Plumbing For Health
In busy urban healthcare centers, safe water is as essential as medicine — yet it is often taken for granted until something fails. A...
Fire Protection: Water is the Hazard?
When we look at the required cross-connection protection, it is important to understand the system type, piping material, water supply to the system, and...
Protecting Our Water
Backflow may not be a household term, but it plays a significant role in safeguarding the health and safety of millions of people every...
Why Are We Moving Backwards?
Our country is in a fractured state. We are more divided now than we have been at any other point in my lifetime. Things...
Backflow Prevention and Health Care Quiz
According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...
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...
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...
Celebrating the Leadership and Impact of Two ASSE International Board Members
In this edition of Working Pressure, we’ll be shinning a light on the remarkable journeys and contributions of Brianne Hall and Doreen Cannon, two...
Medical Gas Design and the ASSE 6060
With the publication of the ASSE/IAPMO/ANSI Series 6000-2021, Professional Qualifications Standard for Medical Gas Systems Personnel, we saw the creation of the new ASSE...
Treatment Methods For Onsite Alternate Water Treatment Systems
Onsite alternate water treatment systems have been a growing national interest since the National Blue Ribbon Commission (NBRC) launched a series of publications in...