600

12” 8100 8100 8400 8400 8400

15” 13,600 13,600

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SPEAKING OUT Another Trip West I just returned from an-other trip west to visit my sons, daughter-in –law and grandchildren. So it’s time to review “Motel World” and rate our homes away from home. We changed our fa-vorite place to stay this

year to the Hilton system and headed for the Hampton Inns. They have a points system to earn a free night. I was a little disap-pointed in points system but I’ll get over it.

Beginning with the toilets, they were gen-erally pretty good. Most of the toilets were low flush elongated tank type with reasonable quality seats. The toilet paper was fully dressed with the corners of the top sheet neatly folded under (this is a sign of a really nice motel). The bath tub/showers were both cast iron and or fiberglass

with good mixing valves and great shower heads. One of the tub fill spouts, however, was poorly installed leaving a big gap between the back of the spout and the wall.

I found the lavatory system to be the most difficult to use. Don’t get me wrong they were very nice to look at but difficult to use. The lava-tory counter tops were granite with a under-mount sink. Typically the lav cutout was equally spaced with a 5” front ledge and a 5” back ledge (the same thing happens corian tops). The typical wall hung lav only has a 2” or less front ledge. The problem is the sinks were mounted on a base that was 34” or higher. I can’t understand why we are now mounting non handicapped lavatories at 34”. For me, at 5’ 10” tall, I found it very difficult to lean over the lav and get to short spout and back drain. Plus, the counter top was cold on my naked-ness. The front apron of the counter was more

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Dave Holst

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MARTIN & SMITH, INC. 

11 Vincent Circle ~Ivyland , PA 18974Tel: 215-956-9100 Fax: 215-956-9765

www. msrep.com

NEW

LEGISLATIVE NEWS in the 8”, 10” and 12” stacks. However, stacks that large will be taller than 75 feet or 160 feet and Sec-tion 914.2 will require that they be increased one or two pipe sizes, making the stack loading 50% or less for all stack sizes.

Although the pipe sizing is larger in a single stack vent system, it results in construction cost savings by reducing the amount of vent piping required.

For a complete list of States that are currently up-dated their plumbing codes and a copy of the pro-posed Single Stack Code Change visit the ASPEs website.

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Chapter Presidents Since Inception:

Thank you to our 2012 Sponsors

Trophy Sponsor SPEAKMAN COMPANY

Corporate Sponsors BJ TERRONI

RICH TOMKINS COMPANY MIKE SNYDER & ASSOCIATES

FROET INDUSTRIES ROCKFORD SEPERATORS

LUBRIZOL JAMES MARTIN COMPANY

L&R ASSOCIATES UPONOR

SHERMAN ENGINEERING W&K ENVIRONMENTAL

MERION PUMP CLAPP ASSOCIATES

ROBERT BROWN ASSOCIATES MARTIN & SMITH BARBEIRI & KLINE

HIGHLAND TANK & MANUFACTURING SCALES MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES

ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATES ROI MARKETING

NIBCO

Hole Sponsors COPE WARDELL AMMON ASSOCIATES

VERNON BITZER WHEATLAND TUBE COMPANY

PENN PUMP

Steve Ziga 2012-2014 Jerry S. Oflazian 2008-2012 Joseph M. Smaul 2008-2008 R. Paul Silvestre 2004-2008 Bill O'Donnell 2003-2004 Curtis Ray 2000-2003 David Moreno 1998-2000 Bill O’Donnell 1996-1998 Dave Holst 1994-1996 Ernie Rink 1993-1994 Joe Gallucio 1992-1993 Sevanti Jain 1990-1992 Ernie Rink 1988-1990 David Orrell 1986-1988 Thomas Coughlin 1984-1986 Robert Wagman 1982-1984 George Letherbury 1979-1982 Robert Hunter * 1978-1979 *Interim President

SPEAKING OUT

than 10” deep, so it wasn’t ever good for the handicapped. Lavs used to be mounted at 31” or 32” for normal people and 34” for handicapped (with a maximum 5” front apron). Now it seems like we are all assumed to be sort-of handi-capped. What has happened in Architectural World? What has happened in Hilton/Hampton system? I can’t wait until I get to respond to the Hilton “How was your stay” survey.

Dave Holst, MPLS in 2013

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AFFILIATES CORNER

We look forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming May Technical Meeting. The Table Top Product highlight at our May meeting will be:

Keltech manufactures innovative, tankless water heaters for: · ASME Specified Heaters · Continuous Flow Industrial Applications · Sporadic Water Heating solutions · Specialty Applications

We look forward to seeing everyone on the evening of Thursday, May 30th. .

Be sure to reserve a Table Top now for the 2013-2014 year. Please email us for more information.

Your Philadelphia ASPE Affiliate Liaisons, Alex Barbieri Hugo Gobbi [email protected] [email protected]

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L & R ASSOCIATES, INC. 2262 North Penn Road, P.O. Box 68, Hatfield, PA 19440

Phone: 267-308-0500 ♦ Fax: 267-308-0505 NJ & DE: 1-800-523-6810 ♦ www.landrassocinc.com

[email protected]

Plumbing

Encon Safety Products Evosolar Gastite Jomar Kingspan Lawler Manufacturing Moen Commercial PVI Industries SureSeal

www.enconsafety.com www.evosolar.us www.gastite.com www.jomar.com www.kingspan.com www.lawlervalve.com www.moencommercial.com www.pvi.com www.thesureseal.com

Safety Equipment Solar Thermal Products Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing (CSST) Ball Valves Solar Thermal Hot Water Thermostatic Mixing Valves Faucets / Flush Valves / Fixtures Water Heaters Inline Floor Drain Trap Sealers

HVAC

Crete-Heat Heat Link Laars Heating Systems Tjernlund

www.crete-heat.com www.heatlinkgroup.com www.laars.com www.tjernlund.com

Radiant Floor Foam Insulation Pex-A tubing for radiant and plumbing applications Hydronic Boilers and Water Heaters Ventilation Products

Other

Flexsure Solar Green Revolution Isimet JJM Boiler Works, Inc.

www.flexsure.net www.startthegreenrevolution.com www.isimet.com www.jjmboilerworks.com

Solar Tubing for Thermal Systems Energy Management Solutions Utility Controllers Condensate Neutralizer Tubes / Tanks

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EDUCATION REPORT I could go on about life experiences but remember one thing you will remember your first Job, your last job, good bad or indifferent. I am retiring around the first week of June after 47 years plus doing what I truly loved. I look forward to goofing off when I want to and take that extra time to stop and smell the Roses, and occasionally waxing my old antique truck!

I will continue my role with the Philadelphia Chapter of ASPE enjoying the task of educating our young mem-bers. Our Board of Governors and Board members are inspiring and dedicated men and women who care about our Chapter and the membership I salute you

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Left to right front row Brian Lim, Sara Murphy and Alex Baugh, back row Joe Adams and Mark Pisarek.

The following persons could not attend and their certificates will be mailed to them;

Keith Bidel, James Green Jr., Joel Banks, Cliff Miller, Vanessa McIntire, Evan Bycer, Mamadou Guisse.

Congratulations to all.

We look forward to seeing you for Plumbing two this Fall.

Mike Panco

PLUMBING SCHOOL

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Apri l ’s Dinner Speakers

Thank you to Mike Panco from Furlow Associates Thank you to Jerry O’Flazion From AKF Engineering

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ASPE 2012-13 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS May 30, 2013 Dinner Meeting: Pipe Support Systems (Holdrite/Keystone)

June 2013 Special Meeting: To be announced

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IN ATTENDANCE AT APRIL’S DINNER MEETING

Joe Adane

Alex Baugh

John Bisacquino

Dawn Bishop

Kevin Brace

Jaime DelaRosa

Walt Emerle

James Eyrich

Bruce Falkenstein

Ana Feliciano

Geoff Fountain

Sean Hughes

Sevanti Jain

Pat Keeny

Bill Klock

John Lee

Brian Lim

Matthew Martin

Patrick Mullen

Don Nowicke

Jerry Oflazian

Mike Panco

Marc Pisarek

Matthew Schnieder

Joe Sgrillo

Pat Shovlin

Dave Smith

Bob Van Etten

Scott Wardell

Mike Witkowski

Ryan Wolfe

Craig Yung

Joe Zagorski

Steve Ziga