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Collaborative Health Care Design

When should designers request identity of AHJ?

September 3, 2019

On the third Wednesday of July, the Piping Industry Progress & Education Fund (PIPE) and our local Phoenix ASPE chapter members met for our monthly meeting to discuss all things under the sun medical gas-related.

FPE Corner

Humans and Their Behavior

Examining and understanding human behavior in fire events in order to apply appropriate protection.

September 3, 2019

Victoria B. Valentine, P.E.

In many engineering roles, the job is to make something easier, simpler, faster or safer for people. When looking specifically at fire protection, public health, safety and welfare is readily at the forefront of thoughts.

The Future is Now

Another Moonshot

The world is changing faster than we think as climate change becomes more pervasive.

September 3, 2019

BF Nagy

Although the private sector is the primary landscape for economic and cultural disruption, we are becoming less naïve about the role of governments, especially local governments, as catalysts for the needed changes.

Code Classroom

Legionella Control for Building Water Systems

Eliminating Legionella growth conditions with proper system design, installation and maintenance.

September 3, 2019

Ron George

Legionnaires’ disease is a serious form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria that grows in a building water system and becomes aerosolized.

Ferguson Supports Women in Skilled Trades

September 2, 2019

One way to fill the labor shortage is to encourage more girls and women to pursue a skilled trade.

Students from Local Construction College Join WorldSkills Kazan Team Project Effort

August 30, 2019

Following the conclusion of WorldSkills Kazan 2019, members of the Skill Competition Management Team for Plumbing and Heating have remained in the Tatar capital to oversee the installation of three prefabricated sanitary wall plumbing systems at the Derbyshkinskiy Orphanage in Kazan.