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2017 Will Be Good For Pipers, Says Retired SPED Executive Director
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“2017 will bring more employment for piping designers and engineers,” says Dr. William Beazley, retired SPED Executive Director. Beazley said Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) plant spending should rise next year and sustained CAPEX spending means more jobs for pipers. “Every $Billion in sustained plant CAPEX adds about 100 jobs for piping designers.” Dr. Beazley made his comments in a video Keynote address for the 2016 SPED Annual General Business Meeting (AGBM), December 8, 2016.
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IBS 2017: Residential Piping Systems Grow in Complexity
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By William G. Beazley, PhD, PE
Piping designers and engineers who typically ignore the opportunities in the residential and commercial/mechanical market may not realize how complex these piping/plumbing systems have become. A residential house, for example, may handle five or six separate fluids with different properties, with pumps, exchangers, boilers, sensors, actuated valves and complex control systems. Piping materials range from black iron, cast iron, stainless, copper, brass, PVC, PEX, etc. Joining systems vary widely from threaded pipe, to flared tubing, glued, expanded and specialty systems. It’s simply short-sighted to dismiss residential and other building applications as, “plumbing.” Many of these systems were on display at the International Builder’s Show (IBS) in Orlando, FL, January, 2017.
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A Word from Ron Waldon, President of SPED, 2016
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On Thursday, December 3rd, C&I’s Senior Plant Designer and Quality Coordinator, Ron Waldon, formally accepted his position as the new President of SPED—the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers.
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