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President’s Report
February 2015
The American Society of Plumbing Engineers
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION
CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER P. O. Box 2571 Columbus, OH 43216-2571
Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society
Reminder— We will be taking reservations for lunch meetings only via e-mail.
Prior to each meeting you will receive an email from me with details of the meeting. Please email me your reservation for the meeting by simply clicking on the reply button. Type YES if you are going to attend or NO if you can’t make it. Then SEND your reply. If you have a guest, send his/her name and company in the body of the response.
Donald E. Konkle
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March Lunch Meeting
March 9, 2015
Spaghetti Warehouse
397 West Broad
Columbus, OH 43215
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
$20.00 per meal
SUBJECT: Sump Pump and Pit Sizing
and Selection
SPEAKER: Steve Doolittle,
Zoeller
PLEASE REMEMBER, if you make a reservation, you are expected to pay, whether you attend or not. Cancellation deadline it 5:30pm the Thursday before the meeting.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! The big freeze is upon us!
Single digit and negative temperatures and
negative wind chills make you wonder if it is
ever going to get warm again. Since the
ground hog saw his shadow we have another
two weeks minimum of these brutal tempera-
tures, but not to worry spring and warm
weather is on its way. It may take a while but it
will eventually get here. I don’t know about you
but the older I get the more I look forward to
the warm weather. Everybody stay warm!
Some Chapter news: It is the Central Ohio
Chapter’s turn to host the Region 2 president’s
meeting this year. The meeting will be held the
first weekend in June which is June 5th and 6
th.
The president’s meeting committee, with
Hanse Cromer as the committee chair, is hard
at work planning the event. We will need
volunteers to man the host reception table at
the hotel to greet the other Chapter attendees
and to volunteer their vehicles (and them-
selves obviously) to provide transport for the
activities on Friday night the 5th and to help
with the meeting on Saturday, which is from
8am – 4:30-5:00pm. More information to
follow.
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VP Legislative—Bill Deardurff
Board of Building Standards Stakeholder Meeting
The Board of Building Standards will conduct a Stakeholder Meeting to hear comments and respond to questions on the proposed amend-ments summarized below on March 13, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Training Room 1, 6606 Tussing Road, Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. All interested stakeholders are invited to attend. The agenda for the meeting is as fol-lows: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Proposed Ohio
Building Code Rules 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Proposed Ohio
Plumbing Code Rules
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Proposed Ohio Mechanical Code Rules
Proposed Ohio Plumbing Code Rules The Board proposes to amend the Ohio Admin-istrative Code as follows: 4101:3-2-01 to add definitions for above-ground storage tank, building service equipment, containment back-flow prevention device, engine-mounted device, fuel tank, isolation and backflow prevention device, to modify definitions for combination waste and vent system, listed and plumbing fixture and to delete definitions for third party certification agency, third party certified and third part tested; 4101:3-3-01 to clarify that materials should include markings required by the referenced standards, to change ‘third party’ to ‘approved agency’ and clarifying language, to delete third party requirements in Table 303.4, to clarify that insulation is required for each hot water pipe when bundled, to reference § 1612 of the building code for flood resistance, to clarify plastic pipe testing procedure, to clarify plastic pipe testing procedure, to clarify isolation backflow prevention device inspection and testing procedure as a result of coordination with OEPA, to add operational testing of low pressure cut-off device, low suction throttling valves, and variable speed suction limiting
controls as a result of coordination with OEPA and to make general editorial corrections; 4101:3-4-01 to add specific plumbing fixture requirements for casinos and to add a service sink exemption for business and mercantile occupancies with occupant load fewer than 15 in Table 403.1, to allow family or assisted-use toilet facilities to serve as separate facilities, to clarify toilet room location, to clarify drinking fountain fixture locations, to remove Figure 405.3.1, to modify the minimum number of drinking fountains required and exceptions, to remove reference to commercial food waste grinders, to modify the language requiring tempered water for public hand-washing facili-ties, to add standard for liquid-type, trowel-applied, load-bearing, bonded waterproof materials, to add requirements for water closet personal hygiene devices and to make general editorial corrections; 4101:3-6-01 to modify reference standards, add pipe as well as tub-ing, and add polyethylene of raised tempera-ture (PE-RT) plastic tubing in Table 605.3, to add polyethylene of raised temperature (PE-
RT) plastic tubing and reference standard in Table 605.4, to modify reference standards and to add polyethylene of raised temperature (PE-
RT) plastic tubing and reference standard in Table 605.5, to add polyethylene of raised temperature plastic requirements, to add PE-
RT flared joints and mechanical joints require-ments, to add variable speed suction limiting controls to booster pump requirements and to clarify jurisdiction as a result of coordination with OEPA, to add temperature limiting means to hot water supply system requirements, to specify installation of temperature-actuated mixing valves and to make general editorial corrections; 4101:3-9-01 to clarify the length of a combination drain and vent system shall be unlimited and to add § 920 Single Stack Vent System; 4101:3-13-01 to add ASME standards A112.4.2-2008, ASTM standards F2735-09 and F2769-09, WWA standards C901-08 and C904-08, CSA standards B45.10, B45.15, B125.1, B125.2, B125.6, B356-05, and B483.1-
07, to update ASME standards A112.18.1, A112.18.2, A112.18.3, A112.18.6, A112.19.1,
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Region 2 Affiliate Liaison —- Dann Holmes
ASPE Region 2 Affiliate Liaison Report
If you’re like me, you’ve hit the ground running this year. Travel in January took me to Toronto, Las Ve-gas and Chicago. I attended KBIS 2015 (Kitchen & Bath Industry Show) held at the Las Vegas Conven-tion Center January 20-22. This show was held in conjunction with IBS 2015 (NAHB International Builder’s Show). This annual event draws in nearly 125,000 residential design and construction profes-sionals including engineers as well as manufactur-ers and their product management teams.
Exhibitors at KBIS/IBS showcase their latest prod-ucts and designs as well as the improvements they’ve made in technical performance. Focusing on plumbing related items, you’ll find everything from bar & bath faucets, bath sinks, bathtubs, kitchen faucets, kitchen sinks, showers, shower enclosures and water closets.
You’ll also find everything that is hidden behind our walls including all varieties of pipe, fittings, valves, backflow devices, and every pipe joining method available to the industry. You should experience KBIS/IBS for yourself. Mark your calendar. It will be held January 19-21, 2016 at the same venue.
What seemed to be an immediate turnaround, I spent a day recuperating from Las Vegas and head-ed right back out. This time to attend the 2015 AHR Expo (ASHRAE) held in Chicago. This show shat-tered an all-time attendance record of 62,000. Peo-ple traveled from 140 different countries to experi-
ence this HVAC/R event.
What’s different about the AHR Expo from KBIS/IBS show is not only the HVAC/R focus but it is tailored more for the engineering community.
This was a great opportunity for me to meet with manufacturers from abroad looking to enter the NA marketplace. I spoke with quite a few companies seeking advice on exactly how to do this.
As you can imagine, each country has unique per-formance and health effects testing as well as regu-latory requirements. Although the United States and Canada try to harmonize many of their standards and tests, this can still be a daunting and confusing task for someone unfamiliar with them. With confu-sion comes unwarranted expense.
With that said, look for new and innovative compa-nies to add sales engineers and reps firms as they seek product approvals from certification bodies and state authorities so they enter into an already com-petitive market.
You may wonder what I found to be one of the most interesting announcements made. It may be long overdue but you will see press technology devel-oped for the refrigeration market on your local dis-tributor’s shelves soon!
As always, please feel free to contact me at:
Dann Holmes – ASPE Region 2 Affiliate Liaison
NSF International – Business Development Manager [email protected] or (734) 214-6222
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Mark Simpson Chapter President
The Certified in Plumbing Design (CPD) exam
registration closes March 2, 2015. The CPD exam
is being held April 9th and 10th at testing sites across
the country. To register go to the ASPE website
https://aspe.org/CPD. A new feature this year is the
test is open book and you are allowed to take up to
six reference materials into the testing center. For
more information on what type of reference materi-
als will be approved, go to the ASPE website
https://aspe.org/CPDOpenBookFAQs. To help in
preparing for the exam, ASPE has created a CPD
review webinar series. To register for the review
webinar go to
https://aspe.org/CPDReviewWebinarRegister.
Registration for the review webinar closes March
12, 2015.
The February edition of ASPE Journal is now
available on the ASPE website at aspe.org/aspejournal. Member login is required to
view it.
If you would like to know what the Board of Directors is up to, the first quarter 2015 ASPE Board Report is now available for your perusal. To review the report, go to the following website: https://aspe.org/BODnewsletter. Again, member login is required.
ASPE has two new standards open for public review. A joint effort by the American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association (ARCSA) and ASPE, ARCSA/ASPE 78: Stormwater Harvesting System Design for Direct End-Use Application and the Water Quality Association (WQA) and ASPE, WQA/ASPE 1201: Electrochemical Drinking Water Treatment Systems. Both standards will open for public review and comment on February 27, 2015 and comments will be accepted until April 13, 2015. The standards may be found here: https://aspe.org/content/aspe-standards-public-review.
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Bill Deardurff Vice President Legislative
A112.19.2, A112.19.3, A112.19.5, A112.19.7, CSA standards B45.1, B45.2, B45.4, and to remove ASME standards A112.19.6, A112.19.8M, A112.19.9M, and A112.19.13 and ASSE standards 1009-90. These proposed rules can be viewed here: http://www.com.ohio.gov/documents/di-co_OPCproposedchangesforMarch2015stakeholdermeeting.pdf
Here are a couple recent highlights from ASPE Pipeline; Learn about double-containment piping systems at the next ASPE webinar On March 25 at 2 p.m. EDT, the newest ASPE webinar, Double-Containment Piping Systems, will explore applications, EPA regulations, material selection, system design, and leak detection methods for these systems. Nonmem-bers: click here to learn how to attend this webinar for free.
New publication details solar energy code and standards requirements
(Continued from page 3) 2015 International Solar Energy Provisions organizes all of the solar thermal and photovol-taic safety code provisions from the 2015 International Codes and industry standards of the ICC Solar Rating & Certification Corpora-tion in one convenient publication.
Holdrite announces plumbing system de-sign webinars The following webinars are being offered as part of ASPE’s CEU Provider Program: Pipe Hangers and Supports on March 3, Firestop Systems on April 7, and Acoustic Systems on May 12.
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ASPE CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER 2014-2015
MEETING and EVENT SCHEDULE
September 8,2014 ASSE Standard 12000
October 8, 20134 Joint ASPE/MCACO/ASHRAE/SFPE
Meeting
November 10, 2014 Domestic Water Booster Systems
December 8, 2014 CPVC Piping Systems VE Decisions
January 12, 2015 Seismic Restraint and Vibration Control
February 9, 2015 ASPE President
March 9,2015 Sump Pump and Pit Sizing and Selection
April 13, 2015 Backflow Prevention Devices
May 11, 2015 Elections
TBD
June 16, 2015 ASPE Golf Outing
President
Mark G. Simpson, CPD
Kohrs Lonnemann Heil Engineers, PSC
Two Miranova Place, Suite 280
Columbus, Ohio 43215
614-228-2180 Fax: 614-228-2183
Vice President, Technical
Tony Furst
Bruner Corporation
3637 Lacon Road
Hilliard, Ohio 43026
614-334-9000 Fax: 614-334-9001
Vice President, Legislative
Bill Deardurff, CPD
Dynamix Engineering
855 Grandview Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43215
614-443-1178 Fax: 614-443-1594
Vice President, Membership
Chad Dupler
Campbell Equipment Co.
P.O. Box 493
Millersport, Ohio 43046
800-466-3050 Fax 419-874-4705
Treasurer
Hanse Cromer
Steffens-Shultz, Inc.
525 Industrial Mile Road
Columbus, Ohio 43228
614-274-5515 Fax: 614-274-0126
Administrative Secretary
Brad Fitzsimmons
Bruner Corporation
3637 Lacon Road
Hilliard, Ohio 43026
614-334-9000 Fax: 614-334-9001
Corresponding Secretary
Greg Hochstetler, PE, LEED AP
Speer Mechanical
5255 Sinclair Road
Columbus, Ohio 43229
614-261-6331 Fax 614-261-6330
Affiliate Liaison
Thom Rauenswinder
Spears Manufacturing
590 Industrial Drive
Lewisberry, PA 17339
614-766-5294
E-mail: [email protected]
Officers
The Central Ohio chapter of ASPE newsletter is published as a forum for
its members. Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those
of the society, the Central Ohio chapter or its editors.
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