Industry News IAPMO celebrates 85 years of protecting health and safety
onTArIo, CAlIF. — When a group of los Angeles plumb- ing inspectors on a coffee break in 1926 hatched the idea to form an association to deal with plumbing issues in the city, little could they have
imagined 85 years later their brainchild would protect the health and safety of roughly half the planet’s 6.8 bil- lion people. Formally founded on May 17, 1926, as the los
Angeles City Plumbing Inspectors Association, what is now the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical officials (IAPMo) develops and promotes a family of model codes that include the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC®), the provisions of which form the basis of plumbing codes across the globe. These original 39 members, though initially focused
ATS partner with Stingray Systems
ToronTo, onTArIo — Allied Technical Services (ATS) has introduced Stingray Systems as its latest sponsor in the U.S. Stingray Systems is dedicated to providing com- mercial plumbing solutions to the north American design community. Its brands and product categories include the following: • Drench lab™: An emergency product line that
matches equipment with patented emergency valve tech- nology to ensure proper use as per AnSI Z358.1 and ASSe1071. Drench lab emergency valves are packaged with wall mount eye/face wash stations, pedestal eye/face wash stations, deck mount drenching units, floor mount combination drench shower and eye/face wash stations, wall mount drench showers and wall mount combination stations. • Chill lab™: A product line of fountains, electric cool-
ers and bottle fillers, hi/low fountain and chiller units, ADA-compliant products, wall hung/wall mounted solu- tions, and pedestal fountains for outdoor applications. All products in the Chill lab line meet the safe drinking water requirements of nSF. • Tempering lab™: A product line of tempering valves
and capacity delivery systems for hospitals/healthcare, schools/education, hotels/motels and hospitality, restau- rants/food service, corporate/high-rise, multi-family units, government facilities/prisons and retail operations. This latest sponsorship and product category inclusion
of Stingray Systems on the ATS spec website will allow ATS to provide an even more extensive product offering to engineers, architects and interior designers. The ATS Spec Service is a no-cost, no catch plumbing specification information system that connects the design community and their spec building requirements with the
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solely upon their own city, left plenty of room in the mission of their first constitution to grow into the far- reaching international body IAPMo is today: “To advance the latest and most improved methods of sani- tation; To promote the welfare of and the harmony between the owner, builder and the craftsman; To accomplish uniformity in the application of the provi- sions of the ordinances.” Since that time, The IAPMo Group has grown into a
multinational operation with offices in 13 nations fea- turing services spanning from code development, train- ing and education to product testing and certification. In addition to the UPC, IAPMo publishes the Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC®), Uniform Solar energy Code (USeC®) and Uniform Swimming Pool, Spa and Hot Tube Code (USPC®) — each of which has been designated an American national Standard by the American national Standards Institute.
leading manufacturers’ products of the plumbing indus- try. With the ATS spec services, designers may conve- niently review manufacturers’ product details and build a complete and accurate plumbing specification package. Packages are complete with images, written specs, 3D BIM design details, budget pricing and much more. To learn more, visit
www.atsspec.net.
Product guide highlights CALGreen-compliant products
DeS PlAIneS, Ill.— Chicago Faucets is lead- ing the way to support the new California Green Building Code (CAlGreen) with its new CAlGreen Products Guide, high- lighting almost 200 products designed to meet the new code requirements. The full-color prod-
ucts guide describes, in simplified terms, the code that was imple- mented by the California Building Standards Commission on January 1, 2011. The guide also lists model numbers of Chicago Faucets products that meet the new CAlGreen code. CAlGreen is the nation’s first mandatory, state-wide green building code intended to encourage more sustain-
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