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Updated for March on 03/07/2012
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Fire Pump Sizing and Selection When starting a fire pump design, the most important item to consider is the water supply. If you are utilizing the city water supply as the primary source for the pump, you need to make sure that an ... >> More |
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Geothermal forecast In 2011, the Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO) established itself as the voice of the geothermal heat pump industry. We now have a full-time spokesperson, and we’ve renewed and ... >> More |
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The 2012 Uniform Plumbing Code The newly released 2012 Uniform Plumbing Code aids the user with improved layout design features and the incorporation of our manual of style and innovative efficiency standards and sustainable ... >> More |
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What’s New in the 2012 International Plumbing Code® The IPC continues to emphasize both prescriptive and performance-related provisions. The code changes have made many improvements to the 2012 code that provide clarity of content, resolve ... >> More |
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Value Engineering with PEX-a Plumbing Systems We live in challenging economic times for the commercial construction industry, where good projects are tough to win and being profitable can be even tougher. In this competitive environment, landing ... >> More |
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Duality of personality: A day in the life of a purchasing mgmr. I would like to start this month’s column with hearty congratulations to Tom Brown, all the folks at TMB Publications, Jim Kendzel, the ASPE board and the entire ASPE staff for reuniting ASPE and Plumbing ... >> More |
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Warning! Anti-scald shower valves can scald you! Every year, thousands of people suffer serious thermal shock and/or scalding injuries in showers or combination tub/shower fixtures. Tens of millions of currently installed code compliant shower valves, ... >> More |
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Retrofitting plumbing fixtures in existing buildings ... As reported by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) last December, for the first time “LEED-certified existing buildings are outpacing their newly built counterparts … square footage of ... >> More |
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Elevators and sprinklers, Part 2 Last month I went through the provisions in NFPA 13 and ASME A17.1 regarding sprinklers in elevator hoistways and machine rooms. This month I will present two approaches to providing sprinklers in these ... >> More |
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Retrofit example: Overheat-cooling thermosyphon loop I have recently received a number of inquiries about the control of overheating in solar collectors. This is especially important when using large groups of solar heat collectors connected with closed-loop ... >> More |