The September issue of PM Engineer features the 2020 Plumbing Engineer
of the Year: Theresa Card, how automatic grease recovery units positively impact sewer systems and the environment and more.
Pressure can spike or drop without warning. Changes occur from a slew of outside factors — improperly sized pipes, a broken pipe, peak demand on the system or a drop in the city’s mains, gravity, static or any vacuum-like force.
As COVID-19 and its physical and economic impacts reshape industries, facility managers and building operators are looking at how to most efficiently run existing commercial and industrial spaces that may be used very differently in the future.
Strategy, in my experience, is vastly misunderstood. I often see strategy thought of as “marketing strategy,” and it is applied to business development efforts only, or it is considered to be “not-applicable” as conditions on the ground are changing too quickly to “make a long-term plan” and then not change from it.
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.”
ISCO Industries (ISCO), a Louisville-based high-density polyethylene (HDPE) piping solutions provider, announced an agreement to sell Aquatherm polypropylene piping systems across the entire United States.
Rinnai, manufacturer of tankless gas water heaters, announced the ground breaking of its new factory in Griffin, Georgia. The building construction will begin in August with an expected opening date late in 2021.
The Grundfos Walk for Water is an annual fundraising event held for Water Mission, a non-profit engineering organization that designs, builds and implements sustainable safe water solutions around the world.
Victaulic’s QuickVic SD Installation-Ready products can now be used on 6061-T6 aluminum pipe, in addition to schedules 5 through 80 carbon-steel pipe, for systems sized 2” and down.