The new task force — made up of building safety, health and other experts — will develop resources to prepare buildings and communities worldwide for disease-related threats.

The election was ratified at the close of the association's 91st annual Education and Business Conference.

The new innovation is taking hand hygiene outside the restroom.

The new education and training collaboration with BORDA India supports plumbers in the city of Leh in the remote Himalayan district of Ladakh, northern India.

The bill seeks to reauthorize the 1937 National Apprenticeship Act for the first time since its inception 83 years ago.

The collaboration will help deliver wash stations to the Navajo Nation reservation where more than 30 percent of residents — an estimated 52,000 people — live without access to running water.

The company’s plumbing project specification tool now includes product cross-reference capability.

The award is presented annually to a mechanical industry safety and health professional who has led his or her company to achieving an exceptionally high degree of safety excellence.

The company’s new webpage helps plumbing professionals and beginners up to date on today’s complex plumbing systems.

Bryan Mullett becomes chairman and CEO, and Luis de Leon appointed president and COO.