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Hope everybody has their Christmas shopping done because I sure don’t. Of course I’m the habitual Christmas Eve shopper anyway. I just never seem to find the time. I’ve decorated the outside of the house under the watchful eye of my wife. The missing or burned out light bulbs have been replaced and the decorations have been moved around to a more eye pleasing location. I’m still decorating the inside of the house. From my family to yours, we hope you have a happy and safe Holiday Season!!
UCLA Extension has started the Advanced Plumbing Systems Design certificate program which is sponsored by ASPE. The online design courses start January 5, 2015. This fall the following courses will be offered: Plumbing Systems I - Code and Engineering Fundamentals, Plumbing Systems II - Advanced Engineering Systems, Fire Protection for Plumbing Engineering, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and Electrical Design and Construction. Courses may be taken individually or as part of the Advanced Plumbing Systems Design certificate program. For more information, go to the ASPE website www.aspe.org.
The next edition of ASPE Journal is now available on the ASPE website at aspe.org/aspejournal. You will have to log in
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President’s Report
December 2014
The American Society of Plumbing Engineers
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION
CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER P. O. Box 2571 Columbus, OH 43216-2571
Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society
Reminder— We will be taking reservations for lunch meetings only via e-mail.
Prior to each meeting you will receive an email from me with details of the meeting. Please email me your reservation for the meeting by simply clicking on the reply button. Type YES if you are going to attend or NO if you can’t make it. Then SEND your reply. If you have a guest, send his/her name and company in the body of the response.
Donald E. Konkle
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January Lunch Meeting
January 12, 2015
Spaghetti Warehouse
397 West Broad
Columbus, OH 43215
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
$20.00 per meal
SUBJECT: Seismic Restraint and Vibration Control
SPEAKER: Raj Prime, Mason Industries
PLEASE REMEMBER, if you make a reservation, you are expected to pay, whether you attend or not. Cancellation deadline it 5:30pm the Thursday before the meeting.
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VP Technical—Tony Furst
Tony Furst Vice President Technical
As we approach the end of the year and the
upcoming holidays I would like to personally
wish each and every one of you and your
families a warm and wonderful Christmas and a
prosperous New Year. I also ask that as we all
sit down to enjoy the holidays with friends and
family to please remember those who serve our
country in the military and in public service and
thank them for their dedication.
Our program for January will be on seismic
restraint and vibration control. Mr. Raj Prime
from Mason Industries will be here to discuss
the requirements for proper seismic bracing of
pipe and equipment. Mr. Prime is the regional
sales manager for Mason Industries. Prior to
that he was an applications engineer for Mason
Industries. Mr. Prime received his bachelor’s
degree in mechanical engineering from the
University of Massachusetts and is a current
voting member of ASHRAE’s Technical Com-
mittee TC;2.6, “Sound and Vibration Control”.
We will have a very special guest here in
February as our guest speaker, Mr. Mitch
Clemente the newly elected President of ASPE
will be here to share his vision for the future of
ASPE. Please make sure you are here for this
very special meeting to welcome our new
president and show him how great the Central
Ohio Chapter is.
The upcoming program year looks to be an
exciting one and I hope that everyone is enjoy-
ing the variety of technical topics we are cover-
ing. I would love to hear from you our mem-
bers on any specific topics you would like to
see covered please drop me an e-mail to
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Mark Simpson Chapter President
Chad Dupler Vice President Membership
VP Membership—Chad Dupler
Greetings Membership,
Have you got your Christmas shopping done? Me neither. It seems it gets harder and harder to find the time every year. I hope you make it. We currently have 72 members and that includes a couple new members. Welcome to our Central Ohio chapter Regina Condy & Bruce Mendes. Nice to have you and we’re looking forward to having each of you participate in our chapter.
Are you or someone in your immediate family thinking about getting an engineering degree? Up to $3,000 in scholarship money is available for qualified applicants through ASPE's Alfred Steele Scholarship. This is limited to ASPE members and their immediate families. The application deadline is January 31, 2015. Go to the ASPE website for all the details and qualifi-cations for this terrific scholarship opportunity.
I hope you and your family have the merriest of Christmas’s and a safe and prosperous new year.
Yours in Membership,
with your member login to view it. Also the updated version of PEDH Volume 2, Plumbing Engineering Design Handbook Volume 2: Plumbing Systems will be distributed early next year. You will only receive this updated volume if you are an active in good standing.
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Region 2 Affiliate Liaison —- Dann Holmes
We all have so much to be thankful for. Some of you are hunters and recently bagged your tro-phy deer; congratulations. Most of us spent quality time with our families and friends over this past Thanksgiving Day break. Some used a design tip they recently learned by attending their local ASPE Chapter meeting that got them through the final stage of a plumbing design project.
I think it’s safe to say we’re all thankful for the last 4 years of dedicated service Jim Kendzel gave to ASPE. I was fortunate enough to speak with Jim at the recent PMI (Plumbing Manufac-turers International) Fall Conference in Chicago, IL. We wish him the best in his new role as Vice President of Certification at the American Health Information Management Association. www.ahima.org.
The PMI Conference was well attended by many industry notables involved in the manu-facturing of plumbing fixtures and/or their com-ponents. As well as media and certification bod-ies. The conference started with an Executive Panel Discussion featuring key representatives from Bradley, Delta Faucet, Kohler, Moen, Sym-mons, T&S Brass and TOTO. Bill Kurtis, ac-claimed documentary host, producer and broad-caster moderated the event.
We also heard from PMI Consultants who closely monitor what legislative action is taking place in Washington D.C. and California. We know this will eventually affect each and every one of us. Be sure to read the many articles that are sure to populate your upcoming monthly plumbing magazines.
Not only was I thankful to have attended PMI but I was also equally fortunate to attend the PPI (Plastics Pipe Institute) Semi-Annual Meet-ing in Southlake, TX. It was here I learned about the many opportunities there are for plas-tic piping systems.
PPI has numerous divisions. One division is the Building & Construction Division. They just completed the PEX Design Guide 2nd Edition. It’s available for download www.plasticpipe.org/publications/pex_handbook.html. Be sure to add this to your document library. It contains everything you’ve ever wanted to know about PEX, including things you’ve never thought of.
There is also the Conduit; Corrugated; Energy Piping Systems; Municipal & Industrial Divi-sions as well as the Technical Committee. PPI has produced a wealth of knowledge for you and it’s at your fingertips.
Do yourself a favor and bookmark the www.safeplumbing.org and www.plasticpipe.org websites and visit them often. They’re both a valuable resource for the plumbing industry.
We can all be thankful for the addition of a new Chapter in Region 2, the Toronto ASPE Chap-ter. I hope to give a full report on this in my arti-cle next month.
Let me leave you here with one last thing I’m thankful for; our upcoming Hanukkah, Christ-mas and New Year’s Holidays. No matter how you celebrate, be sure to reflect on your own personal accomplishments this past year before reaching out and sharing your good fortune with everyone around you. I’m starting out by shar-ing mine with you.
As always, please feel free to contact me at: Dann Holmes – ASPE Region 2 Affiliate Liaison NSF International – Business Unit Manager [email protected] or (734) 214-6222
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ASPE CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER 2014-2015 MEETING and EVENT SCHEDULE
September 8,2014 ASSE Standard 12000
October 8, 20134 Joint ASPE/MCACO/ASHRAE/SFPE
Meeting
November 10, 2014 Domestic Water Booster Systems
December 8, 2014 CPVC Piping Systems VE Decisions
January 12, 2015 Seismic Restraint and Vibration Control
February 9, 2015 ASPE President
March 9,2015 Sump Pump and Pit Sizing and Selection
April 13, 2015 Backflow Prevention Devices
May 11, 2015 Elections
TBD
June 16, 2015 ASPE Golf Outing
President
Mark G. Simpson, CPD
Kohrs Lonnemann Heil Engineers, PSC
Two Miranova Place, Suite 280
Columbus, Ohio 43215
614-228-2180 Fax: 614-228-2183
Vice President, Technical
Tony Furst
Bruner Corporation
3637 Lacon Road
Hilliard, Ohio 43026
614-334-9000 Fax: 614-334-9001
Vice President, Legislative
Bill Deardurff, CPD
Dynamix Engineering
855 Grandview Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43215
614-443-1178 Fax: 614-443-1594
Vice President, Membership
Chad Dupler
Campbell Equipment Co.
P.O. Box 493
Millersport, Ohio 43046
800-466-3050 Fax 419-874-4705
Treasurer
Hanse Cromer
Steffens-Shultz, Inc.
525 Industrial Mile Road
Columbus, Ohio 43228
614-274-5515 Fax: 614-274-0126
Administrative Secretary
Brad Fitzsimmons
Bruner Corporation
3637 Lacon Road
Hilliard, Ohio 43026
614-334-9000 Fax: 614-334-9001
Corresponding Secretary
Greg Hochstetler, PE, LEED AP
Speer Mechanical
5255 Sinclair Road
Columbus, Ohio 43229
614-261-6331 Fax 614-261-6330
Affiliate Liaison
Thom Rauenswinder
Spears Manufacturing
590 Industrial Drive
Lewisberry, PA 17339
614-766-5294
E-mail: [email protected]
Officers
The Central Ohio chapter of ASPE newsletter is published as a forum for
its members. Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those
of the society, the Central Ohio chapter or its editors.
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