Mike Flenniken

Home construction with hot and cold blue and red pex pipe layout in pipes new bathtub house PVC wastewater system.

California homebuilder leads the way as early adopter of IAPMO’s Water Demand Calculator

Villara has been utilizing tool to enable right-sizing of water pipes in more than 5,000 single-family homes.

October 28, 2024

Appendix M of the IAPMO Uniform Plumbing Code, or the Water Demand Calculator, was integrated into the California Plumbing Code on July 1. It provides a new method for sizing water pipes in residential buildings. For Villara Corp., a leading plumbing and HVAC contractor in Northern California, it remains business as usual, having used the calculator for over five years to construct over 5,000 single-family homes.

Rebuilding effort in Paradise, California focuses on fire-safe buildings

Rebuilding Paradise

Mike Flenniken

July 24, 2024

The Camp Fire in Butte County, California, started in 2018, destroying over 18,000 structures and causing 85 deaths. Paradise, a town 90 miles north of Sacramento, lost about 95% of its buildings, but It is on the road to recovery.

Sidewalks above the snow-melt system are made of brick pavers.

Radiant Comfort Report Spring 2024 Edition

Holland Michigan's 35-year-old snow-melt system makes it a year-round destination

Let it snow

Mike Flenniken

May 29, 2024

In 1988, Holland, Michigan’s downtown needed revitalization. Merchants were leaving for a nearby indoor mall. Local industrialist Ed Prince proposed installing a snow-melt system for the streets and sidewalks after seeing a similar system in Europe.