Named to IAPMO Hydronics Standards Committee
BNP Plumbing Group Columnist Dave Yates was appointed to IAPMO's Hydronics Standards Committee (HSC) as a voting member by the organization's executive committee. Yates will serve in the general interest category for a term of two years. As an HSC member,...
Legionella in HVAC
Taking a deeper look. In 1976, while attending an American Legion Convention at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, 211 people became ill and 34 of them died from what was thought to be a previously unknown type of bacterial pneumonia. After this outbreak and...
Adventures in Hydronic Heating Volume 2
eBook We are proud to present the second of the four-part eBook series that chronicles Dave’s “Adventures in Hydronic Heating.” Dave shares some of his most memorable success stories on the jobsite — wins that saved his customers countless amounts of energy and...
6 COVID-19 business tips
Capitalize on a cooped up population hungry to enhance safety, comfort and peace-of-mind. This past week, I experienced my first virtual doctor’s visit. First time for everything, right? Before I was permitted to meet with my doctor, I had to first pass a Zoom test...
Believe it or not
A story of poorly specified products in a mismanaged ER. My dear, sweet 95-year-old mother-in-law fell and cracked several vertebrae last year. A few days later, she was having extreme pain and her doctor told us we should take her to the ER at one of our two local...
From bourbon to hand sanitizer
Helping out in a time of need. I was intrigued by a post on Facebook from Jason Barrett. The post went like this: “8 days ago we made Bourbon for a living.5 days ago we shut down production, in compliance with state requests.4 days ago we learned how to make...
RPA member Viega trains ASSE Standard 19210 hydronic certifications
Viega’s seminar centers in Bloomfield, Colorado and Nashua, New Hampshire, held training and examination sessions in January and February for the ASSE 19210 Hydronic Heating and Cooling Installer certification. Bo DeAngelo, manager of technical training at...
No gas for you!
Will we eventually evolve to an all-electric based PHVAC world? Let’s turn back the hands of time to the 1970s, and gather round you youngsters born after 1980 because you’re not going to believe what mechanical contractors faced while fighting to keep their vehicles...
Adventures in Hydronic Heating
eBook We are proud to present the first in a four-part eBook series that chronicles Dave’s “Adventures in Hydronic Heating.” Dave dug deep into his archives to share some of his most memorable success stories on the jobsite — wins that saved his customers countless...
X marks the spot
The PHVAC industry is ever changing and ever evolving. Suppose I was to tell you there exists a tankless water heater you could install on the hardest of hard water that would never, ever have to be descaled and that its heat exchanger’s water pathways would look...