The support is part of a larger effort of LIXIL Americas to steer the conversation towards the importance of plumbers, and how their contributions ensure that communities have safe drinking water, a clean shower and proper sanitation.

The company has guaranteed a commitment to fund 50 scholarships for a total of $250,000.

This year's conference is in Kansas City, Missouri, from June 22-26.

Discouragingly, recent studies show that only 64 percent of such resolutions last longer than the first month and only 46 percent last longer than six months.

We first visited the Plumbing Museum at some point in the 1990s when it was located at its original site in Worcester, Massachusetts. 

The 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.

In the home service industry, the goal of any marketing is to put your business in the forefront of customers’ minds when their need arises. Who do they call first when their garbage disposal breaks or when their sink backs up? Of course, you want that call to come to your plumbing business.

Technology such as the Internet of Things and building automation control are trends that will be the focus for exhibitors over the next year.

The Skilled Labor Fund and its partners presented industry labor shortage challenges and its initiatives to aid in reversing the trends at the 2019 Design & Construction Week in Las Vegas.

The series offers 12 seminars covering topics such as hydronic basics, boiler start-up and tuning, and energy retrofit.