ASPE Newsletter July 2016 - aspephila.org · Dawn Bishop C 856-628-1308...

Board of Directors

President Mike Panco Consultant 610-497-4480 [email protected] Technical Vice President David C. Smith, PE, LEED AP Gannett Fleming 610-804-0069 [email protected] Legislative Vice President W. Kenneth Clark Zurn Industries, LLC 302-376-9170 [email protected] Membership Vice President Matthew Martin James Martin Company 215-669-2076 [email protected] Education Vice President Dawn Bishop C 856-628-1308 [email protected] Treasurer Bill O’Donnell, CPD, FASPE PWI Engineering 215-241-9100 [email protected] Administrative Secretary James Eyrich L&R Associates 267-308-0500 [email protected] Corresponding Secretary James Wardell Cope-Wardell-Ammon Assoc. Inc. 484-576-7386 [email protected] Webmaster & Newsletter Editor Marc K. Pisarek Pisarek Engineering P.C. 856-854-5445 [email protected]

We are online at www.AspePhila.org.

Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society

COMMITTEES Board of Governors Dawn Bishop Steve Ziga Golf Committee Chair Bill O’Donnell, CPD, FASPE PWI Engineering 215-241-9100 [email protected] Product Show Chair Michael Panco Consultant 610-497-4480 [email protected]

Affiliate Liaisons Alex Barbieri Barbieri & Kline 215-885-0440 [email protected] Social Activities Committee Dawn Bishop C 856-628-1308 [email protected] ASPE Plumbing Design School Chair Dawn Bishop C 856-628-1308 [email protected]

Earn CEU and PDH credit at each Dinner Meeting.

Credit: Photo in banner by Bill O’Donnell

Summer Issue In this issue:

See page 9 for a career opportunity from a local engineering firm.

Pictures from last month’s meeting can be found on pages 20-21.

ASPE Membership renewal notices are only sent via email. Please verify National ASPE has your current e-mail address on file by contacting Membership Assistant Racquel Rodriguez ([email protected]) and that your spam filter is not blocking delivery of notices.

The Plumbing School Application and Schedule is on pages 22-24 and on the website.

Don’t forget to sign up for the ASPE Philadelphia Golf Outing this Septem-ber! See page 27 for details.

President’s Message .............. 2

Technical Corner .................. 4

Legislative News .................... 6

Membership News ................. 8

Education Report ................. 10

Speaking Out ....................... 30

Affiliates Corner ................... 35

Last Month’s Attendees ....... 42

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Hello Everyone:

This summer is flying by so fast with many great changes for our Chapter. This season is going to be fun and look forward to many new exciting topics for our meet-ings.

I want to highlight that we have many Board changes and addi-tions such as Marc Pisarek taking over the reins of the Newsletter. This has allowed David Smith to

become our new VP of Technical and our meeting schedule is already full for the remainder of this year.

Ken Clark has returned as our VP Legislative and Dawn’s new role is VP Education with this year’s program developed and ready to be posted. I am happy to have James Wardell join our team and Jim will serve as our correspondence secretary and serve on committees as the need arises. Steve Ziga is back and will help on the Product show with Ernie Rink and me.

I am proud to serve with these dedicated members but in addition we have several members that serve on National Committees, Bill O’Donnell our treasurer also serves on the Fellowship committee, Steve Ziga serves as Chair of the Technical pro-gram and Dawn Bishop serves on the committee for Women of ASPE.

In closing let us not forget our Region One Director Paulie Silvestre. Paulie has never missed a beat in performing his duties even under extreme personal challenges and I am sure all our Board members have found inspiration from his dedication to not only the National but our great Philadelphia Chap-ter.

So join me and this great Chapter this Fall and par-ticipate in meetings, Plumbing classes, the Golf out-ing and everything we strive to offer to further your education and experience as a member of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLUMBING ENGINEERS.

Best regards to all,

Mike

Mike Panco President

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Dinner Meeting Announcement

THURSDAY, September 29th

DINNER TECHNICAL TOPIC

Sizing and Application of Natural Gas Piping Systems

Presented by:

Jeff Hornberger

M & H Sales

LOCATION: Clarion Hotel and Conference Center

76 Industrial Highway Essington, PA 19029

Time: 6 - 8 PM

COST

Dinner $35.00

Members With Reservation by Deadline: $25.00

RESERVATIONS DEADLINE: 4 PM MONDAY BEFORE

MEETING NIGHT

FOR RESERVATIONS CONTACT: David Smith

[email protected]

Meeting qualifies for 1‐Hour Continuing Education Unit

Certificates provided upon request through the National Chapter

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TECHNICAL CORNER

Hello Everyone:

Early in June, Dawn Bishop and I attended the Region one meet-ing. To say the least I was excited but also clueless as to what would be forthcoming. Yes I had the agenda and was aware of the topics that would be addressed and felt I could handle that no

problem!

Our Greet and meet on Friday night was very informal and the Connecticut

Chapter President Nicole M Parker was our host that had everyone talking and laughing. You could walk around the room introduce yourself and within a few minutes the name Paul Silvestre would be heard. Not to my surprise but to my proud friendship with Paulie as we know him, the love and respect for him were so much the words everyone would utter.

The challenges and determination by Paulie is what in-spires us all. I personally hope that I can serve our Chapter well and make everyone as proud of our Chapter as all our past Board Officers and members are today.

As the meeting commenced Billy Smith asked all the Chapter current Presidents to briefly discuss the individu-al Chapter success and other endeavors so we all could hear and take notes. Now the rookie that I am to these meetings I soon realized just how successful our region is and I took notes as fast as my pen could write.

Dawn and I will compile our notes and develop a report to be presented very soon. One funny thing happened during the meeting when the fire alarm went off with flashing lights and annunciators blasting our ears. Once we were all outside Billy Smith, our CEO and meeting presenter, walked around using skype looking at Paulie on his screen we all said hello and wished Paulie well. To say the least, many of us felt ourselves welling up as Paulie was crying and you knew just what we all mean to him. Such dedication is very rare and I for one only hope we can continue to build our chapter and make all our members very proud to say they are a member in the Philadelphia Chapter.

This is my last Vice-President Technical article as I am now your President. Dave Smith is now your Vice-President Technical and will be carrying on with the arti-cles starting in September.

Mike

Mike Panco Vice President,

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LEGISLATIVE NEWS HAPPY SUMMER! We hope you are enjoy-ing the heat and hopeful-ly some down time with family and friends. Dur-ing ASPE’s hiatus, please think about our Fall edu-

cational programs which will resume in September and also about attend-ing the Phoenix Convention and Expo on October 28 – November 2. There are some great educational programs planned, along with the first WOA- Women of ASPE one day seminar and of course the manufacturers’ booths which will be displaying a great deal

of new products. Please see my May article for the great opportunities at this year’s convention. The Philadel-phia ASPE Chapter will be sending seven (7) delegates to the show, so if there are some topics you’d like us to address, please contact one of your board members. Last month, the NFPA annual conven-tion was held in Las Vegas. There were attendees from over the world and they had some great questions. In P/E’s June publication, there’s an ad for a FREE July 21st (2pm CDT) webinar on fire sprinkler systems and

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MEMBERSHIP NEWS 2016 ASPE Convention & Exposition registration is open!

Hello Juggalos. The year's premier professional development event is being held in Phoenix from October 28 - November 2. ASPE is offering various registration discounts and options. * If you have never attended an ASPE Convention, you will receive 50 percent off the registration fee. (Email [email protected] for the discount code.) Come join us in Phoenix and see what you've been missing!

* Team discounts are available for two or more attendees from the same company. Why should you attend as a team? Find out here. * Students can attend for free if they become an ASPE member. * One-day registrations are available for those who can't make it to the entire event. * As always, walking the Exposition show floor is free!


Matthew Martin Vice President,

Membership

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MEMBERSHIP NEWS

Register now to receive the early bird rate and go to aspe.org/expo to learn more. Rooms are selling out fast, with no reserve, get yours today!

ATTENTION: GOLF OUTING REGISTARION IN FULL EFFECT!!!!!!!!!!! Have you reserved your golf outing foursome yet? We are very close to sold out. Make sure you get me your registrations ASAP! [email protected] Payment due no later than September 1, 2016. Give a warm welcome to our newest members, Christopher Vail, William Mahon, and Patrick Murgueytio. Congratulations to our newest members that have passed this year’s Certified in Plumbing Design (CPD) exam. They have earned the privilege of using the CPD designation after their name!

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May’s Dinner Meeting

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Philadelphia Chapter

23rd Annual Golf Outing

Thursday September 15, 2016

Pennsauken Country Club

3800 Haddonfield Road Pennsauken, NJ 08109

TEL: (856) 662-4961 www.pennsaukengolf.com

Dinner Only ($50) __________

Individual Golfer ($125.00) __________

Hole Sponsorship ($150.00) * __________

Corporate Package ($575.00) __________

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP Golfer 1: _______________________________

Golfer 2: _______________________________

Golfer 3: _______________________________

Golfer 4: _______________________________

Make Checks Payable to: Philadelphia Chapter ASPE and send to: Matthew Martin, James Martin Company 1400 Adams RD Unit E, Bensalem PA. 19020 Note for the 2016 ASPE Golf Outing. PAYMENT DUE NO LATER THAN September 1, 2016

*Can we use your sign from 2015? Please let us know! Yes ______ / No _______ If not please send .jpeg files to Mike Snyder!

PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER ASPE 2016 GOLF COMMITTEE: Bill O’Donnell, PWI Engineering [email protected] Matt Martin, James Martin Company [email protected] Mike Snyder, MSA (Mike Snyder Associates) [email protected] Dan Evans, Delval Equipment [email protected] Gary Dutton, Schott Glass Kimax [email protected]

Lunch 11:45 A.M.

Shotgun Start 1:00 P.M.

Happy Hour 5:30 P.M.

Buffet Dinner/ Prizes 6:30 P.M.

INFORMATION Name:_________________________________

Company:______________________________

Address: _______________________________

City, State, Zip:_________________________

Phone: _________________________________

E-mail:_________________________________

Corporate package: Includes Golf Foursome, *Hole Sponsorship, Lunch, Dinner, Door Prizes, recognition in the Golf Outing Program and in the Chapter Newsletter.

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SPEAKING OUT Hi All – After a much needed hiatus, I am glad to be back serving the Philadelphia Chapter of ASPE. The Chapter has continued on strongly during the last

Board term and it’s great to see that we’ve had much growth in our membership base.

Membership has its privileges. Do you get the most out of yours? Each of us are different and have different needs. You could be working at a larger engineering firm with a larger plumbing department or working as the only plumbing engineer in

a small firm. In both cases being a mem-ber of our society offers the same great rewards. Networking and education are the two greatest rewards in my opinion. You can mingle with other engineers, af-filiates, code officials or contractors at our meetings. I know I always have a job on my mind where I may be undecided on a thing or two in my designs. It’s such a great thing to bounce around ideas with your peers. An affiliate may help you with an equipment selection. A contrac-tor may give insight on preferred (or real-istic) installation practices. An engineer may affirm or critique your choices (its ok to be criticized in the right setting!). A


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LEGISLATIVE NEWS

the utilization of CPVC and the stand-ards/approvals for using this pipe. In keeping with the fire protection theme, I thought I’d mention this in case you were interested in attend-ing. Register today at: http://tiny.cc/lubrizol. Again, enjoy the summer and we look forward to seeing you this Sep-tember at our annual Golf Outing and dinner meeting.


code official will lend you their opinion so that your plans may go through permitting un-scathed. These are all excellent outcomes right?!? And as a result, you just became more informed and a better engineer now and for the future. By participating in engineering societies, you have the opportunity to make relationships that can help your career or help someone else’s for many, many years to come. What do you want from your member-ship? If you say you want text books, that’s just the first rung in the membership ladder. Keep on climbing my friends!



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AFFILIATES CORNER HAPPY SUMMER !!! Hopefully you are enjoying the Warm Summer Days or staying cool in air conditioning, whichever you prefer. We had great Technical Meetings this past year and I am very thankful to the following Table top Presenters who came out and helped support our meetings. Please reach out to these contacts so they can help you with a project or material needs...

TOTO represented by Ken White _ [email protected] Speakmen Safety Equipment rep'd by James Wardell _ [email protected] Whitehall Mnaufacturing represented by John Taplett _ [email protected] Symmons Industries represented by Alex Barbieri _ [email protected] Red Lion Medical Safety presented by Michael Yearian _ [email protected] McWane Plumbing Group presented by Von Jones _ [email protected] TYCO Mechanical Products presented by Joe Jaskot _ [email protected]

I look forward to seeing everyone again in a few short months when we jump into the ASPE 2016-2017 Year!!! Your Philadelphia ASPE Affiliate Liaison, Alex Barbieri [email protected]

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DANFOSS / GRAHAM (www.namc.danfoss.com) Variable Speed Drives, Soft Starters

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HOFFMAN SPECIALTY (http://bellgossett.com/steam-specialties) Vents, Traps, Strainers, Condensate Pumps, Temperature Regulators, Tempering Valves

MARLEY-SPX COOLING TECHNOLOGIES CO. (www.spxcooling.com) Cooling Towers: Wood, Steel & Fiberglass. Packaged & Field Erected, Parts and Repairs

McDONNELL & MILLER (http://unitedstates.xylemappliedwater.com/brands/mcdonell-miller) Boiler Safety Controls, Pressure Relief Valves, Flow Switches, Liquid Level Controls

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Chapter Presidents Since Inception: Mike Panco 2016-Current Dawn Bishop 2014-2016 Steve Ziga 2012-2014 Jerry S. Oflazian 2008-2012 Joseph M. Smaul 2008-2008 R. Paul Silvestre 2004-2008 Bill O'Donnell 2003-2004 Curtis Ray 2000-2003 David Moreno 1998-2000 Bill O’Donnell 1996-1998 Dave Holst 1994-1996 Ernie Rink 1993-1994 Joe Gallucio 1992-1993 Sevanti Jain 1990-1992 Ernie Rink 1988-1990 David Orrell 1986-1988 Thomas Coughlin 1984-1986 Robert Wagman 1982-1984 George Letherbury 1979-1982 Robert Hunter * 1978-1979 *Interim President


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IN ATTENDANCE AT MAY’S DINNER MEETING

Mark Ammon

Irina Apeltsin

William Batten

Dawn Bishop

Ed Breen

Lou Clendaniel

Mike Dolan

Gary Dutton

John Edwards

Brian Ewers

James Eyrich

Ray Foisy

Paul Holmes

Dave Holst

Servanti Jain

Joe Jaskot

Don Jones

William Mahon

Matthew Martin

Jim McCreary

Bob McCullen

Don Nowicke

Bill O'Donnel

Jerry Oflazian

Mike Panco

Marc Pisarek

Ernie Rink

Jackie Silveri

Paul Silvestre

Dave Smith

Mike Snyder

Brian Stoltzfus

John Taplett

Dwight Traub

James Wardell

Ken White

Mike Yearian

COME AND JOIN YOUR COLLEAGUES IN SEPTEMBER

ASPE 2016-17 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

September 29th 2016 Sizing and Application of Natural Gas Piping Systems

October 20th 2016 Legionnare’s Update

October 28th 2016 ASPE National Convention - Phoenix, Arizona

November 17th 2016 Medical Gas Certification

December 15th 2016 New Jersey National Standard Plumbing Code Updates

January 26th 2017 Application of Clean Agents in Fire Protection

February 23rd 2017 Sizing and Temperature Selection of Circuit Solvers

March 23rd 2017 Application and Sizing of Pressure Control and Reducing Valves

April 27th 2017 Sizing and Application of Master Mixing Valves

May 18th 2017 To be announced

June 15th 2017 Tour - Location to be announced

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