Lloyd Brown—37 Yrs

Thomas Love PE—30 Yrs

Bill Brazee—27 Yrs

Jorge Megias—9 Yrs

Christian Esser—7 Yrs

Drew Williamson—4 Yrs

Aimee Fernandez CPDT—2

Yrs

Mark Troast—27 Yrs

Anthony Millward PE—24 Yrs

Donia Bessa PE—23 Yrs

Anthony Clementi—18 Yrs

Eric Knauth PE—18 Yrs

Adrian Baus PE—16 Yrs

Howard Yonge PE—15 Yrs

Scott Fote PE—13 Yrs

Nichole Valdez—1 Yr

Birthdays: Charles Flask PE

Nathan Hutchings CPD

Robert Lowell CPD

Henry Vickery

Anthony Bowers PE

Mike Buchberg GE

Michael Dirienzo

Chris Farr CET

Tom Langford

Rex Prince GE

Christian Snyder

George Stewart PE

Rockwood Summerfield Jr

Diane Wingard CPD, FASPE

This month’s chapter meeting will take place on Thursday, June 25th at noon. This meeting will be hosted by ASPE Society, rather than the local chapter, and CEUs will be on offer for those attending. The subject will be hazardous conditions of low/no flow water issues in buildings and municipal water supplies. The speaker is Dann Holmes with NSF Health Sciences. He also serves as the ASPE Region 2 Affiliate Liaison. Be sure to look in your email inbox for the link to this meeting!

Congratulaons to the incoming 2020-2021 Central Florida ASPE Board of Directors!

Local Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society.

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This is my last newsletter of my presidency. The newly elect-ed officers for the 2020-2021 ASPE year take over come July 1. I want to thank all of those that have been on the board with myself for the last 2 years. Even though the posi-tions do not take a lot of effort on each of your parts, without the effort that you each contributed, we would be lacking in one area or another. I thank you each for everything you have done and contributed not only over the last couple years of my presidency, but for all of the years you have

been on the board in one position or another.

Those individuals that will be on the 2020-2021 board in-

clude the following:

President: Diane Wingard VP-Technical: Chase Freeman VP Legislative: Jonathan Kennen VP Membership: Dale Peterson Treasurer: Melissa Green Secretary: Chris Farr AYP (ASPE Young Professionals): Drew Williamson Education Chair: Edwin Gonzalez Newsletter Editor: Rob Lowell Affiliate Liaison: Jorge Megias WOA (Women of ASPE): Cristina Salido Webmaster: Drew Williamson

As we are not yet able to meet in a group setting, our June meeting will once again be over the internet. You can once again attend the ASPE meeting in your pajamas, swimsuit, or even full camouflage. Please continue to practice social

distancing to help prevent the spread of disease.

This month, our meeting will NOT be the 4th Tuesday of the month, but rather on Thursday June 25th at noon. The meet-ing will be hosted through the ASPE society in which by the society hosting it, rather than the local chapter or the pre-senter, it gives the opportunity to much easier be awarded the CEUs for your attendance. The link will be provided in a

forth coming email.

The June 25th meeting will be presented by Dann Holmes, with NSF Health Sciences, LLC, and the ASPE Region 2

President’s Report—By Eric Knauth, PE, LEED AP Email: eric.knauth@exp.com

Affiliation Liaison. He will be presenting on many aspects related to the hazardous conditions of low, or no flow water

issues in buildings and municipal water supplies.

In mid-September, ASPE will be hosting the bi-annual Con-vention and Exposition in New Orleans. This is the largest gathering of plumbing professionals and manufacturers all in one location. Not only will you get to see all of the products you specify, but also those new to the industry. Additionally, you will be able to sit through a series of technical classes to increase your knowledge from that of the basics to plenty of advanced topics. Both registration and the hotel accommo-dations are now indeed open. For more information please visit: https://expo.aspe.org/

Are you familiar with Read, Learn, & Earn? ASPE has this program that not only helps you learn on one topic or anoth-er, but in doing so, you can also gather CEUs. This program is FREE to ASPE members. Currently there are 13 different ones available covering topics such as Cost Estimation, Hot Water Circulation, and Backflow. After you read the literature on each subject, there is a short quiz, and once you pass, you obtain your CEUs. More information on this can be found here: https://education.aspe.org/RLE Have you participated in any webinar recently? This is a fan-tastic way to ‘social distance’ yourself while still learning. ASPE has many webinars available to watch at your leisure again with a wide range of topics from Steam systems to the history of cast iron to FP design. These can be found here:

https://education.aspe.org/on-demand-webinars

As a reminder, ASPE typically takes the months of July and

August off for the summer. During that time the board will

meet to start to plan the upcoming year. If you are interested

in being a speaker, or have an idea for a topic, please con-

tact Chase (VP-Technical) and he will be able to get you or a

speaker on that topic scheduled. So, for now, stay safe and

healthy everyone. Hopefully this will have all blown over and

we can once again gather come September.

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Hello fellow plumbing design professionals. We hope you are staying safe and healthy. During these difficult times we join our members in knowing that our country will make it through this period. We look forward to things opening up, in a safe manner, in the coming days as we work to getting back to normal. At this point we are sad to announce that due to the so-cial distancing mandate we will continue to have a virtu-al meeting this month. We hope to return to in person meetings after the summer break. Technical Virtual Meeting June 25, 2020 – 12:00 PM - Proactive water management plans for hospitals and long-term care facilities – Presented by Dann Holmes of NSF Health Sciences, LLC. ASPE Webinars June 24, 2020 at 3:00 PM – FREE for ASPE members Application for Smart Water Management in Commercial Buildings CPD Exam The registration for the CPD exam is now closed. If you registered and are planning on taking the test, we wish you the best of luck. Click here for 2020 CPD Exam and COVID-19 Updates information. Book of the month Through June 30, 2020, you can purchase the PDF version of the Domestic Water Heating Design Manual – 2nd Edi-tion for 35% off the regular member price. Just enter coupon code SUMMERTIME when you check out. Don’t forget to check out the ASPE Connect Forum where you get to participate in a number of topics being discussed via this new ASPE medium. The forums offer a way to stay in touch with others in the community and see the questions, and answers, the community has to offer. Maybe you can

Education Chair Report—By Edwin Gonzalez, CPD Email: egonza386@gmail.com

find the answer to something you need help within your de-signs. Check it out. Read Learn Earn During this time the authorities and some employers have asked many of us have to stay home, when possible work from home, avoid crowded places and contact with others. We all need to work and provide for our families, but some-times it is situations like this that can give us an opportunity to turn a negative into a positive. If you are working from home, get your work done, but also take advantage of the situation, log on to the ASPE Education complete a few of the Read Learn Earn courses available and catch up with the required CEUs for your CPD recertification. Think about it this way, if you travel half hour to and from work each day, that is five hours a week that you can spend working on earning some CEUs. Then when the COVID-19 is over you can concentrate on getting back to work knowing you don’t

have to worry about your CEUs .

The American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) Con-vention & Expo

The 2020 ASPE Con-vention & Expo is dedi-cated to quality educa-tion, connections and

experiences for those skilled in the design, specification and inspection of plumbing systems. September 11-16, New Or-leans, Louisiana. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Green Plumbing Design New! Later in 2020 announcements will be made regarding the future of the GPD program and its transition to an online program. Check back later this year for more information. The program will NOT be offered at the 2020 Convention and Expo.

Look after yourselves everyone. I wish you good health and all the best! Enjoy the summer break!

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Not much has changed since our last newsletter… Still dealing with COVID-19 with just a fewer restrictions. To make matters worse other issues have surfaced, issues that have cast an even darker cloud over us… I guess when it rains it pours… I hope that we can weather this

in a way that will make us stronger in the end.

Most of us continue to work remotely. I would request on behalf of my fellow affiliates that you communicate your firm’s preferences regarding visits, L&L and other activities… we all want to do our part to keep everyone

safe.

Our chapter as with other chapters has been offering virtual meetings… they have served to keep our mem-bership informed, especially when dealing with re-opening of facilities that have been out of commission for weeks or even months. Be sure to follow recom-mendations by ASHRAE, CDC and others regarding re-starting plumbing systems especially potable water ser-

vices.

At the risk of repeating myself… we for the most part must continue doing business under the current condi-

tions. These were my recent suggestions:

• Keep reaching out by phone and/or text… to help

build and/or maintain relationships.

• Take part of Webinars and other virtual sessions

offering product and systems information.

• Keep Chase Freeman our VP Technical updated with any valuable industry information such as:

code info, standards info, etc.

• We affiliates can continue to offer virtual Lunch & Learns and other technical training… we can be creative in sending out to Grub Hub cards or other gift cards that would allow us to remotely provide

lunch for our attendees

Affiliate Liaison’s Report—By Jorge Megias Email: Jorge.Megias@viega.us

Let us hope we can come together again when we kick

off our meetings in a few months… we all look forward

to the comradery and social interaction that our chapter

has always offered us. Until then let us stay positive,

healthy and safe.

STAY HEALTHY MY FRIENDS!

Jorge

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things

turn out." John Wooden

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CENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLUMBING ENGINEERS

P.O. Box 2522 Winter Park, Florida 32790

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President Eric Knauth, PE, LEED AP EXP 407.660.0088 Eric.knauth@exp.com

Vice-President Technical Chase Freeman Spirit Group, Inc. 321.436.9914 cfreeman@spiritgroupinc.com

Vice-President Legislative Dale Peterson, CPD, FASPE TLC Engineering Solutions 407.841.9050 Dale.peterson@tlc-eng.com

Education Chair Edwin Gonzalez, CPD EXP 407.660.0088 egonza386@gmail.com

Vice-President Membership Jonathan Kennen RLF 407.738.8600 jak@rlfae.com

Corresponding Secretary Diane Wingard, CPD, FASPE Migre Engineers 407.636.7999 diane@migre-eng.com

Treasurer Melissa Green Moen 407.739.1693 melissa.green@moen.com

Affiliate Liason Jorge Megias Viega 407.242.0132 jorge.megias@viega.us

AYP (ASPE Young Professional) Drew Williamson EXP 407.660.0088 drew.williamson@exp.com

WOA (Women Of ASPE) Liaison Cristina Salido, CPDT Ingenuity Engineers 407.398.6007 cristinamsalido@gmail.com

Newsletter Editor Robert Lowell, CPD Atkins 407.806.4191 robert.lowelll@atkinsglobal.com

Webmaster Drew Williamson EXP 407.660.0088 drew.williamson@exp.com

All contributions to this newsletter are welcome, whether it be an article, Lessons Learned photo, etc. We will publish the newsletter one week prior to the chapter meeting, which is held on the 4th Tuesday of each month. Please have all contributions submitted no later than the 3rd Monday of each month to be considered for that month’s issue. Contribu-tions received after the deadline will be held until the following month.