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Final hearing for 2021 ICC codes upcoming in October.
The 2018 ASPE Convention and Expo is Sept. 28-Oct. 3 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. If you are not planning to be there, you may want to change your schedule immediately to attend the event.
This is a year where major changes will take place on the ASPE Board of Directors. With Mitch Clemente, CPD, FASPE, completing his term as president, there will be a shift in several other positions. The Nominating Committee published its recommended slate of candidates. If the slate is elected, it would be the first time in more than 20 years that five Professional Engineers will serve on the ASPE board.
ASPE also recently hired Ramiro Mata as senior director of technical and regulatory affairs. My good friend Mata previously served in a similar capacity at CSA. He will be handling many of the codes and standards activities for ASPE.
ASPE has had a much greater presence in codes and standard activities. ASPE Executive Director and CEO Billy Smith, FASPE, currently is the chair of the ASME A112 Plumbing Standards Committee and he chairs the IAPMO WE·STAND Committee, not to mention his membership on the IAPMO Plumbing Technical Committee.
It is anticipated Mata will begin assuming more of Smith's roles on codes and standards committees. Mata also will be showing up at the code hearings testifying on behalf of ASPE.
ASPE has submitted a number of code changes during the last three code-change cycles. It also has introduced many of its design standards into the plumbing codes. Some of the changes are related to research...