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2012-2013 OFFICERS PRESIDENT

David J. Scofield TMG Engineering, Inc.

1090 King Georges Post Rd. #903 Edison, NJ 08837

[email protected] P: 732-738-9670

VICE PRESIDENT- TECHNICAL

Ryan P. Mullen, P.E. The Rock Brook Consulting Group

2351 U.S. Highway 130, ste 2 Dayton, NJ 08810

[email protected] P: 732-438-1600 x172

VICE PRESIDENT- LEGISLATIVE

Karl E. Yrjanainen, P.E., CPD HDR Inc.

1000 Lenox Drive Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-2312 [email protected]

P: 609-791-7296

VICE PRESIDENT- MEMBERSHIP Brendan Dowd

Synergy Process Solutions [email protected]

P: 973-975-5044

TREASURER Bob Copeland Cullen Assoc.

10 Memorial Dr. Neptune, NJ 07753

[email protected] P: 732-988-9600

EDUCATION CHAIR Mitchell Weiss, P.E.

Gannett Fleming, Inc. 1000 Atrium Way

Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 [email protected]

P: 856-802-9930

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Noel F. Crespo

Johnson & Urban Consulting Engineers 295 Highway 34

Colts Neck, NJ 07722 [email protected]

P: 732-772-1500

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Terrence Moore

Maloney & Curcio P.O. Box 1490

Linden, NJ 07036 [email protected]

P: 908-486-0900

AFFILIATE LIAISON James Farrell

Conroy and Griese Sales Inc. 1951 Old Cuthbert Rd. Unit 307

Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 [email protected]

P: 908-889-4459 F: 908-889-5074

Local chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society.

November 2013 Volume 40, Issue 7

Inside this issue:

On the Legislative Side - V.P. Legislative Report

6

Let’s Get Technical - V.P.

9

Advertising Rates 13

Meeting Schedule 14

NEXT MEETING

Date: November 19, 2013 (Tuesday)

Topic: Compressed Air Systems

Speaker: Craig Ranalli, Sherman Engineering Co.

Time: 5:30 p.m. Social Hour, 6:30 p.m. Dinner/Speaker

Where: Dominic’s R-C

453 Avenel Street Avenel, NJ 07001

Cost: $ 30.00 Pre-Register / $ 35.00 At the Door

Contact: Bob Copeland, Cullen Associates (732) 988-9600

For those members who have stopped being members for one reason of another ASPE is offer-ing a cost-saving membership program to help past members reinstate their ASPE membership

for only $95! To take advantage of this offer, call 847-296-0002 x227 or e-mail [email protected] for more details. Hurry, this promotion ends soon. Note: promotion is only valid for member-ships that expired prior to 2013. This is a great opportunity to renew an ASPE membership which has expired.

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From the President’s Desk By Dave Scofield

MARK YOUR

CALENDARS!

ANNUAL Holiday Meeting

December 17, 2013

Dominic’s R-C

Avenel, NJ

Luis Rodriguez (l) and Ryan Mullen (r) proudly represented the NJ Chapter at the recent ASPE Convention in Char-lotte, N.C.

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In reference to upcoming 2014 Lead Free Standards. You can go to website http://www.aaronco.com/lead-faq.htm where you can find answers to questions you might have in regards to the Reduction of lead in Drinking Wa-ter Act. Our Monthly Newsletter has had a few bugs we have worked out and will be posted in a timely manner for the remainder of the year. My apolo-gies to all our chapter members, For those who missed the past few monthly newsletters, they will be available on our NJ Chapter website. As I mention every month. I would just like to put out a request for More ASPE members to attend OUR monthly meeting and share any in-teresting information you may have with others. See how others are designing and completing successful projects. I am always interested in how we solve problems that occur during de-sign, construction and inspection. We can learn a lot from our very knowledgeable membership. Hope to see you at a meeting or two you will not be disappointed. Any comments or questions email me at [email protected]. I hope everyone has a great Holiday season.

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From the President’s Desk

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On the Legislative Side By Karl Yrjanainen, P.E., CPD, LEED AP BD&C

This month I wanted to alert you that the US EPA WaterSense program has issued a Notice of Intent to develop a specification for flushometer-valve toilets. It

describes the efficiency and performance criteria being considered for the draft specifi-cation, as well as technical issues that need further clarification. It is important to note that US government projects require you to provide fixtures that comply with the Water-Sense program. So when the specification for flushometer-valve toilets is published your spec must comply with the available WaterSense standards. Comments on the NOI can be sent to [email protected]. Their goal is to develop the specification in 2014, but it is contingent upon the schedule for incorporating the rele-vant revisions from updates to the ASME/CSA A112.19.2-2008/CSA B45.1 Standard for Ceramic Plumbing Fixtures (as dis-cussed in Section IV of the NOI), as well as adequate resolution of the questions and is-sues presented in the NOI. So this may be a late 2014 or 2015 standard. As I mentioned last month National is asking the chapters to review the proposed chang-es to the Uniform Plumbing and Mechanical Codes. We needed to compile our com-ments and get them to the ASPE Legislative Committee by November 15, so if you have any comments get them to me ASAP. Give me any suggestions you might have in sup-port of or in opposition to the position of the IAMPMO Technical Committee’s actions on the proposed changes. The ASPE Technical Committee will review all the comments and

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Let’s Get Technical By Noel Crespo

So far this year we have had two meetings with interesting presenta-tions. The September meeting speaker was Bob Barrett who dis-cussed hot water design and questioned us if the

old methods of hot water design still apply today. With water reduction fixtures and schools where showers are no longer used, do our calculation spread sheets still apply? In the presentation he also challenged the design of multi-family residential projects. Are two and three bedroom apartments still occupied by the same number of occupants as they were 30 years ago? Does location and affluence of the apartment complex af-fect the amount of domestic hot water used? Throughout our careers we will most likely not come to know the answers to all of these questions. What differentiates a good engineer from the rest is not so much what he knows but knowing which questions need to be addressed before a design is put together.

Our October meeting presentation was on a topic most of us have seen but don’t spend all that much time thinking about until we are in the field looking at a pipe 15 ft. above our heads wondering what it is. Raymond Batkay presented the differ-ent styles of pipe markers, why contractors would prefer some over others and their dif-ferent advantages and disadvantages. This is a topic we tend not to focus on and usually deal with at the end of a design job as a specification item. We should think

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submit them to IAPMO by January 3, 2014. To access the IAPMO Technical Commit-tee’s reports with the proposed changes you can go to the following links: Uniform Mechanical Code - Report on

Proposals Uniform Plumbing Code - Report on Pro-

posals

Finally I also hope you got out to our last meeting, if not try to come out to at least one meeting you won’t regret it., I’ll see you there.

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On the Legislative Side

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about it more as they make the job com-plete and help the end users better manage their systems. Our next meeting presentation will be on the

design and implementation of Compressed

air systems, I hope to see you there.

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Let’s Get Technical

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