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Timothy Allinson

Timothy Allinson

Timothy Allinson is chief plumbing engineer at ACCO Engineered Systems. He holds a BSME from Tufts University and an MBA from New York University. He is a professional engineer licensed in both mechanical and fire protection engineering in various states, and is a LEED accredited professional. Allinson is a past-president of ASPE, both the New York and Orange County chapters. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Copper Pipe
Designer's Guide

Copper Pipe Joints

Do you braze or solder copper pipe?  
January 9, 2017
Timothy Allinson
First, I would like to start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year! We now have a new code in...
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Grease interceptor
Designer’s Guide

Grease Interceptors 101

The basics of design and common mistakes.
December 5, 2016
Timothy Allinson
First, I would like to start by saying Happy Holidays and New Year to all. I don’t know about you,...
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Bellagio Fountain
Designer’s Guide

An Engineering Marvel

The famous fountain at the Bellagio proves to be a feat of engineering.
November 7, 2016
Timothy Allinson
Last month, I had the good fortune to take a short vacation in Las Vegas. I stayed in the newly...
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Skydiving
Designer’s Guide

Skydiving and Air Pistons: It’s Just Math

Addressing the challenge of designing a net for the ultimate skydive wasn’t a light task for this engineer. 
October 7, 2016
Timothy Allinson
You may have seen that, back on July 31st, a daredevil skydiver named Luke Aikins performed a world record skydive...
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Designer’s Guide

Compressed Air Solutions

September 6, 2016
Timothy Allinson
The woman I’m dating lives  on the waterfront in Newport Beach, SoCal. Her unit faces a marina that separates Newport...
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The green goo mystery is solved!

August 10, 2016
Timothy Allinson
Back in February 2016, I wrote about water quality and a recent phenomenon occurring here in Southern California on some...
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Hybrid MPG

July 11, 2016
Timothy Allinson
The other day one of our estimators ran a gas system design past me that came across his desk from...
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Water hammer arrestors

June 6, 2016
Timothy Allinson
In this world of entropy, where everything constantly gets more complicated rather than less, water hammer arrestors are no exception. For...
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Open parking structures revisited

May 9, 2016
Timothy Allinson
When I first started writing this column back in September of 2002 my very first article was on open parking...
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Pull planning

April 6, 2016
Timothy Allinson
As if we didn’t already have enough to do, I’m sure many of you are familiar with and frequently hampered...
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