Toward the goal of keeping plumbing manufacturers contributing during the pandemic, PMI issued a letter to Vice President Mike Pence to urge the Trump administration to identify plumbing manufacturing workers as "essential" and allowed to work as shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders go into effect.

The list identifies those professions deemed essential to continued critical infrastructure viability and advises such workers to continue normal operations, appropriately modified to account for Centers for Disease Control (CDC) workforce and customer protection guidance.

A tremendous rise in commercial construction is reshaping the skylines of major cities across North America, with Xylem Bell & Gossett's systems expertise helping to equip the buildings of the future with sustainable, advanced hydronic HVAC and plumbing system solutions.  

A report from NSF Health Sciences and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network recommends electronic cooling tower registry to help public health investigators quickly pinpoint the source of outbreaks.

Health officials in Hong Kong have determined that plumbing systems in certain high-rise buildings are implicated in recent cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

All across the globe, people will be pausing on March 11 to celebrate World Plumbing Day and acknowledge that plumbing is a large part of everyday life.

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.

As of this writing, oil prices have retreated as a result of the coronavirus, coupled with the glut of oil on the market, to $50.34 for WTI and $54.45 for Brent Crude.

The CPC was among the honorees in the education category, announced Wednesday as part of the “Accelerating the SDGs through the Local Project Challenge” seminar.