I am often asked, “How do you remove the stranglehold that the union has on the Uniform Plumbing Code and Uniform Mechanical Code?” My answer is always the same — you outvote them at the Annual Conference at the end of the code change cycle.
That is exactly what happened at the IAPMO Annual Conference, held the second week of September, in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the morning of the code hearings, it was announced that there were 466 registered voting members. All appeared to be in the room. It is the largest crowd I can remember seeing for the past 25 years. There were many shocked expressions from IAPMO regulars when voting took place.