Uniform Plumbing Code (IAPMO/ANSI UPC 1-2021)
If extraterrestrials landed on Earth, across homes, they would find furniture designed for similar purposes, lights in typical placements, an affinity for screens, and, of […]
AuthorBrad Kelechava
ANSI/ASHRAE 103-2022: AFUE Testing of Residential Furnaces & Boilers
Most homes in the United States are heated with either furnaces, systems that heat air and distribute it throughout the house, or boilers, appliances with […]
Ultraviolet (UV) Water Treatment Systems, NSF/ANSI 55-2021
Of the many objectives undertaken at federal, state, and local levels, guaranteeing access to safe, clean water is an utmost necessity. However, many are faced […]
NSF/ANSI 53-2021: Drinking Water Treatment Units, Health Effects
Water is important. It makes up 60% of your body and 71% of your planet’s surface. In fact, in the over-dozen times we’ve focused on […]
ASTM D4169-22: Testing Shipping Containers
ASTM D4169-22: Standard Practice for Performance Testing of Shipping Containers and Systems provides a uniform basis of evaluating the ability of shipping units to withstand […]
Fitness-For-Service: API 579/ASME FFS-1-2021
What is Fitness-For-Service? Standards for pressurized equipment, such as those developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Society of Mechanical […]
ASME A17.3-2020: Safety Code for Existing Elevators and Escalators
ASME A17.3-2020: Safety Code for Existing Elevators and Escalators is the latest edition of the existing elevators code. Safety of Existing Elevators Fear is a […]
Preventing Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
What is Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)? When we walk across a carpeted floor and touch a doorknob, we feel a startling shock. This is one of […]
ANSI/ESD S1.1-2021: Standard for Wrist Straps
The power of lightning is in your hands. Not the hands of Thor or Zeus or whatever lightning-casting being—but yours! The average human body, at […]
ASTM D4840: Sample Chain-of-Custody Procedures Standard
What is Sample Chain-of-Custody? During criminal investigations, laboratory testing often is necessary to attain data from evidence. Proper sample chain-of-custody procedures instill integrity and nurture […]