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President’s Report
March 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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April Lunch Meeting
April 13, 2015
Spaghetti Warehouse
397 West Broad
Columbus, OH 43215
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
$20.00 per meal
SUBJECT: Backflow Prevention Devices
SPEAKER: Jeff Hawkins,
Watts Water Technologies
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 officially its here as of March 20th. The only thing I can say is IT’S ABOUT TIME! Even though it is not that warm out yet, it sure beats sub zero weather! I’m looking forward to getting outside without freezing my you know what off and yes I’m even looking forward to the yard work. I would like to take this opportunity to wish everybody and their families a Happy Easter. Yep that’s right the Easter Bunny is just around the corner. HAPPY EASTER everybody!
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 transportation for the activities on Friday night the 5th and to help with the meeting on Satur-day the 6th. Saturday is from 8am – 4:30/5:00pm. Anyone who would like to volun-teer please contact Hanse, myself, Chad, Brad or Tom. More information to follow.
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. At the
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VP Technical—Tony Furst
Tony Furst Vice President Technical
We appear to have rounded the corner and put the worst of the cold and snow behind us and warm weather will soon be here. I for one am looking forward to being able to put the boat back in the water.
National Engineers Week was the last week in February and Hanse Cromer and I were fortu-nate enough to make a presentation on plumb-ing engineering to the junior and senior pre-
engineering students at South Western Career Academy. All I can say is that there are some really great young people looking to the future and becoming engineers. I encourage each of you to reach out to your local school districts and offer to speak to the students about ca-reers in engineering. We have the ASPE Socie-ty PowerPoint presentation for anyone that is interested. If you would prefer to volunteer one of your chapter officers to be the speaker we
can arrange that as well.
For the month of April we will have Mr. Jeff Hawkins, National Product Manager for Watts Water Technologies, responsible for all Testa-ble Backflow products under the Watts, Ames, and FEBCO brands. Jeff will be covering the application and selection of backflow preven-tion devices as well as issues to avoid.
Our program year has been an exciting one and I hope that everyone is enjoying the variety of technical topics we are covering. I would love to hear from you our members on any specific topics you would like to see covered please drop me an e-mail to [email protected] or call me at 614 397-
6697.
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Bill Deardurff Vice President Legislative
VP Legislative—Bill Deardurff
Here are a few recent highlights from ASPE Pipeline:
Registration is open for the 2015 ASPE Technical Symposium
This year's premier event for plumbing engi-neering professional development will be held October 1-4 in St. Louis. New features include an ASPE Young Professionals Leadership Conference and networking event in addition to ASPE’s in-depth technical education sessions and product show. To learn more and register, go to aspe.org/2015-ts-home-page. ASPE has secured a low room rate of $129 at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch just for Technical Symposi-um attendees, so make sure you don’t miss out!
Green Plumbing Design workshop be-ing held September 30-October 1
Your next chance to earn the Green Plumbing Design (GPD) designation will be in St. Louis prior to the 2015 ASPE Technical Symposium. Go to aspe.org/GPD or contact [email protected] for more information on this certificate program sponsored by ASPE and IAPMO. Registration will be available soon.
Public comments sought on two new plumbing industry standards
ARCSA/ASPE 78: Stormwater Harvesting System Design for Direct End-Use Applications and WQA/ASPE 1201: Electrochemical Drinking Water Treatment Systems are open for public comment here. Comments will be accepted until April 13, 2015.
Proposed changes to the 2015 I-Codes are available for review
Proposed public comment changes to the next editions of the Group A codes, which include the International Plumbing Code, International Mechanical Code, and International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, can be found here. These changes will be considered at the ICC Commit-tee Action Hearings on April 19-28 in Memphis.
New publication details solar energy code and standards requirements 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 design webinars The following webinars are being offered as part of ASPE’s CEU Provider Program: Fire-stop Systems on April 7, and Acoustic Systems on May 12.
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Chad Dupler Vice President Membership
VP Membership—Chad Dupler
Greetings Membership,
It’s about over. Winter that is. Bout time, right? Hey, we have new members. Two to be exact. Fred Johnson with EM Engineering and Tom Deberson joins us with Famous Supply. Wel-come aboard gentleman. If you guys haven’t done so already, check out ASPE’s website. www.aspe.org . There is a ton of good infor-mation there. Especially look under the “industry resources” tab. There’s a state codes section there among other things that will be of good benefit. Take a look. Bet you didn’t know it was there. There’s a lot of new things on the website that will be sure to amaze and delight.
Mark down June 23rd on your calendar. The 2015 Central Ohio ASPE Golf Outing is coming to town. Being held once again the beautiful and enchanting Golf Club of Dublin. Can a golf
course be enchanting? I don’t know but it sound-ed good. Anyway, gather your foursomes to-gether and let’s play some golf. See details in this here newsletter and be on the lookout for registration and sponsorship information coming to an email address near you.
Members have you ever looked at the ASPE Journal? The February 2015 edition of ASPE’s members-only publication features articles on wet venting, loop distribution for high-purity water systems, and legislative updates from around the industry. (Member login required.) https://aspe.org/aspejournal.
That’s all for now. Get your clubs out of the basement and dust them off June 23rd will be here before you know it.
Yours in Membership,
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Region 2 Affiliate Liaison —- Dann Holmes
Region 2 Affiliate Liaison Report
By the time you read this article, maybe, just maybe outdoor temperatures will begin to approach their seasonal average. I have my doubts. This year, it’s been one deep-freeze after another. I’m thinking Re-gion 2 will set an all-time lowest average tempera-ture for the month of February. Doesn’t that just make you want to look square into Punxsutawney Phil’s eyes? ¤¤
As we SPRING forward, we’ll feel the warmth of the sun, witness the snow melting, the ground thawing, see trees budding and flowers bloom, and hear the wonderful sounds of chirping birds. Ah springtime! :)
As our SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) spirits are lifted we’ll break out the golf clubs (the way I golf, I’m better off to just break them!). ASPE Chapters across Region 2 will be ramping up their trade show, golf outing and special event activities.
On February 28th & March 21st, the Pittsburgh Chap-ter will host their “Counseling the Boy Scouts of America Plumbing Merit Badge” at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
On March 10th the Eastern MI Chapter will hold their annual NASPE Car Races at the PITC in Troy. March 11th is World Plumbing Day. On this day the Greater Toronto ASPE Chapter will hold their next meeting. This is a big deal as they are very close to becoming a full chapter!
Also on March 11th the Northern Ohio Chapter will be touring the Great Lakes Brewery. The Buffalo-
Niagara Chapter is hosting their annual Trade Show March 25 at The Grapevine Banquets in Depew, NY.
Western MI has two upcoming events, a tour of the
recently updated Bell’s Brewery in Galesburg on April 8th. On May 19th they will hold their annual golf at the Quail Ridge GC in Ada.
Southwest Ohio will celebrate their annual ASPE Night with the Dayton Dragons on May 29th. You can join the Central Ohio Chapter on June 16th for their annual golf outing.
In addition to their Boy Scout Plumbing Merit Badge events, the Pittsburgh Chapter will be hosting their annual golf outing at the River Forest GC in Free-port on June 19th. The Rochester Chapter is also planning a June golf outing but has not yet finalized their plans.
The Central Ohio Chapter will host their annual golf outing at the Golf Club of Dublin June 23rd. The Evansville Satellite Chapter will host their 3rd annual golf outing at the Cambridge GC on June 25th. Fol-lowing this, Central Indiana will hold their annual golf outing at the Ironwood GC NE of Indy on Au-gust 7th.
As you see, there is a lot of activity throughout Re-gion 2. So wash the salt off your cars, enjoy the longer days of sunshine and drive to your local ASPE chapter meeting. Engage. Contribute. Edu-cate and Learn.
Please take time out to participate in the festivities. Often these events are the main fundraisers for our chapters. For those attending the Brewery tours, find a designated driver you can count on.
If I could find the time and travel to each of the golf events listed here I’d get some real practice in this year. Maybe my clubs would like me more, and vice-versa!
As always, please feel free to contact me at: Dann Holmes – ASPE Region 2 Affiliate Liaison
NSF International – Business Development Manag-er [email protected] or (734) 214-6222
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Mark Simpson Chapter President
last Board meeting the Board voted unanimous-ly 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 and also with a lot of the other Chapters in the Society. It also has the benefit of us not having to scramble to find members to run for the Board and to 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 required position for our Chapter due to our Chapter Category which is based on the num-ber of members in our Chapter. The Board felt it was time to add this position so that we could better serve the Central Ohio members with quality education opportunities and also 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 member-ship and overseeing the Chapter’s Scholarship and Scholarship fund.
The Certified in Plumbing Design (CPD) exam registration is now closed. The CPD exam is being held April 9th and 10th at testing sites across the country. A new feature this year is that 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 materials will be approved, go to the ASPE website https://aspe.org/CPDOpenBookFAQs.
Registration is now open for the 2015 ASPE Technical Symposium is now open. The Sympo-sium 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
(Continued from page 1) and networking event and a product show. For more information and to register for the Symposium, go to aspe.org/2015-ts-home-
page.
If you would like to know what the Society’s Board of Directors are 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. 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 Harvest-ing System Design for Direct End-Use Applica-tion 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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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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