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Mestek’s Residential Comfort Group (RCG) recently launched a new website, www.heatingcoolinghomes.com.

The new microsite provides easy access to the company’s history and achievements, position papers, latest product information and news releases.

cdpACCESS, ICC’s cloud-based code development process tool, produces its first monograph.

Features include: true back pullout; internally self-flushing mechanical seal; computer-controlled impeller balancing; heavy-duty, rugged baseplate; solid-foot-mounted volute; center drop-out spacer coupling; ANSI/OSHA-compliant coupling guard; and i-ALERT condition monitor option.

The Charlotte, North Carolina area has .75 to 1.5 parts per million of chlorine in its water and outlying areas have up to 3.5 ppm of chloramine, a derivitive of ammonia. It’s almost like drinking pool water, says Paul Stefano, general manager of the Charlotte Benjamin Franklin Plumbing franchise.

The average home’s water leaks can account for more than 10,000 gal. wasted each year — the amount of water needed to wash 270 loads of laundry. And 10% of homes have leaks that waste more than 90 gal. of water every day.

The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.5 million, was little different from 2012. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data is available, the union membership rate was 20.1% and there were 17.7 million union workers.

Complete suite of services includes calculations and layouts.

Herschel Seder died March 1, 2014, at age 95.

WorldSkills Foundation’s Water Innovation Challenge is supported by the World Plumbing Council and runs from June 3-5, 2014.