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Board of Directors
President Mike Panco Consultant 610-497-4480 [email protected] Technical Vice President David C. Smith, PE, LEED AP Gannett Fleming 610-804-0069 [email protected] Legislative Vice President W. Kenneth Clark Zurn Industries, LLC 302-376-9170 [email protected] Membership Vice President Matthew Martin James Martin Company 215-669-2076 [email protected] Education Vice President Dawn Bishop Rich-Tomkins Company, Inc. 610-859-6060 [email protected] Treasurer Bill O’Donnell, CPD, FASPE PWI Engineering 215-241-9100 [email protected] Administrative Secretary James Eyrich L&R Associates 267-308-0500 [email protected] Corresponding Secretary James Wardell Cope-Wardell-Ammon Assoc. Inc. 610-485-2828 ext. 26 [email protected] Webmaster & Newsletter Editor Marc K. Pisarek Pisarek Engineering P.C. 856-854-5445 [email protected]
We are online at www.AspePhila.org.
Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society
COMMITTEES Board of Governors Dawn Bishop Steve Ziga Golf Committee Chair Bill O’Donnell, CPD, FASPE PWI Engineering 215-241-9100 [email protected] Product Show Chair Michael Panco Consultant 610-497-4480 [email protected]
Affiliate Liaisons Michael Yearian Red Lion Medical Safety, Inc. Red Lion Medgas Consultants, Inc. 302-545-3225 [email protected] Social Activities Committee Dawn Bishop Rich-Tomkins Company, Inc. 610-859-6060 [email protected] ASPE Plumbing Design School Chair Dawn Bishop Rich-Tomkins Company, Inc. 610-859-6060 [email protected]
Earn CEU and PDH credit at each Dinner Meeting.
Credit: Photo in banner by Bill O’Donnell
December Issue Take a look inside for the latest news from ASPE Philadelphia.
Pictures from the ASPE Convention and December Dinner meeting can be found on pages 16-17.
Make sure to check out this month’s Membership News arti-cle on page 8 for a gift from the ASPE Philadelphia Chapter!
See page 24 for a career opportunity.
Be sure to join your friends and colleagues at the December Dinner meeting!
President’s Message.............. 2
Technical Corner .................. 4
Legislative News .................... 6
Membership News ................. 8
Education Report ................. 10
Speaking Out ....................... 22
Affiliates Corner ................... 27
Last Month’s Attendees ....... 30
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Hello Everyone: I wish to start by welcom-ing Kevin Flaherty, Trevor Pinto and Gary Stroh to our Chapter! Get involved, come out to meetings and meet our members. This year we again plan on having a few meetings at
other locations to accommodate mem-bers that live a great distance from our normal dinner location. I also want to wish all our members a very Happy Holiday! Our lives are so busy we really use this Holiday to refo-cus on Family and the reason we work so hard. I want to congratulate Michael Yearian for joining our Board in the position of Affiliate Liaison. Mike will be responsible for arranging the table top presenter for each meeting. Thank you Michael for your time and desire to help our grow-ing Chapter. We are still looking for a young Engineer that would like to get involved with our board in the position of “AYP” ASPE Young Professional Liaison. To qualify you need to be under 35 years old and be willing to work with young Engineer’s around the country with other chapters. I know we are all busy but when you decide to get involved with our chapter you will understand and recognize how important it is to support our members
and feel a great sense of accomplish-ment. One item I must bring up is our ongoing work to visit Engineering schools and Firms to present our Society and all its benefits and accomplishments. We are asking you all take a look at what we do to enhance and promote the profes-sion of plumbing engineering while as-sisting in improving the safety and well-being of the public on a global scale. One last important notice for our mem-bers is our involvement with a very spe-cial program called Future City Compe-tition. Our chapter has made a dona-tion to support this endeavor. This up-coming year the competition will be held on January 21st at Archbishop Car-roll High School in Radnor Pa. We will be walking the floor reviewing the Future city models and present an award for “Plumbing Innovation” to a school that demonstrates the best design in Plumb-ing, I cannot express the feeling you re-ceive when talking to all these young middle school children so excited to explain their design and how it will work for their “ FUTURE CITY“. Have a wonderful Holiday and New Year Mike
Mike Panco President
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Dinner Meeting Announcement
THURSDAY, December 15th
DINNER TECHNICAL TOPIC
New Jersey National Standard Plumbing Code Updates
Presented by:
Thomas Pitcherello
New Jersey Dept. of Community Affairs
LOCATION: Clarion Hotel and Conference Center
76 Industrial Highway Essington, PA 19029
Time: 6 - 8 PM
COST
Dinner $35.00
Members With Reservation by Deadline: $25.00
RESERVATIONS DEADLINE: 4 PM MONDAY BEFORE
MEETING NIGHT
FOR RESERVATIONS CONTACT: David Smith
Meeting qualifies for 1‐Hour Continuing Education Unit
Certificates provided upon request through the National Chapter
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TECHNICAL CORNER
Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope everyone recovered from Thanksgiving! Last month, I talked about next year’s Technical Symposi-um being in Toronto. Well it is not in Toronto, the
Technical Symposium is being held in Montreal,
QC, Canada from October 19-22, 2017. Still in Canada, but on the east side. So, get your passports ready and sign up for the Symposium.
In November, Jeff McBride showed those who were there, about Medical Gas instal-lation issues. What to look for and what not
to do concerning medical gas piping. Normally, zone valve boxes (ZVB) are piped left-to-right through the valve with the pressure gauge after (downstream) of the valve (right side of the box). He showed how an installation had the pres-sure gauge on the left and the ZVB was physically installed upside down to allow right-to-left piping. ZVB are installed with easy access and not in the room with the outlets. ZVB and outlets have a wall sepa-rating them. Jeff showed a couple of in-stallation with the ZVB behind a held open door (no access) and another with the ZVB in the same room as the outlets. Tank manifolds are required to be in a dedicat-
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David Smith Vice President,
Technical
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LEGISLATIVE NEWS Greetings fellow ASPE-rs! As a follow-up on my Novem-ber article on the IAPMO pro-cess to update the plumbing code, in December’s Plumb-ing Engineer – Jay Egg wrote an article on the “Code Up-date Process” (page 34) that I think you’ll find interesting as
he guides you through the committee pro-cess of developing the codes and standards we utilize today. Another great article this month in P/E is on “Fire protection Engineering for Facilities” by Sam Dannaway (page 38). There have been several changes and improvements made to the UFC 3-600-01 for army projects
that become effective on August 8, 2016. We hope to see you at this month’s dinner meeting, please remember it’s being pre-sented a week earlier than normal on Thurs-day, December 15th. The topic this month is on the New Jersey Standard Plumbing Code Updates and will be presented by Thomas Pitcherello of the NJ Department of Commu-nity Affairs. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanza and a safe and prosperous New Year!
Ken Clark Vice President,
Legislative
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MEMBERSHIP NEWS Your one best opportunity to come back to ASPE!
Good morning, Good afternoon, & Good night. ASPE’s member-ship reinstatement program will be ending on December 31st, 2016. This is a great opportunity. If you or anyone you know is a past member that are looking to reinstate for the low cost of $100, please get in contact with me. ASPE Philadelphia would like to make this even easier, we will pay the one-time cost of $100.00!!
My contact information: [email protected]
Please give a happy holiday welcome to Vincent Armenti, Vincent Pisano,
Kevin Flaherty, & Trevor Pinto.
Matthew Martin Vice President,
Membership
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2016 ASPE Convention in Phoenix
Congratulations to the newest members of the Kenneth G. Wentink Col-lege of Fellows which includes Philadelphia Chapter member and Region
I Chair Rui Paul Silvestre and past Philadelphia Chapter President Curtis Ray.
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2016 FUTURE CITY COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Hi All, It’s that time of year again. The school year is off to a great start for the Future City Competi-tion. To date, 40 schools have signed up and have started designing their cities of the future. Our greatest need at this stage of the competition is for mentors. Each school is assigned a mentor to work with the students and share their real world experiences to help them develop their future city. Just 1 or 2 hours a week can make a big difference in how students approach their project and how they start to address it. The following is a the current list of schools that need mentors: G.A. Stetson Middle School West Chester, PA Great Valley Middle School Malvern, PA Holy Family Regional Catholic School Levittown, PA Independence Charter School Philadelphia, PA JR Fugett Middle School West Chester, PA Sacred Heart Havertown, PA Southern Middle School Sinking Springs, PA St Albert the Great Huntington Valley, PA St Mary Schwenksville, PA Texas Avenue School Atlantic City, NJ Please let me know if you are interested in working with any of the schools listed above. If you’d like to be a mentor but don’t see a school in your area, send me an e-mail and I’ll keep you posted as schools register. Please visit our website at www.futurecityphilly.org and “Click here to sign up as a Volunteer” on the top left of the page. There you can register to be a mentor, judge, or general volunteer. We will need judges and general volunteers for the day of the competition, which is schedule for Janu-ary 21, 2017. It will be held again at Archbishop Carroll High School. Any questions please contact me via e-mail or phone. Please feel free to forward this e-mail to your friends, co-workers, and technical society members. Karen R. McManuels, PE Philadelphia Regional Volunteer Coordinator Manager, Operations Associated Engineering Consultants, Inc. 485 Devon Park Drive, Suite 113 Wayne, PA 19087 610-688-3980 x132 610-688-4566 fax 610-389-5692 cell
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SPEAKING OUT My family and I wish you all a Merry
Christmas &
Happy New Year!
May you enjoy the Peace of the Holidays with your Family and Friends!
See you next year!
Steve Ziga
TECHNICAL CORNER
ed room with proper ventilation, not a storage room with shelves of storage products. Bulk (liquid) storage tanks are required to be protected from damage with bollards and away from vehicle parking and accidents. Jeff show several installation where the cars were parked next to chainlinked fences without ade-quate clearance or bollards. Did you know that if liquid oxygen were to spill on asphalt surface, a fire would start? Which is why Emergency Oxygen Supply boxes are required to have a concrete pad and
the box is require to have a lock. These are just some of things Jeff talked dis-cussed.
In December, Tom Pitcherello of New Jer-sey Department of Community Affairs will be discussing the latest updates to the National Standard Plumbing Code 2015. Anyone doing projects in New Jersey knows Tom is the authority on New Jersey plumbing code.
So, come to the dinner meetings, hear everything our speaker have to say, and possibly learn something new to tell your associates.
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CAREER OPPORTUNITY Founded in 1975, Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers (BR+A) maintains a total staff of 300 employees located at our main office in Boston and branch offices in Philadelphia, PA; New York City, NY; McLean, VA (Washington, DC); Coral Gables, FL (Miami); Chicago, IL and St. Louis, MO. BR+A provides state-of-the-art integrated and coordinated mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection consulting engineering, technology systems design and building commissioning services.
5 to 10 years of experience.
Desired Skills:
• 5 plus years of Experience in designing of Plumbing and Fire protection for: Healthcare, Commercial High-rise building and Laboratory projects.
• Proficient in Auto CAD and Revit. • Experience in specification writing. • Performs field verification and take-offs of existing systems for renovation
projects. • Coordinates with other disciplines. • Develop calculations for Plumbing/FP system sizing. • Have thorough knowledge of Philadelphia Plumbing Code, NFPA, and other
codes. • Excellent organizational and communication skills. • Strongly motivated, well organized, shows professional initiative. • Takes ownership of assignments, work both independently and as part of the
project team. • Understand work planning and manage design process to the available hours
in work plan. • Meets / working with contractors. • Oversee deliverables to and from clients.
We offer excellent compensation and a competitive benefits package, including Medical/Dental coverage and 401K, to all of our full-time employees. BR+A is an equal opportunity employer.
Please send resume to: [email protected].
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AFFILIATES CORNER Please give a warm welcome to the newest member of our ASPE Philadel-phia Chapter Board: Micheal Yearian Mike will serve as our Affiliate Liaison from this point forward, so be sure to contact him if you wish to get a spot-light at our monthly tabletop presenta-tions. We thank you for your commitment and dedication to our chapter! Our next tabletop presentation will be: Hydro Service and Supplies presented
by Steve Smith
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Chapter Presidents Since Inception: Mike Panco 2016-Current Dawn Bishop 2014-2016 Steve Ziga 2012-2014 Jerry S. Oflazian 2008-2012 Joseph M. Smaul 2008-2008 R. Paul Silvestre 2004-2008 Bill O'Donnell 2003-2004 Curtis Ray 2000-2003 David Moreno 1998-2000 Bill O’Donnell 1996-1998 Dave Holst 1994-1996 Ernie Rink 1993-1994 Joe Gallucio 1992-1993 Sevanti Jain 1990-1992 Ernie Rink 1988-1990 David Orrell 1986-1988 Thomas Coughlin 1984-1986 Robert Wagman 1982-1984 George Letherbury 1979-1982 Robert Hunter * 1978-1979 *Interim President
Thank you to our 2016 Golf Outing Sponsors
Trophy Sponsor ZURN/GREEN TURTLE
Photo Sponsor L & R ASSOCIATES
Lunch Sponsor (SSI) SUPRESSION SYSTEMS INC
KEG Sponsor MCWANE PLUMBING TECHNICAL SERVICES
Beverage Cart & Happy Hour Sponsor SCALES MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
Corporate Sponsors
Hole Sponsors KEYSTONE SALES / BOCK WATER HEATERS
VIEGA LLC
WILLIAM BETZ COMPANY ZURN
JAMES MARTIN COMPANY AQUATHERM
MILWAUKEE VALVE GREEN TURTLE/ PROCEPTOR RICH TOMKINS COMPANY
UPONOR DELTA FAUCET BRADFORD WHITE
COPE WARDELL AMMON BJ TERRONI
(SSI) SUPRESSION SYSTEMS UPONOR
MARTIN & SMITH HYDRO SERVICE & SUPPLY
DELVAL EQUIPMENT SCHOTT- KIMAX
CLAPP ASSOCIATES SCALES MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
M&H SALES
LUBRIZOL MIKE SNYDER & ASSOCIATES
FROET INDUSTRIES ROCKFORD SEPERATORS
BLANKIN EQUIPMENT ROBERT BROWN ASSOCIATES
L & R ASSOCIATES SLOTDRAIN
HIGHLAND TANK WHEATLAND TUBE KEYSTONE SALES
ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATES ROI MARKETING
MOEN NIBCO
SHERMAN ENGINEERING VICTAULIC
VERNON BITZER COMBUSTION SERVICE &
EQUIPMENT
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IN ATTENDANCE AT NOVEMBER DINNER MEETING
Jim Eyrich
Eric Gaspari
Brian Goudy
Dave Holst
Servanti Jain
Don Jones
William Klock
John Lee
Matt Martin
Jeff McBride
Jim McCreary
Bob McCullen
Pat Mullen
Don Nowicki
Bill O'Donnell
Mike Panco
Vincent Pisano
Marc Pisarek
Carl Ray
Mark Richardson
Paul Silvestre
Dave Smith
Brian Stoltzfus
James Wardell
Jim Watcher
Amiel Westfield
Michael Yearin
COME AND JOIN YOUR COLLEAGUES IN DECEMBER
ASPE 2016-17 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
September 29th 2016 Sizing and Application of Natural Gas Piping Systems
October 20th 2016 Legionnare’s Update
October 28th 2016 ASPE National Convention - Phoenix, Arizona
November 17th 2016 Medical Gas Certification
December 15th 2016 New Jersey National Standard Plumbing Code Updates
January 26th 2017 Application of Clean Agents in Fire Protection
February 23rd 2017 Sizing and Temperature Selection of Circuit Solvers
March 23rd 2017 Application and Sizing of Pressure Control and Reducing Valves
April 27th 2017 Sizing and Application of Master Mixing Valves
May 18th 2017 Pressure Pipe Systems
June 15th 2017 Tour - Location to be announced
