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President’s Report
April 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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May Lunch Meeting
May 11, 2015
Spaghetti Warehouse
397 West Broad
Columbus, OH 43215
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
$20.00 per meal
SUBJECT: Emergency Fixtures and ANSI Z358.1
SPEAKER: Travis McKnight,
Regional Sales Manager for Guardian Industries
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.
Spring! It’s here! Well it’s supposed to be anyway and officially it was as of March 20th. The only thing I can say is if it’s here then why am I still freezing my butt off? But it sure does beat sub zero weather! Baseball, soccer, softball and all of the other spring activities are starting to ramp up and we as a Chapter are starting to wind down for the year. The May meeting will be our last organized meeting and along with that comes the dreaded Elections! Our last meeting will be in June and as every-body knows it will be held at the golf course (Chad will dispute the fact that this meeting is not organized, just ask him! In fact this is a very intensely organized meeting and Chad and the Golf Committee deserve a huge amount of credit for all of the time and effort that is put into making our Golf Outing one of the best in the Society.).
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 6th. 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 themselves obviously) to provide transport for the activities on Friday night the 5th and to help with the meeting on Saturday
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Bill Deardurff Vice President Legislative
VP Legislative—Bill Deardurff
I recently confirmed with Jack Soma, Chief Plumbing Inspector for the State of Ohio, there are no Plumbing Code changes planned or “in the pipe line” until at least January 2017.
The International Code Council has updated its free E Code site. You can access Ohio’s codes at: http://codes.iccsafe.org/ Click on Ohio on the map or on the tabs to the left. There you will find current electronic ver-sions of Ohio’s codes with all amendments through January 1, 2015, including:
2013 Ohio Residential Code
2011 Ohio Building Code
2011 Ohio Mechanical Code
2011 Ohio Plumbing Code
2011 Ohio Fire Code
2009 I-Codes Extendex
Enhance your career at the ASPE Tech-
nical Symposium
ASPE welcomes all plumbing industry profes-
sionals interested in learning new skills to
bolster their careers to the 2015 Technical
Symposium being held October 1-4 in St.
Louis. The technical education program will
feature sessions on water reuse systems,
Revit 2016, medical gas systems, project
management, and more. Education tracks are
available for entry-level, intermediate, and
advanced skill levels, offering a variety of
training options for professionals at all career
levels.
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Spring has arrived and the robins are back. Soon it will be summer. And, when you think about summer, what comes to mind first?
That’s right. It’s the ASPE golf outing.
Our outing this year will be held on Tuesday, June 23rd, again at the Golf Club of Dublin. Make arrangements for the day off and join us for the best deal in a business/social out-
ing in central Ohio.
We’ll have a shotgun start at 10:00 A.M. However, get there early and practice your game on the free driving range or putting green. As your group passes the 9th hole, stop at the outdoor grill for a fresh sandwich
and beverage.
After golf, join everyone for the famous ASPE
Happy Hour, followed by a delicious dinner.
To wind up the day, we’ll give away some
fabulous prizes, sure to please you.
What’s the cost of this super day of golf and
fellowship, among industry associates?
Single player: $ 115.00
“Early Bird” Foursome: $ 460.00
Postmarked after June 1st: $ 500.00
Want to advertise your company support of the Central Ohio ASPE chapter? Here’s a few
great ways to accomplish your goal:
Tee/Green sponsor: $ 60.00
Driving range sponsor: $ 125.00
Exclusive hole sponsor: $ 200.00
Happy Hour sponsor $ 200.00
On-course beverages: $ 300.00
Lunch sponsor: $ 300.00
Dinner sponsor: $ 300.00
EVENT SPONSOR $1,200.00*
*Includes free foursome of golfers/2 hole sponsorships/1 clubhouse sponsorship/1 year full page ad in our chapter newsletter and
recognition in the “ASPE Pipeline”.
All sponsorships will be advertised in the Cen-
tral Ohio chapter newsletter. In addition, we
will have specific recognition for all sponsors
during the dinner hour. We will make certain
you get maximum exposure for your advertis-
ing dollars.
Come out and support the local ASPE chapter during our annual golf outing. It’s always one of the most memorable and competitive sum-mer golf outings in the construction commu-
nity.
We’ll have engineers, architects, contractors, suppliers, code officials, factory and inde-pendent reps, all joining together for a day of
fun and relaxation together.
Mark your calendar and set aside June 23rd
for this event.
Central Ohio ASPE Chapter
P.O. Box 2571
Columbus, OH 43216
Don’t play golf and still want to be a part of the outing this year? We need volunteers to staff ‘game holes’. In return for your day, we provide you with the free lunch, on-course beverages, a free dinner and prize tickets. You will be specifically recognized during the
dinner hour as well.
Contact Eric Leman at (614) 457-2696 x28,
for further volunteer information.
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Chad Dupler Vice President Membership
VP Membership—Chad Dupler
Greetings Membership,
Everything going good? Spring has sprung and so has my hibernating “honey-do” list. That’s ok, if it means warmer weather. I’ll take it.
Not much happening on the membership front nationally that I’ve been made aware of. We currently have 5,814 members worldwide. That’s down 32 members from a year ago and over 580 members from 5 years ago. That’s 10%. Pretty substantial drop I’d say. That also means that society has lost in membership revenue about $101,500.00 since then. That means that they, like us, have had to do more with less. Get more creative. Think outside the box. Society has. Did you know that as a mem-ber you have never had more opportunities and information from ASPE than now. Right at your fingertips!
Locally our numbers over that same 5 year time period have been extremely consistent. We’re
up 2 members from a year ago and sitting at the same member count as we were 5 years ago, 75. There’s a lot to be said for consistency. Stands the test of time, right?
Congrats go out to Jerry Capriotti at Dynamix. He was our “Free Lunch” winner at our meeting earlier this month. Membership has its privileg-es. You a member?
The golf outing is a month and a half away. Get you foursome together and get signed up. Hey all you engineers, get your firm be a sponsor. Eric Leman with Heapy is challenging your firm to step up and support your chapter at this year’s outing by being a sponsor. He’s put his money where his mouth is by sponsoring a hole. You can too. Fill out the form in this newsletter and get it in to us.
Yours in Membership,
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Region 2 Affiliate Liaison —- Dann Holmes
Region 2 Affiliate Liaison Report
Last month at this time, the entire ASPE Region 2 was in an Arctic Freeze, a Polar Vortex, a Si-berian Express, I could go on and on. I think it’s safe to say we’ve weathered that storm; spring is officially here and it’s time to move outdoors.
Grab your golf clubs! Many of our chapters are hosting their annual golf outings soon. I wrote about most of them last month as well as some exciting tours. Please check your local chapter website or better yet, attend this month’s meet-ing for details. I for one am planning to attend the W MI ASPE tour of Bell’s Brewery on April 8th. Don’t worry, I’m the designated driver.
Speaking of warming temperatures, I was fortu-nate to attend NPE2015: The International Plas-tics Showcase in Orlando, FL the week of March 23rd. It was hot and humid; it rained eve-ry day but I stayed dry. Why? Because, I was either in a hotel, working a booth or walking over the 1.06 million sq ft of exhibitor floor space spread out across two halls. Talk about sore feet.
The event drew more than 65,000 visitors, 2,000+ exhibitors, a record 43 percent of them were from outside the US. Putting this into per-spective, it is roughly equal to AHR. The show is held every three years. When the event re-turns in 2018, it is expected to be the third larg-est of all the events in the US.
Why plastics? Well, because plastics are in every part of our daily life. Leaving the automo-bile, medical, aerospace and food industries aside, plastics are used heavily throughout the plumbing and heating industry.
Consider the wide use of PVC, CPVC, PE, LDPE, HDPE, PE-RT, PP, PP-R, ABS and PEX. I’ll bet at least one of these pipe & fitting systems are used on every project you come in contact with.
For any type of plastic material, there are of course “ingredients”. Lots of ingredients! These materials along with the wall thickness make up the unique properties of a piping system. Does it bend easy or is it rigid? Which is better? Does it matter? How does it hold up when subjected higher temperatures? What about acid waste?
As most chapters will soon be thinking about topics for next year maybe this would be a good one for an ASPE presentation? If you’d like to know more about this topic and the testing that is required for plastic pipe and fittings, let me know. I’d like to expand on this further.
Let me leave you with one last thought on plas-tic pipe. This year marks the 50th anniversary of NSF/ANSI 14 - Plastics Piping System Compo-nents and Related Materials.
Happy Birthday!
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
(8am – 4:30-5:00pm). Anyone who would like to volunteer please contact Hanse, myself, Chad, Brad or Tom. More information to follow. All of the volunteers will receive a free dinner on Friday night and/or lunch on Saturday.
As you know elections are fast approaching and will be held at our May meeting. They will be just a little different than in years past. The Board voted unanimously to make two changes starting with this year’s election cycle. The Board voted to change the length of the Board members terms from the current one year to two year terms. This will put us on the same cycle that Society Board members are elected, but on opposite years. It also has the benefit of us not having to scramble to find members to run for the Board and also hold an election every year. The other change the Board voted for was to add the Board position of Vice President of Education. This has been a Board position for a number of years now, but not a re-quired position for our Chapter because of our Chapter category based on the number of members in our Chapter. The Board felt it was time to add this position so that we could better serve the Chapter’s members with quality education opportunities and to oversee the Chapter Scholarship fund. With that being said we are looking for a member to volunteer to run for the position. Please contact any Board member if you would like to run. The Vice President of Education responsibilities will be essentially creating education programs in the form of seminars for the Chapter membership and overseeing the Chapter’s Scholarship Fund.
Registration for the 2015 ASPE Technical Symposium is now open. The Symposium is being held in St. Louis this year at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch. The room rate is $129.00 a night. A couple of new features this year in addition to the technical sessions will be the AYP Professionals Leadership Conference and networking event and a product show. For more information and to register for the
(Continued from page 1) Symposium, go to aspe.org/2015-ts-home-
page.
Technical articles are now being sought for the next edition of ASPE Journal. ASPE is looking for in-depth, non-proprietary technical articles on plumbing system design topics for its mem-bers-only ASPE Journal. To submit an article or for more information, contact [email protected].
The next Certified in Plumbing Design Techni-cian (CPDT) will be held at testing sites across the country on October 29 – 30, 2015. Registra-tion will open in July.
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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
Emergency Fixtures and ANSI Z358.1
June 23, 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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