The 11th annual competition will award monetary scholarships to three students and/or trade apprentices with an interest in how the plumbing and mechanical industry can create and promote positive change both here and abroad.

How Susan Stokes of Stokes Mechanical runs a $15 million ‘mom-and-pop’ firm in a male-dominated industry

The letter outlined clear necessities on behalf of the plumbing industry that should be part of any legislation passed to address economic hardships caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic.

They are not considered heroes, but plumbers walk into strangers' houses, unaware of any dangers that may exist due to COVID-19.

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.

Members of the Building Trades Unions, along with their union contractor partners, have been collecting new, unopened respirators and other vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to aid the city’s frontline health care workforce.

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.

It is likely that the COVID-19 coronavirus can be spread through building sanitary drainage systems; as long as the pandemic is still active, it should be assumed by anyone working on a sanitary drainage system that the virus is present.

In 2019, representatives from Bradford White completed a corporate signing of the Pledge to America's Workers.

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.