According to Thomas J. Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “small independently owned businesses” are the backbone of American industry. He further believes that digital technology will accelerate their economic growth.

Navien awarded Repnet from Arizona/New Mexico with the top commercial project of 2019.

The new, New Ulm High School, a modern beauty constructed at a cost of $47 million, won high praise after its completion last year.

After a long day hiking Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park, all any of the guests at nearby Ruby’s Inn want is a nice hot shower. The problem for managers of the 700-room resort was everybody wanted to take that nice hot shower at the same time.

A collaborative effort spearheaded in part by McKinstry Co. and Comfort Systems USA Northwest has published a free download designed to improve safety within the mechanical contracting industry.

Electrification of buildings has become a policy imperative of numerous states concerned about climate change. They are implementing policies that aim to de-carbonize electricity production by greater reliance on renewable energy sources.

The Heights is a state-of-the-art, 775 seat, 180,000 square foot public school located in densely-populated Arlington, Virginia.

There are many equations for determining the flow in natural gas pipes and the pressure drops associated with those flows, or vice versa. Our intent is to determine the validity of each equation with respect to flow rates that might be encountered by a plumbing engineer.

My last two columns have, instead, reviewed the critical modern technologies shaping our 2010s and 2020s built environment. It’s time to return to some actual projects.

This is the continuation of a series of columns covering only the code changes that were approved as submitted from 2018 to the 2021 International Plumbing Code (IPC) change hearings.