Plumbing Engineering

Hey, Brian, we live in a world with an uncertain economy.

And, you know, as far as plumbing, you know, supply chain issues, possibly you got AI, you got data center talk, you got code updates.

What are you hearing from your constituents as far as like challenges that need to be addressed in your organization?

You know, it's a, it's an endless list of challenges.

I know, but are there, are there ones that ring, ring louder than others?

You know, when you look at the challenges today, technology just continues to advance so fast.

But we have a, I mean, just looking at codes, let's look at code cycles first.

When you think about codes, you know, I'm not a proponent of designing to a code.

You know, you design to the need and you verify the code.

That's the way I look at things.

You have a lot of people in our world that they want to design to a code.

you know, or a standard.

And the reality is if you look across the U.S., just looking at the U.S., I mean, we're a global organization, but when you look across the U.S., whether you're looking at the ICC codes or you're looking at the IAPMO codes, you know, there's differences between the two.

We don't have a single code.

Then you've got people like Chicago or Massachusetts who do something even different.

But when you look at these codes and standards, you can find people on the 2012 code.

And then some people are on the 14.

Some people are on the 18.

And then they're on the 22.

And then you got people, hey, we're on the 26s.

We're good.

So there's so many discrepancies that exist in some of those areas.

And that's something that I don't see being solved anytime soon.

But with technology and how we're getting faster with these building information management systems where you're designing and you're linking things to real products and 3D modeling and those type of things, I mean, the possibilities are endless.

But you also have to have a little hesitation when you look at things because, I mean, think about the building in New York that's leaning to the side, right? where they take a building that's been sitting there for decades and there's never been any issues, and now you have an architect and a firm that's gone through and they've put in new beams and changed, they've added things, and it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to, right? Things, they buckled, there were some issues.

Hey, Brian, we live in a world with an uncertain economy.

And, you know, as far as plumbing, you know, supply chain issues, possibly you got AI, you got data center talk, you got code updates.

What are you hearing from your constituents as far as like challenges that need to be addressed in your organization?

You know, it's a, it's an endless list of challenges.

I know, but are there, are there ones that ring, ring louder than others?

You know, when you look at the challenges today, technology just continues to advance so fast.

But we have a, I mean, just looking at codes, let's look at code cycles first.

When you think about codes, you know, I'm not a proponent of designing to a code.

You know, you design to the need and you verify the code.

That's the way I look at things.

You have a lot of people in our world that they want to design to a code.

you know, or a standard.

And the reality is if you look across the U.S., just looking at the U.S., I mean, we're a global organization, but when you look across the U.S., whether you're looking at the ICC codes or you're looking at the IAPMO codes, you know, there's differences between the two.

We don't have a single code.

Then you've got people like Chicago or Massachusetts who do something even different.

But when you look at these codes and standards, you can find people on the 2012 code.

And then some people are on the 14.

Some people are on the 18.

And then they're on the 22.

And then you got people, hey, we're on the 26s.

We're good.

So there's so many discrepancies that exist in some of those areas.

And that's something that I don't see being solved anytime soon.

But with technology and how we're getting faster with these building information management systems where you're designing and you're linking things to real products and 3D modeling and those type of things, I mean, the possibilities are endless.

But you also have to have a little hesitation when you look at things because, I mean, think about the building in New York that's leaning to the side, right? where they take a building that's been sitting there for decades and there's never been any issues, and now you have an architect and a firm that's gone through and they've put in new beams and changed, they've added things, and it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to, right? Things, they buckled, there were some issues.