The March 2019 issue of PM Engineer dives into the latest plumbing trends in commercial kitchens and baths, including the role grinder pumps play combatting sanitary wipes, and the expanded use of food waste disposers in grocery store prep areas. Also in the magazine, Julius Ballanco sees problems with a new International Plumbing Code change requiring more shutoff valves. John Siegenthaler, P.E., finishes his two-part column on different configurations for thermal storage tanks, and fire protection engineer Jacqueline Wilmot provides a guide for navigating the new and reorganized 2019 edition of NFPA 13.
Selecting the right plumbing products for any commercial job is a balancing act that would make circus clowns proud — budget, function, conservation, maintenance, who’s going to use the fixtures and how.
The National Restaurant Association finds many restauranteurs choose tankless water heaters for their redundancy, small footprint and cost-savings benefits.
Having hot water is important for everyone, especially for restaurants that must meet health and sanitation standards to stay in operation. Without adequate hot water, dishes cannot get washed, food cannot be served and the doors cannot stay open.
Implementing a water management program is probably the most daunting and crucial task of ASHRAE 188. Fortunately, there is a formulaic process for doing so, illustrated below.
Car dealer group saved more than 110,000 bottles and cans from waste across all locations.
March 20, 2019
At Hoffman Auto Group – a nearly century-old, family-owned auto dealership group in the greater Hartford, Connecticut area – employee health and customer satisfaction are always top-of-mind.
When Ferguson encountered extensive plumbing-system backups at one of its branches, it decided to turn to one of the product lines it offers customers — Saniflo grinder pumps — as a practical and cost-effective solution.
Charlotte Pipe & Foundry recently discovered a Shanghai, China-based company called Yitai Plastics had registered the Charlotte Pipe name, brand and logo in the country in 2010.
Have you opened the latest edition of NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems, to check on a specific requirement and wondered if you opened the right book?
Most of us have probably experienced the exercise known as “value engineering,” the process where everyone on the team looks at a design and tries to find ways to save some money.
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.
The below-ground infrastructure that has served us for the last five decades is at risk of failure due to change in climate, challenges with our understanding of how it should have been designed, intensification of the urban landscape and the simple lack of focus in maintenance, funding and knowledge.
Last month, we began with a concept for an “ideal” thermal storage tank. This tank was then shown in both a classic four-pipe configuration, as well as a newer configuration called two-pipe. This month, we’ll look at a morphing of these two piping methods to create a three-pipe configuration. We’ll also look at options for connecting multiple thermal storage tanks together.
American Fire provides turnkey solutions to the automotive, government/military, manufacturing, and distribution/warehouse markets in the US and internationally.
Fred Esleck was named area manager for Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle; Jeremy Morse joined its Fabrication Estimation Department.
He assumes the role from Douglas Brossman who, after seven years as president and CEO, will retain his role as chief executive officer. Drew will begin his new role on April 29 at Burnham Holdings’ annual meeting.
The Momentum Index, issued by Dodge Data & Analytics, is a monthly measure of the first (or initial) report for nonresidential building projects in planning.
Primsky is responsible for managing his manufacturer’s representative network as well as promoting MIFAB’s commercial plumbing product categories to engineers, contractors and distributors.
Inspired by the heritage of classic American architecture styles, yet updated with modern technologies and conveniences, the new Town Square S shower faucets highlight stately silhouettes and flexible design options to suit any bathroom, American Standard explains.
The linear WallDrain from QuickDrain USA allows for the most seamless and unique curbed or curbless shower design possible — by installing the drain in the wall itself — rendering it virtually invisible, QuickDrain says.
Val-Matic’s VaultSafe family of products is designed to protect potable water systems from contaminated flood waters, freezing temperatures and intentional harmful contamination.
The Toshiba Carrier Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Rooftop, a rooftop unit-style fan coil for the Toshiba Carrier VRF system, allows multiple rooftop units to connect to one condensing unit and additional VRF fan coil units, Carrier says.
The Zurn Froet bi-functional roof drain is a primary and secondary roof drain within one engineered system, eliminating the need for a separate overflow drain, Zurn says.
Weil-McLain now offers an advanced line of water heaters with composite construction tanks built to handle the hardest water conditions, the company notes.
Josam’s 60100-H-GRD Series epoxy-coated, fabricated-steel grease interceptor features a 110v-powered grease pump, reclaim tank with draw-off valve, no-hub connections, internal trap, removable diffuser baffle, gasketed non-skid center bolt cover, flow control fitting and PDI seal of approval.
Franklin Electric’s new Pioneer Pump Vortex Series TM pumps eliminate costly and disruptive downtime by passing through the most challenging solids using a recessed impeller that avoids direct contact, Franklin Electric notes.
REHAU’s EVERLOC+ compression-sleeve fitting system is engineered for safe, long-term plumbing and hydronic piping connections in residential, multi-family and commercial projects, REHAU says.
MIFAB’s Big Max grease interceptor is manufactured from seamless, rotationally molded, high-density polyethylene (H.D.P.E.) for superior structural integrity and comes with an H-20 load-rated lid as a standard feature, MIFAB notes.