With lockdown orders put in place across the U.S., 2020 put a greater emphasis on building codes and thrust them into the spotlight. 

Legionnaires’ disease, first identified in 1976, is caused by water contaminated with Legionella pneumophilia which, when disseminated in droplets into the atmosphere and inhaled, may infect a person. 

Over the last 30 years, I have attempted to bring the readers into the middle of the code change hearings to understand the process as plumbing and mechanical code requirements are developed and implemented. 

Unsurprisingly, IAPMO announced that its first meeting to review the plumbing code and mechanical code changes will be held virtually. 

The ICC announced it is switching its spring code change hearings from in-person to virtual hearings. 

Rahm Emanuel, the former Mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, has a line that he often repeats: “Never allow a good crisis to go to waste.” 

The 1990 PMI president and recipient of the 2012 PMI President's Award, Craig Selover, 71, died on June 2 in Naples, FL.

Here’s your chance to become a certified Residential Plumbing Inspector. Let the Learning Center at the International Code Council be your training guide during a one-month online webinar series beginning July 9.

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.