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Article: 2001 -- A Code Odyssey.
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- Plumbing & Mechanical
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 BNP Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Get involved with code adoption or face arbitrary restrictions.
The plumbing code situation in this country was supposed to get better in the new millennium. The question many of you have been asking me is, "What happened?"
In response, all I can say is that last year must have been an election year. Politics seems to have taken over when technical knowledge should have. Everyone in the code business has learned how to spin his story. I have never seen so much rhetoric and trash written by self-proclaimed experts.
What is driving this code odyssey is money and egos.
Plumbing contractors have, by and large, taken a hands-off approach to ...