Codes & Standards

ASSE International Publishes Revised Performance Requirements for Plumbing Aspects of Residential...

ASSE 1008-2019, Performance Requirements for Plumbing Aspects of Residential Food Waste Disposer Units, has been designated as an American National Standard by...

How Do Harmonized Standards Affect Product Listings?

My colleague Terry Burger has written in detail about the evolution and benefits of writing harmonized standards (see pages 10-12). Often the...

2020 ASSE International Mid-Year Meeting Recap

The 2020 ASSE International Mid-Year Meeting was held April 14-15. For the first time, the Mid-Year Meeting – which was originally scheduled...

Significant Increase In Legionellosis From Building Water Systems

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during the period between 2000 and 2018, the rate of reported cases...

Goodbye & Hello

Prevention Rather Than Cure” has been ASSE’s motto for as long as anyone can remember. It is a motto that we quote...

New and Improved ASSE Code Development Committee

As Chairperson of the ASSE International Code Committee for the past couple of years, including the 2021 model code process, it came...

Reverse Osmosis Water Efficiency

In keeping with the theme of this issue, I decided to provide some history and background into the development of ASSE 1086,...

Rainwater Catchment Systems

ASSE depends on the knowledge and expertise of working group members to help us develop comprehensive standards that establish minimum qualifications for...

Superior Docs & Markings

Think about that piece of furniture you put together that ended up being crooked or wobbly, despite painstakingly going step-by-step with the instructions. Or...

Is Change a Good Thing?

As with so many questions we ask in the cross-connection industry, there are both simple and complicated answers to this question. The...