To meet all codes, project goals and requirements, plumbing engineers often need to create designs for commercial office buildings that are outside the box.
Gabriel Gomez shares lessons learned from five 21st-century plumbing challenges in “Going Against the Flow in Commercial Project Design” for Plumbing Engineer magazine. He examines a number of challenges – such as delivering effective hot water flow in high-rise buildings where contractors have provided only one hot water riser – and offers solutions.