In late October, Julius Ballanco, P.E., was elected president of ASPE during its biennial Conference and Engineered Plumbing Exposition in Tampa, FL.
Ballanco is president of J.B. Engineering and Code Consulting, P.C., a consulting engineering firm in Munster, IN, he started 16 years ago. Prior to that, Ballanco served as head of plumbing and mechanical engineering for Building Officials and Code Administrators International (BOCA), one of the organizations that formed the International Code Council (ICC). However, Ballanco likes to say that "he was long gone before the three model code groups started talking about a merger."