Hilti showcased new products during its 2019 Innovation Day, held June 12-14 at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas. Photo credit by Nicole Krawcke/Plumbing & Mechanical

June 14, 2018

April 25, 2019 was National Hug A Plumber Day. A big thanks from our team to all the plumbers out there. Here are some tweets that went out. Check out our Twitter page for more tweets.

April 26, 2019

Readers shared how they celebrated World Plumbing Day on social media using #WorldPlumbingDay. Check them out!

March 14, 2019

Day 2 of this year’s KBIS-IBS show featured new innovations and a little bit of history.

February 21, 2019

Check out the latest from the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show in Las Vegas.

March 1, 2019

More than 750 people attended MSCA’s 2018 Soar conference on October 21—24, in Huntington Beach, California. Photos by Nadia Askar/RJ 2.0

December 4, 2018

Nexstar Network’s Super Meeting took place in Marco Island, Florida in October. The event included sponsored breakout sessions, a strategic partner trade show and featured guest speakers: John Maxwell, Judaline Cassidy and John Taffer. Photos by Nadia Askar/RJ 2.0

December 4, 2018

Hilti's Innovation Day 2018 took place at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas. Photos by Nadia Askar/RJ 2.0

October 31, 2018

One of the highlights of PHCC’s annual CONNECT conference is the Plumbing Apprentice Contest, which takes place right in the show space, where attendees can watch as it progresses. During the competition, 20 plumbing apprentices rough-in and build — from scratch — a water closet and lavatory. The prize for the best installation? Thousands of dollars’ worth of tools and some serious bragging rights.

Jim Steinle, owner of Atomic Plumbing and Drain Cleaning in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and chair of PHCC’s Plumbing Apprentice Contest, says the contest helps bring attention to the trades as a potential career path for young people. Apprentices are judged on a number of things by a pool of 10-12 judges over two days. On the final day, they receive feedback.

“They’re typically judged on craftsmanship, how they clean and cut the pipe, whether they are taking all seven steps to do the copper, whether they’re reaming the PVC pipe, whether they’re putting cleaner on it before they glue it together, and so on,” Steinle says. “The judges spend a lot of time watching them actually work.”

Click here to read more about the contest and PHCC CONNECT 2018.

October 23, 2018

Managing Editor Nadia Askar visits Attendorn, Germany to attend Aquatherm’s first BIGGEXCHANGE International Symposium and Networking Event (Sept. 11-13, 2018).

All photo credits are Nadia Askar/RJ 2.0

October 8, 2018