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Steve Smith

Steve Smith

Steve Smith served as the editorial director of Plumbing Engineer in the 1990s, and brings 20 years of experience covering the plumbing, piping and radiant heating markets. From 1996 to 2009, Smith helped grow two industry magazines’ monthly editorial content, including adding seven supplemental publications. He has traveled throughout the U.S., and abroad to Japan, China and Europe to meet with industry leaders and represent various magazines. He can be reached at 847-564-1127 or [email protected].

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Rinnai Installation Solves Resort’s No Hot Water Headaches

The job is the company’s largest commercial tankless installation and included a total of 214 appliances.
February 5, 2020
Steve Smith
After a long day hiking Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park, all any of the guests at nearby Ruby’s Inn want is a nice hot shower. The problem for managers of the 700-room resort was everybody wanted to take that nice hot shower at the same time.
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John Akhoian Has a Better Plan B

Rooter Hero purposefully grows its business by looking out for the future of its workforce.
February 5, 2020
Steve Smith
Considering the success John Akhoian, CEO of Rooter Hero Plumbing, has had, no one would think that a plumbing career was anything other than his plan right from the get-go.
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Contractor Collaboration Publishes Safety Practices Guide

Installers and academic researchers partner to improve worker safety by preventing injuries, illnesses and fatalities.
February 5, 2020
Steve Smith
A collaborative effort spearheaded in part by McKinstry Co. and Comfort Systems USA Northwest has published a free download designed to improve safety within the mechanical contracting industry.
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Leveraging ConTech

Digitized contracting and prefabrication help Premier Mechanical stay a lean competitor.
February 3, 2020
Steve Smith
Digitized contracting and prefabrication help Premier Mechanical stay a lean competitor.
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Nevada’s First Black Female Plumber Wants More Women in the Trades

Last year, Evelyn Pacheco founded the Nevada Women in Trades, a nonprofit dedicated to help women pass exams required to enroll in apprenticeship programs.
February 3, 2020
Steve Smith
Evelyn Pacheco starts Nevada Women in Trades to encourage more women to consider a career in the construction trades.
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Denron Follows a 'Quality First' Mantra

New Hampshire mechanical contractor prides itself on adding value all along the way to complete New England’s largest jobs.
January 7, 2020
Steve Smith
For more than 40 years, Denron has served the New England market with a “quality first” mantra that every employee understands.  
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Q&A: ProVent Eliminates Vents, Revent Piping of Conventional DWV Systems

January 7, 2020
Steve Smith
The company’s fab method — fixed-point fabrication — saves money otherwise spent on labor and extra piping.
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Q&A: Hydrolevel Marks 55 Years in Business

After a catastrophic accident, the company founder had a better way to ensure safe boiler operations.
January 7, 2020
Steve Smith
As we’ll see from our interview with William Montgomery, director of national accounts for Hydrolevel Co., not many companies can claim to have started out quite like Hydrolevel did.
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New Beginning for Triangle Tube

A look at how a “No Fault Forward” manufacturing philosophy helps build the company’s new Instinct Boiler.
January 7, 2020
Steve Smith
Robust. Now there’s a word you don’t hear much in the U.S. Maybe on a bag of coffee, but that’s about it. However, robust is a word we heard often from about 10 people we met during our tour of the Ideal Boiler manufacturing plant in in the UK city of Hull, about a three-hour train ride north of London.
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Bell & Gossett Reopens Renovated Little Red Schoolhouse

Since its inception in 1954, more than 62,000 engineers, contractors and other plumbing and heating professionals have been educated at the Little Red Schoolhouse.
January 6, 2020
Steve Smith
Xylem Bell & Gossett recently celebrated the official reopening of its Little Red Schoolhouse, the company’s suburban Chicago training center for PHCPpros dedicated to the plumbing and heating industries.
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