Category: Plumbing

New Plumbing Podcast Focuses on California Water Efficiency Standards

In the latest PCA Podcast, Armand Kilijian from O’Brien Mechanical in San Francisco joined Sean McGuire to talk about water efficiency challenges that contractors face in California. The conversation explored the city’s infrastructure inefficiencies, the requirements of retention cisterns, purple pipe and onsite water treatment and reuse systems.

While California remains on the leading edge of water conservation domestically, its building codes have a tendency of being beta tests for the rest of the country.

MCAA Partners with JBKnowledge on Latest Construction Technology Report

JBKnowledge, MCAA’s technology research partner, just released its fifth annual report on construction technology practices. This year’s report saw a record number of responses from respondents across the construction industry, with over 700 MCAA members participating.

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2016-ct-report-copy-1 The report includes surveys on BIM strategies, mobile integration, cloud security and ways that contractors are implementing technology practices within their company. In each section, the popularity of different software types are reported and insight into spending and management of technology initiatives are provided. As the report’s sponsor, MCAA has an added benefit of segmenting out responses from mechanical, plumbing and service contractors to add further definition on later research studies.

The report’s primary author, James Benham, will be one of the presenters in San Diego for MCAA 2017. He will be joined by two other JBKnowledge experts who are presenting on ways that contractors are leveraging technology in the workplace.

For more information on JBKnowledge or to download previous versions of their reports:

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Did You Miss Our Webinar on BIM to Field Software?

In August, MCAA released its third installment of the Construction Technology Research Series with a report on BIM to Field Software. The research, provided by our technology partners at JB Knowledge, evaluated over 24 different types of software that leverage the data from the BIM model and use it in other parts of your operations like the field or in the fabrication shop.

On Tuesday, August 23, the lead researcher on the project, Josh Bone, joined Sean McGuire, MCAA’s Director of Construction Technology for a companion webinar that provided more explanation and detail into the project. If you missed it, the webinar can be viewed by clicking the image below.

As more installments of the Construction Technology Research Series are released, additional companion webinars will be developed. Upcoming reports will focus on Mechanical Service Software, Robotic Total Stations and Safety Hardware and Software.

Plumbing Podcast #6 Focuses on BIM

PCA Chairman and MCAA Board of Directors member Armand Kilijian joined the Plumbing Podcast to discuss the importance of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to plumbing contractors.

The podcast covers plumbing contractors’ increasing use of BIM on job sites, strategies for starting and optimizing a BIM department within a company and how to leverage the data from the BIM model through fabrication, project coordination and total stations.

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BuiltWorlds Recaps Highlights of MCAA Construction Technology Conference

Disruptive technology, robotics, drones, 3D printing, cloud computing and storage, BIM and much more were the hot topics at the MCAA Construction Technology Conference in June in Indianapolis. BuiltWorlds, MCAA’s technology partner that presented the exhibit of new construction devices and products at the conference, captured all the speakers and their presentations in a detailed article that not only described the technologies but also how contractors are using them in operations, such as fabrication shops, and projects to improve productivity, efficiency and profits. Read the article.

PCA Plumbing Podcast Tackles Service Truck Inventory

If keeping your plumbing service trucks stocked with the right equipment for the right jobs has proven to be more challenging than it should, then check out this week’s Plumbing Pod podcast.

Ed Gormley of Gormley Plumbing & Heating (McMinnville, OR) shares tips for inventory management, standardized tools, and software that can be used to help service calls run more smoothly. Visit PCA’s homepage to download this and other podcasts.

Plumbing Podcast

Podcast Reprises Water Crisis Webinar

If you missed Courtney France’s webinar on April 14 about how our industry is responding to the water crisis, check out the Plumbing Contractors of America’s (PCA) latest podcast, Water Crisis: Pushing the Limits of Building Water Conservation.

France of France Sustainable Solutions and Sean McGuire of MCAA discuss the PCA webinar she led that highlights innovative case studies and how the plumbing contractors who were involved with those projects made an impact on this problem. The link below will take you to the podcast.

PCA Podcast

Next Green Building Webinar Takes on Water Conservation for Buildings

If the building your company is helping construct may face a water crisis, plan to participate in the next Green Webinar—Water Crisis: Pushing the Limits of Building Water Conservation on April 14, 1:00 p.m.

Whether water resources are unreliable, contaminated, too expensive, or a readily available luxury, our buildings will continue to face increased demand for water conservation while serving increased occupant loads. During this webinar, Courtney France of France Sustainable Solutions will explain how green buildings are responding and performing under this challenge. You will come away with a better understanding about some of the most progressive sustainable water strategies and the role they play in our built environment. You will also learn how those strategies will impact contractors. This webinar is free as a benefit of MCAA and MSCA membership.

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