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(gpf) requirements ■ Contents Residential Construction Issue Departments Hot Seat .........................................5 Green means business Industry News ..............................6 Airport air quality People & Places ...........................47 ASHRAE’s new headquarters Shop Management .....................51 Crystal ball gazing Coming Events ............................54 2021 Canadian Hydronics Conference Products & Technologies Hot Water Heating ......................15 Green Building ............................27 HVAC ...........................................32 PTAC Systems One box contains all your heating/cooling needs Refrigeration ..............................36 Tools & Instruments ...................40 Plumbing .....................................41 Features Plumbing Products .....................49 Freeze Protection 15 Proper set up to battle cold climates Cover: For potable water systems identifying the differences in plastic piping materials is key. Please see our article on 20. Material Knowledge 20 Winning the Bid 32 Photo: Courtesy RWC Exploring plastic pipe options Asking the right questions www.plumbingandhvac.ca November/December 2020 – Plumbing & HVAC 3 THE CHOICE IS SIMPLE ENDLESS HEAT & HOT WATER Only 5 Moving Parts 7KHQHZ683(5)/2:KLJKHIILFLHQF\ FRQGHQVLQJQDWXUDOJDVLQVWDQWDQHRXVZDWHU KHDWHUV FRPELşV(XURSHDQGHVLJQPHHWV &DQDGLDQVHUYLFHDELOLW\ Discover more at ibcboiler.com ■ Hot Seat November/December 2020 Volume 30, Number 8 ISSN 1919-0395 Publisher Mark Vreugdenhil (289) 638-2133 ext.1 Cell: (416) 996-1031 [email protected] Editor John Tenpenny (289) 638-2133 ext.2 [email protected] Editor Leah Den Hartogh (289) 638-2133 ext. 4 Cell: (289) 830-1217 [email protected] Contributing Writers Roy Collver, Ron Coleman, Green means business Mark P. Evans, Bill Hooper, Michael McCartney, Glenn Mellors COVID-19 has dominated the headlines since health and safety of indoor air environments Bruce Nagy, Greg Scrivener emerging last spring—and rightfully so—but in buildings, while reducing energy use and National Sales Manager with vaccines on the horizon our industry can carbon emissions. Mark Tomlin start to look forward to returning to business This is key, as according to CaGBC, to date, (289) 638-2133 ext.3 as close to usual in 2021. We can also return green retrofits yield only one in five jobs in Cell: (289) 927-6393 [email protected] to topics that were gaining traction before green building construction and trades. the pandemic hit, such as green building and “To reach our climate targets, Canada must Design and Production Tim Norton/Janet Popadiuk the impact it could have on the mechanical not only address new buildings but also the [email protected] industry, as Canada continues to push towards large number of inefficient buildings and Circulation Manager further reducing greenhouse gas emissions. homes,” says CaGBC’s president and CEO Dorothy Lai Coupled with an increased interest in Thomas Mueller. “Right now, between 70 and retrofitting buildings, green initiatives are 80 per cent of these buildings will still be in All articles and photos by Plumbing & HVAC staff unless noted. sure to improve the business outlook as well use by 2050. Retrofits must be a significant PLUMBING & HVAC Magazine is published eight times annually by as perhaps stimulate job growth. priority if we are to decarbonize by 2050.” Marked Business Media Inc. and is written for individuals who purchase/ A recent report from the Canada Green Not to be forgotten is the skills gap when it specify/approve the selection of plumbing, piping, hot water heating, fire protection, warm air heating, air conditioning, ventilation, refrigera- Building Council (CaGBC) put the potential comes to green building construction. What tion, controls and related systems and products throughout Canada. of a green recovery that prioritizes green will be required are new types of training, Marked Business Media Inc. building at 1.5 million jobs and $150 billion incentives and construction processes that 167 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada L1G 4S8 Tel: (289) 638-2133 in GDP by 2030, while cutting greenhouse will help the trades support the construction Postmaster: Send all address changes and circulation inquiries to: gas emissions (GHG) by 53 megatonnes and mass retrofit of buildings that lower Plumbing & HVAC Magazine, 167 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, compared with 2018 levels. greenhouse gas emissions. Canada L1G 4S8. Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No. 43029513. Postage paid at Toronto, ON. The report also found in 2018 the green As this is our last issue of 2020, everyone Annual Subscription Canada: $40.00 plus applicable taxes, single copy $5.00 plus applicable taxes. Annual Subscription United States: $60.00 building industry added 164,260 jobs, which here at Plumbing & HVAC want to extend our U.S. Annual Subscription foreign: $90.00 U.S. is 55 per cent greater than in 2014. best wishes to our readers and their families Copyright 2020. The contents of this magazine may not be reproduced in Industry associations have told both federal for the holiday season. Stay safe and talk to any manner without the prior written permission of the Publisher. and provincial levels of government that they A member of: you next year. • Canadian Institute of Plumbing & Heating should invest in retrofit programs, which • Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada • Ontario Plumbing Inspectors Association would have the effect of reducing energy • American Society of Heating Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers costs, while stimulating economic investment • Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada and job growth. These programs could be • Refrigeration Service Engineers Society of Canada leveraged to address concerns about the Facebook: LinkedIn: Twitter: Instagram: @PlumbingandHVAC Plumbing + HVAC Magazine @Plumbing_HVAC_ plumbing_hvac_ ■ Industry News Danny Juricic, manager, HVAC & People Moving Devices, Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Photo: Greater Toronto Airports Authority Juricic says the next phase of the project will see more units in the terminals and rollout to Pearson’s other approximately 30 occupied buildings. He also notes that part of the request for proposal to vendors Cleaner included having a third-party industrial hygienist verify the efficacy of the UV-C units, testing the air quality prior Skies to and after operations have commenced. In addition to the UV-C light smoothly to provide comfort and passenger arrays, Pearson also increased filtration in its Pearson airport is using flow in the terminals. HVAC systems in passenger-facing buildings, UV-C light to disinfect the “In the new world of COVID-19, my job such as the terminals, and employee-facing focuses on finding and implementing new buildings. This is in addition to providing air breathed by passengers technologies to stop/reduce the spread of the more fresh air rather than re-circulating it, virus and make the air and surfaces safer and says Juricic. By John Tenpenny cleaner for passengers and employees. “All filters are now MERV-13 (minimum Historically, UV-C light technology has efficiency reporting value), meaning they can Wherever people gather these days, concerns been predominantly used in the healthcare capture more minute particles.” about the spread of COVID-19 are top of setting given that UV-C light is capable As for people moving devices, the airport mind. And while travel has been severely of killing virtually any microbe, including has installed UV lights on specific units in curtailed, places like Toronto Pearson Airport viruses. The UV-C light arrays installed order to help eliminate any virus particles are doing their best to ensure those who do at Pearson system help to keep the air which could potentially live on the handrails. have to fly do so in a safe environment. handling unit clean, thereby preventing They have also installed CleanSlate UV To that end, Pearson recently installed contamination