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Hope everybody has their Christmas shopping done because I sure don’t. Of course I’m the habitual Christmas Eve shopper anyway. I just never seem to find the time. I’ve decorated the outside of the house under the watchful eye of my wife. The missing or burned out light bulbs have been replaced and the decorations have been moved around to a more eye pleasing location. I’m still decorating the inside of the house. From my family to yours, we hope you have a happy and safe Holiday Season!!

UCLA Extension has started the Advanced Plumbing Systems Design certificate program which is sponsored by ASPE. The online design courses start January 5, 2015. This fall the following courses will be offered: Plumbing Systems I - Code and Engineering Fundamentals, Plumbing Systems II - Advanced Engineering Systems, Fire Protection for Plumbing Engineering, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and Electrical Design and Construction. Courses may be taken individually or as part of the Advanced Plumbing Systems Design certificate program. For more information, go to the ASPE website www.aspe.org.

The next edition of ASPE Journal is now available on the ASPE website at aspe.org/aspejournal. You will have to log in

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President’s Report

December 2014

The American Society of Plumbing Engineers

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION

CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER P. O. Box 2571 Columbus, OH 43216-2571

Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society

Reminder— We will be taking reservations for lunch meetings only via e-mail.

Prior to each meeting you will receive an email from me with details of the meeting. Please email me your reservation for the meeting by simply clicking on the reply button. Type YES if you are going to attend or NO if you can’t make it. Then SEND your reply. If you have a guest, send his/her name and company in the body of the response.

Donald E. Konkle

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January Lunch Meeting

January 12, 2015

Spaghetti Warehouse

397 West Broad

Columbus, OH 43215

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

$20.00 per meal

SUBJECT: Seismic Restraint and Vibration Control

SPEAKER: Raj Prime, Mason Industries

PLEASE REMEMBER, if you make a reservation, you are expected to pay, whether you attend or not. Cancellation deadline it 5:30pm the Thursday before the meeting.

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VP Technical—Tony Furst

Tony Furst Vice President Technical

As we approach the end of the year and the

upcoming holidays I would like to personally

wish each and every one of you and your

families a warm and wonderful Christmas and a

prosperous New Year. I also ask that as we all

sit down to enjoy the holidays with friends and

family to please remember those who serve our

country in the military and in public service and

thank them for their dedication.

Our program for January will be on seismic

restraint and vibration control. Mr. Raj Prime

from Mason Industries will be here to discuss

the requirements for proper seismic bracing of

pipe and equipment. Mr. Prime is the regional

sales manager for Mason Industries. Prior to

that he was an applications engineer for Mason

Industries. Mr. Prime received his bachelor’s

degree in mechanical engineering from the

University of Massachusetts and is a current

voting member of ASHRAE’s Technical Com-

mittee TC;2.6, “Sound and Vibration Control”.

We will have a very special guest here in

February as our guest speaker, Mr. Mitch

Clemente the newly elected President of ASPE

will be here to share his vision for the future of

ASPE. Please make sure you are here for this

very special meeting to welcome our new

president and show him how great the Central

Ohio Chapter is.

The upcoming program year looks to be an

exciting one and I hope that everyone is enjoy-

ing the variety of technical topics we are cover-

ing. I would love to hear from you our mem-

bers on any specific topics you would like to

see covered please drop me an e-mail to

tfurst@brunercorp.com.

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Mark Simpson Chapter President

Chad Dupler Vice President Membership

VP Membership—Chad Dupler

Greetings Membership,

Have you got your Christmas shopping done? Me neither. It seems it gets harder and harder to find the time every year. I hope you make it. We currently have 72 members and that includes a couple new members. Welcome to our Central Ohio chapter Regina Condy & Bruce Mendes. Nice to have you and we’re looking forward to having each of you participate in our chapter.

Are you or someone in your immediate family thinking about getting an engineering degree? Up to $3,000 in scholarship money is available for qualified applicants through ASPE's Alfred Steele Scholarship. This is limited to ASPE members and their immediate families. The application deadline is January 31, 2015. Go to the ASPE website for all the details and qualifi-cations for this terrific scholarship opportunity.

I hope you and your family have the merriest of Christmas’s and a safe and prosperous new year.

Yours in Membership,

with your member login to view it. Also the updated version of PEDH Volume 2, Plumbing Engineering Design Handbook Volume 2: Plumbing Systems will be distributed early next year. You will only receive this updated volume if you are an active in good standing.

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Region 2 Affiliate Liaison —- Dann Holmes

We all have so much to be thankful for. Some of you are hunters and recently bagged your tro-phy deer; congratulations. Most of us spent quality time with our families and friends over this past Thanksgiving Day break. Some used a design tip they recently learned by attending their local ASPE Chapter meeting that got them through the final stage of a plumbing design project.

I think it’s safe to say we’re all thankful for the last 4 years of dedicated service Jim Kendzel gave to ASPE. I was fortunate enough to speak with Jim at the recent PMI (Plumbing Manufac-turers International) Fall Conference in Chicago, IL. We wish him the best in his new role as Vice President of Certification at the American Health Information Management Association. www.ahima.org.

The PMI Conference was well attended by many industry notables involved in the manu-facturing of plumbing fixtures and/or their com-ponents. As well as media and certification bod-ies. The conference started with an Executive Panel Discussion featuring key representatives from Bradley, Delta Faucet, Kohler, Moen, Sym-mons, T&S Brass and TOTO. Bill Kurtis, ac-claimed documentary host, producer and broad-caster moderated the event.

We also heard from PMI Consultants who closely monitor what legislative action is taking place in Washington D.C. and California. We know this will eventually affect each and every one of us. Be sure to read the many articles that are sure to populate your upcoming monthly plumbing magazines.

Not only was I thankful to have attended PMI but I was also equally fortunate to attend the PPI (Plastics Pipe Institute) Semi-Annual Meet-ing in Southlake, TX. It was here I learned about the many opportunities there are for plas-tic piping systems.

PPI has numerous divisions. One division is the Building & Construction Division. They just completed the PEX Design Guide 2nd Edition. It’s available for download www.plasticpipe.org/publications/pex_handbook.html. Be sure to add this to your document library. It contains everything you’ve ever wanted to know about PEX, including things you’ve never thought of.

There is also the Conduit; Corrugated; Energy Piping Systems; Municipal & Industrial Divi-sions as well as the Technical Committee. PPI has produced a wealth of knowledge for you and it’s at your fingertips.

Do yourself a favor and bookmark the www.safeplumbing.org and www.plasticpipe.org websites and visit them often. They’re both a valuable resource for the plumbing industry.

We can all be thankful for the addition of a new Chapter in Region 2, the Toronto ASPE Chap-ter. I hope to give a full report on this in my arti-cle next month.

Let me leave you here with one last thing I’m thankful for; our upcoming Hanukkah, Christ-mas and New Year’s Holidays. No matter how you celebrate, be sure to reflect on your own personal accomplishments this past year before reaching out and sharing your good fortune with everyone around you. I’m starting out by shar-ing mine with you.

As always, please feel free to contact me at: Dann Holmes – ASPE Region 2 Affiliate Liaison NSF International – Business Unit Manager dholmes@nsf.org or (734) 214-6222

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ASPE CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER 2014-2015 MEETING and EVENT SCHEDULE

September 8,2014 ASSE Standard 12000

October 8, 20134 Joint ASPE/MCACO/ASHRAE/SFPE

Meeting

November 10, 2014 Domestic Water Booster Systems

December 8, 2014 CPVC Piping Systems VE Decisions

January 12, 2015 Seismic Restraint and Vibration Control

February 9, 2015 ASPE President

March 9,2015 Sump Pump and Pit Sizing and Selection

April 13, 2015 Backflow Prevention Devices

May 11, 2015 Elections

TBD

June 16, 2015 ASPE Golf Outing

President

Mark G. Simpson, CPD

Kohrs Lonnemann Heil Engineers, PSC

Two Miranova Place, Suite 280

Columbus, Ohio 43215

614-228-2180 Fax: 614-228-2183

msimpson@klhengrs.com

Vice President, Technical

Tony Furst

Bruner Corporation

3637 Lacon Road

Hilliard, Ohio 43026

614-334-9000 Fax: 614-334-9001

tfurst@brunercorp.com

Vice President, Legislative

Bill Deardurff, CPD

Dynamix Engineering

855 Grandview Ave.

Columbus, Ohio 43215

614-443-1178 Fax: 614-443-1594

bdeardurff@dynamix-ltd.com

Vice President, Membership

Chad Dupler

Campbell Equipment Co.

P.O. Box 493

Millersport, Ohio 43046

800-466-3050 Fax 419-874-4705

chadd@campbellequipment.com

Treasurer

Hanse Cromer

Steffens-Shultz, Inc.

525 Industrial Mile Road

Columbus, Ohio 43228

614-274-5515 Fax: 614-274-0126

hcromer@steffens-shultz.com

Administrative Secretary

Brad Fitzsimmons

Bruner Corporation

3637 Lacon Road

Hilliard, Ohio 43026

614-334-9000 Fax: 614-334-9001

jbfitzsimmons@brunercorp.com

Corresponding Secretary

Greg Hochstetler, PE, LEED AP

Speer Mechanical

5255 Sinclair Road

Columbus, Ohio 43229

614-261-6331 Fax 614-261-6330

ghochstetler@speermechanical.com

Affiliate Liaison

Thom Rauenswinder

Spears Manufacturing

590 Industrial Drive

Lewisberry, PA 17339

614-766-5294

E-mail: trauenswinder@spearsmfg.net

Officers

The Central Ohio chapter of ASPE newsletter is published as a forum for

its members. Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those

of the society, the Central Ohio chapter or its editors.

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