Commercial plumbing products are more connected than ever, offering remote monitoring and data collection that opens the door for predictive analytics. The newest commercial boilers demonstrate those advantages, with controls that provide information access via mobile apps and websites.
Dallas-based American Fire Sprinkler Association named Debra N. McGuire as the association’s new president and CEO this year. Established in 1981, AFSA and its federation of 32 chapters serve as North America’s largest fire sprinkler industry organization.
Below the normal stacks in BYU’s Herald B. Lee Library sit the Special Collections vaults, containing the university’s most valued and cherished historic texts, artifacts and film.
There’s an old saying, repeated in the recent novel “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday, about how “the foreign journalist who travels to the Middle East and stays a week goes home to write a book in which he presents a pat solution to all of its problems.
Scary descriptions of “monster fatbergs” that have blocked sewer water in Baltimore and the U.K. make for effective newswriting. But clogged-artery metaphors and gross-out tactics aside, fat, oil and grease (FOG) do pose an expensive threat to sanitary sewer collection systems.