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Plumbing & Mechanical Top Stories

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Meet the 2025 Residential Contractor of the Year:  Jolly Plumbing, Drains, Heating & Air

Meet the 2025 Residential Contractor of the Year: Jolly Plumbing, Drains, Heating & Air

When Brady Jolly steps into the office each morning, he’s carrying more than the responsibility of running a nearly 60-person business. He’s carrying forward the legacy of a company his parents founded back in 1979 — a company that has reinvented itself more than once and is today on a mission to "reimagine how the world experiences home services."

By: Natalie Forster
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Continuing education: Designing right-sized plumbing systems for housing affordability, water efficiency and public health

Continuing education: Designing right-sized plumbing systems for housing affordability, water efficiency and public health

This article provides plumbing engineers and system designers with strategies for right-sizing residential plumbing systems based on modern water use data and highlights how traditional sizing methods, like the Hunter’s Curve, often lead to oversized systems that increase costs and wastewater.


By: Andrew A Hunt
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Thermal energy networks and the future of radiant

Thermal energy networks and the future of radiant

As the building industry shifts to electrification, decarbonization, and high-efficiency infrastructure, radiant heating and cooling professionals lead the change. At this year’s AHR Expo in Orlando, FL, Greg Cunniff of Egg Geo presented 'Future of BEST – Net the Energy with Community Thermal Energy Networks'.

By: Greg Cunniff P.E.
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  • Teacher helping a college student studying plumbing. Both are wearing protective goggles while using a saw.  Other students are in the slightly blurred background.

    Recruit character, teach skill

    By: Phil Hotarek
  • USA (left) and EEC (right) flags fading to the center.

    The European union's due diligence mandate: implications in a global economy

    By: Misty Guard
  • A 3/4" copper water main has frozen and cracked below ground outside a house. The background is excavated dirt.

    Preventing sprinkler freeze failures starts long before the cold arrives

    By: Karl Wiegand, PE
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    Podcast: All hands on deck: Technical training for the next generation of pros

    By: Natalie Forster
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