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ASPE NEWS PITTSBURGH OCTOBER 2011 NEWSLETTER

Monthly Association Meeting

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Monday October 10, 2011 4:30—5:30 Board Meeting 5:30—6:00 Social with Cash Bar 6:00—6:45 Dinner 6:45—8:00 Business Meeting Thermal Heat Tracing Tyco Thermal Del's Italian Restaurant and Bar 4428 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224 $22.00 Kevin M. Morrissey; kmorrissey@mwspec.com

As we wander the big world of Plumbing I never cease to be amazed by the ingenu-ity of Architects, Engineers and Government. It seems the good folks in San Fran-cisco California have a problem with an abundance of Homeless people and resis-tance from the Building Owners to make private property toilet facilities accessible to this segment of the community. We in Pittsburgh, to a lesser degree, have a simi-lar problem. Nonetheless, lets get back to the proposed solution….. POOPLETS This is to be a portable total restroom facility, set in a parking space where needed, and available to any public user. The article I read did not go into great detail about the water supply, waste disposal, housekeeping, nor security. I cannot say that it won’t work, but I remember the Edsel automobile. A great idea that had very good features and ideas that were not really well designed and tested before the product was put in the market place. As you know from the last meeting our 2012 Day Planner is to have a section iden-tified as Friends of ASPE where a quarter, half or full page ad can be placed in the publication. This is intended to allow small firms or individuals to get representa-tion at a low cost. We need some rubber on the road activity by members to fill these pages. The board is asking each member to contact an employer, an associate or just a friend of ASPE to consider a quarter page ad at $80.00. If anyone has an idea on how to promote this section of the Day Planner speak up and we will fol-low up. I want to take a few lines to ask members who may not have been at a meeting in a while to make a special effort to attend this months meeting. Last months topic was timely, interesting and we had Mike Como there to answer questions on how the use of a central control for water temperature is to be handled by the Allegheny County Health Department, Plumbing Section. The bottom line is that in an Engi-neered System for a major facility the system will be considered on its merits and accepted. Thanks…..Jerry

President : Jerome Valenti

Greetings to all, and welcome to the Pittsburgh Chapter of ASPE. It's our Oc-tober 10th, 2011 meeting. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that could make it for our last meeting. The ASPE folks who attend help make the monthly meeting a success. We also urge you to bring colleagues with you, to our meeting if they are in-terested in the presentation or becoming a member. You do not have to be a member to attend the meeting. Our October meeting will include a popular thermal heat tracing technology. This will be a very informative presentation for contractors, engineers, design-ers. This will be presented by Mr. Mark Hall. Also a table top of selected prod-ucts will be on display from Tyco thermal products for your review. I look for-ward to seeing you all there. We have openings left for the presentations coming up. If there is a specific topic you would enjoy, or would like to make a presentation, for the second session of this year then, please contact me at the meeting or at my email ad-dress bgold@astorino.com cell phone number is 412-596-7444. The “Plumbing Systems & Design” magazine still offers members a way of earning CEU’s at no cost. September's topic for CEU’s is on “Automatic sprin-kler systems”. Members will need to log in at www.psdmagazine.org, read the article and take the exam online. By receiving a 90% or better, you have the potential of receiving 0.1 CEU’s. Thanks, Barry

VP Technical: Barry Gold

VP Technical: Barry Gold

Month

9/12/2011 Joe Previt of Thermatics/ Joe Previt of Armstrong/ThermaticsArmstrong water temp maintenance.412-780-0638advantages of digital temperaturecontrol mixing valves412- 780-0638 screen and projector speakers

10/10/2011 Mark Hall Tyoc thermal Mark Hall Tyoc thermalHeat trace technology Heat trace technology

11/14/2011 Tom Guile - Haws Tom GuileTony 724-816-0831 ANSI standard Z358.1 2009 version

12/12/2011 ----- HOLIDAY TABLETOPS

1 102 113 124 135 146 157 168 179

1/9/2012 Tom Hannah Power ex Tom hannah 513-367-3960Thannah@powerexinc.com med air and vacuum

power ex 1-888-769-7979

2/13/2012 Jack Getkin Solar water heating Jack Getkin Solar water heatingfrom Apricaus tentative from Apricaus - tentative

3/12/2012 OPEN OPEN

4/9/2012 George Fisher LLC Kevin Klaum of George Fisher LLCHigh purity piping systems 714-788-2835

5/14/2012 OPEN OPEN

Member holiday table top is $75 Non-member holiday table top is $100

ASPE 2011-2012 Presenters and TabletopsTABLETOP - $50.00 Topic of meeting Presentation- cannot be

manufacturer specificProduct Specific

Please contact Barry Gold if you would like to sign up for a

tabletop or have an idea for a speaker/topic.

The following months are open for both a speaker and tabletops:

March 2012 May 2012

We have not received our October membership printout from national. As of the September 6, 2011 membership roster printout received from the Society office, our total number of members is 96. Our membership total breaks down as follows: 52 Full

3 Associate 29 Affiliate

0 Governmental 11 Special 0 Student 1 Retired

25 members have their P. E.

15 have their CPD 2 members have both

The following members celebrate a birthday in the month of September. Please wish them a HAPPY BIRTHDAY if you see them.

Chris Graham, CPD October 18 Vincent Cerro October 21 Deborah Neumaier October 24 Don Ditter, CPD October 28 Ray Paff October 29

Thanks, Paul

VP Membership: Paul McKee

We had a tremendous turnout for our first meeting of this season. Thank you for all those who attended. I was asked to be sure to include the list of attendees for our meetings. You will find Septembers list in this newsletter. If you are an engineer and need to a list of the meetings that you attended last year, please let me know and I can send that to you. Please help Barry and your ASPE chapter...in need to tabletops and speakers to fill out our schedule. PLEASE remember to RSVP if you can attend the October meeting! Regards, Kevin

Secretary:

Kevin M. Morrissey

From your Yearbook Committee:

Please remember that our membership roster in the annual Pittsburgh Chapter Day Planner is populated using the current roster that is obtained from the ASPE national roster. To assure that the correct information appears in our year-book I am asking that all members take a few moments and log in to the ASPE website (www.aspe.org) and double check their information. The instructions to do this are located below.

Once logged on, review your profile. We thank you in advance for you continued support.

ASPE History Lesson

The year was 1964 and on September 17th Bewitched, starring Elizabeth Montgom-ery, premiered on ABC. The very next day September 18 as “Samantha Stevens was wiggling her nose to perform some magic”; The American Society of Plumb-ing Engineers (ASPE) was incorporated in Los Angeles, CA. The first board of directors elected to a one-year term was as follows: • President: Donald F. Dickerson • 1st Vice President: Horace Yeh • 2nd Vice President: Edward Saltzberg • 3rd Vice President: Richard Owens • Administrative Secretary: Eugene Mandel • Treasurer: Richard W. Drenske • Corresponding Secretary: Wayne Jensen  The first ASPE chapter, Los Angeles was also chartered along with the first ASPE Data Book being presented to the Data Book Committee in loose-leaf binder format that year. Stay tuned in future newsletters for some other interesting information on ASPE and our Chapter. Maybe we will even run a few Trivia games throughout the year at the monthly meetings for some good prizes. Your Chapter Historian Don Ditter

BACK IN TIME

September Attendance—Thank You

Name Firm Breier, Doug Water Heater Distributors Campbell, Bill V-Systems Cerro, Vince Allen & Shariff Como, Mike Allegheny County Health Dept Graham, Chris Stantec Curtiss, Jerry Jr. Curtiss & Associates Daerr, Bill L&R Associates Ditter, Don H.F. Lenz Dolgos, Scott Negle Fazio, Dennis Fleischman, Bob Delval Frank, Phil P.L. Frank Inc Garella, Bill Pinnacle Sales Gold, Barry Astorino Hemphill, John Zurn Howard, Corey Fehr and Howard McKee, Paul CJL Engineering Mehn, Vince Squibb Owens Sales Morrissey, Kevin Midwest Spec Musillo, Jim Musillo Sales Norbutt, John McKamish Previt, Joe (Speaker) Thermatics / Armstrong Reese, Eric Dodson Engineering Reft, Mike Astorino Richards, Pete Claitman Engineering Rusalov, Anatoly V-Systems Smith, Jeff Midwest Spec Sokolsky, Alex Stantec Solera, Ken Lochinvar Starr, Joe Conroy Starr Taylor, Tom Allen & Shariff Torchia, Greg Allen & Shariff Valenti, Jerry Chapter President Zuccarelli, Joe Montour Industrial Supply

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