ASSE 1118: Criteria for Digital Mixing Valves
In the ever-evolving landscape of plumbing technology, precision and performance are no longer optional; they're essential. As engineered hot water systems grow more sophisticated,...
Rethinking Barometric Loops
We all likely have things we believe in, even though we have probably never seen them for ourselves. Depending on where you live, the...
Pressure Vacuum Breaker Assemblies (PVB)
Pressure Vacuum Breaker Assemblies (PVBs) are one of many types of backflow prevention devices designed to protect the public from unsafe conditions caused by...
Vacuum Breaker Testing Standards
Backflow refers to the unwanted reversal of fluid flow in a piping system — essentially when water moves in the opposite direction from what’s...
Backflow Prevention Product Standards
As an engineering student at North Carolina State University, I recall the first time I was ever introduced to the concept of backflow. I...
ASSE 1069, 1070 & 1071
For this edition of Working Pressure magazine, I would like to discuss three standards that are not familiar to many people and whose applications...
Construction Risk Assessment Qualifications for Engineers, Designers, Inspectors and Commissioning Agents
ASSE/IAPMO/ANSI/CAN Series 12000-2024, Professional Qualification Standard for Water Management and Infection Control Risk Assessment for Building Systems, first developed in 2015, addresses professionals working...
The Anatomy of an ASSE International Standard
But first a little history…
Even during the Middle Ages, an era bookended by the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century...
Water Heaters
With this issue of Working Pressure focusing on safety, I thought it would be a good time to revisit a topic previously discussed back...
Building Qualification Competency Through Standards Development
Change is the only constant in life and, ironically, it's also the thing people hate the most. We’ll update our phones every week but...