The Central Florida ASPE chapter likes to think outside the box.

There’s a one-panel strip of the absurdist newspaper comic “The Far Side” that I remember well from childhood. It shows human-sized insects sitting in a theater for a horror movie called “Return of the Killer Windshield.” It still makes me laugh when I think about it, but the joke probably works better visually than verbally.

Unintended consequences, that close cousin of mislaid plans, can claim some responsibility for a current conundrum: low-flow fixtures paired with existing oversized piping helped create the growing crisis of legionella bacteria.

ASPE LA took stock of its past, present and future during a holiday function to end 2018. Chapter President Vivian Enriquez, CPD, an associate with ARUP in Los Angeles, presented five recognition awards to members honoring their participation to their local chapter and the national society.

Legionnaires’ disease puts plumbing in the news on a frequent basis — in the worst way.

High efficiency boilers and water heaters, and pumps — and products designed to avoid bottlenecks caused by the skills gap — were the name of the game at AHR Expo in Atlanta this week.

Find a successful professional and there’s a good chance they had a great mentor. For Blair Minyard, the new vice president of education on the ASPE Board of Directors, that person is new ASPE President Carol Johnson.

If the Prius set a new expectation for energy efficiency and innovation, the same could be said of the new Koch 33 Toyota Dealership in Easton, Pennsylvania.

The committees intend to present the agreement  to the appropriate ASHRAE approving bodies at the upcoming ASHRAE conference at AHR Expo in Atlanta.

More than 100 ASPE Philadelphia members and guests commemorated the chapter’s 40^th anniversary last month with a dinner and party at the SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia.