For quite a while now I’ve been interested in
radiant systems and hydronics, having been introduced to them through the
writings and webinars of our Hydronics Editor John Siegenthaler, P.E.
“Go West,” ASPE members were told this year - so
I did in late October, spending two days in Long Beach, CA, at the American
Society of Plumbing Engineers’ biennial Convention and Engineered Plumbing Exposition
(EPE).
This past summer, PM Engineer magazine added a
bimonthly column on solar design, written by hydronics guru John Siegenthaler,
P.E. Response to the column, called “Solar Design Notebook,” has been very
favorable, which surprises neither Siggy nor anyone else on the staff of PME.
In fact, insights that I’ve gained from Siggy’s columns have
already proven very helpful to me on two occasions...
Uncertainty going in…certainty coming
out. That’s the shortest summary I can give of my view of cast
iron as a “green” material following last Thursday's MEC Webinar by John
Siegenthaler, P.E. (Siggy). His 60-plus-minute presentation, called Cast-Iron
Boiler Technology: Past, Present, and Future, talked at length about why cast iron boilers can no
longer be seen through “rust-colored” glasses.
Forget football. Forget politics. Fall is Webinar season-and
it’s back.
That’s right. The
Fall 2008 Modern Engineering Concepts Webinar Series kicks off next Thursday, Sept. 11, (1 pm ET) when yours
truly gets to moderate an extremely interesting session...
In the first installment of an exclusive roundtable series, these women explain how they came to the profession and the daily fulfillment it offers them.