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Plumbing & Mechanical Engineer

  • Plumbing & Mechanical Engineer
    • Decarbonization | Electrification
    • Fire Protection
    • Geothermal | Solar Thermal
    • Piping | Plumbing | PVF
    • Christoph Lohr: Strategic Plumbing Insights
    • David Dexter: Plumbing Talking Points
    • James Dipping: Engineer Viewpoints
    • John Seigenthaler: Renewable Heating Design
    • Lowell Manalo: Plumbing Essentials
    • Misty Guard: Guard on Compliance

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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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  • Decarbonization | Electrification
  • Fire Protection
  • Geothermal | Solar Thermal
  • Piping | Plumbing | PVF
  • Christoph Lohr: Strategic Plumbing Insights
  • David Dexter: Plumbing Talking Points
  • James Dipping: Engineer Viewpoints
  • John Seigenthaler: Renewable Heating Design
  • Lowell Manalo: Plumbing Essentials
  • Misty Guard: Guard on Compliance

Podcasts

  • And so it flows - Missed Calls
    The cost of missed calls
  • And So It Flows with Katherine Lehtinen, SVP of Marketing for Oatey
    How training and collaboration are powering the trades with Oatey's Katherine Lehtinen
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  • Webstone Valves introduced its new, innovative The Isolator valve at the 2016 AHR Expo in Orlando.

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