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WELS meets eBay
The Australian Government has started the largest ever online compliance operation of its kind, teaming up with eBay to clean up the murky world of water ... -
Industry Innovation Award
Caroma’s famous & stylish luxury bathroom collection by renowned designer Marc Newson has another award to its credit, winning the Housing Industry Association-CSR Hunter Housing and ... -
Providing a Helping Hand
While the words ‘apprentice plumber’ may conjure up images of the mischievous young man who fixes your leaking tap and lives off meat pies from the ... -
Smart Irrigation Month
November declared Australians are the biggest water users per capita on the planet – a confronting statistic given we live on the driest populated continent on ... -
Tradies handover $77k for Mental Health
Laser Plumbing and Electrical Managing Director, Steve Keil presented beyondblue CEO, Georgie Harman with a cheque for $77,479.63, as a result of ongoing work by the ... -
WPC Heads to South Africa
The 11th World Plumbing Committee Conference is set to be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 14-16 September 2016. The Institute of Plumbing South Africa ... -
Feedback invited on ABCB research
The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) is currently researching a number of technical issues within the plumbing industry. The goal is to review the current state ... -
Parliament meets Plumbing
In late August, I was a guest of the Plumbing Products Industry Group (PPIG) at their special general meeting held at Parliament House, Canberra. This was ... -
Technical Note on PE-X Pipe Announced
CROSS LINKED POLYETHYLENE (PE-X) PIPE IN HOT WATER APPLICATIONS – GUIDANCE FOR DETERMINING CONFORMANCE TO AS/NZS 3500 The National Construction Code Volume 3 (Plumbing Code of ... -
Drug tests save money
According to SafeWork Laboratories (a national drug testing laboratory group), the Australian construction industry could save several hundred million dollars per year through compulsory workplace drug ...
