Plumbing Systems & Design (PS&D) is the only magazine dedicated to the advancement of the science of plumbing engineering and design. Since its inception, PS&D has been published with one singular objective: to serve as the premier editorial platform dedicated to the advancement of the science of plumbing engineering and design.
PS&D is published 10 times annually by the American Society of Plumbing Engineers, the international organization for highly trained and educated specialists, specifically skilled in the design, specification, construction, inspection, and manufacture of plumbing systems.
Each issues contains several feature articles on timely topics of interest to plumbing engineers, as well as our regular technical columns, including:
- Lessons Learned: An insider's perspective on technical plumbing design and rules of thumb, focusing on unusual components of plumbing design and bizarre or eccentric considerations affecting plumbing design and on-site construction
- Code Update: Commentary on proposed code changes and advice for dealing with code discrepancies
- Hydronics for Plumbing Engineers: Practical advice and examples for engineering and designing hydronic systems
- The Green Column: How new technologies being researched and developed will affect plumbing engineers and designers in the future
- Focus on Fire Protection: Helpful guidance for fire protection engineering and design issues
- Designer’s Notebook: Unique or peculiar plumbing engineering and design situations and solutions
- Plumbing Design by the Numbers: Checklists covering and addressing each specific design element in a plumbing engineering and design project
- The Legal Pipeline: To simplify liability issues for plumbing contractors, this column covers general-interest legal topics and attempts to explain them through the use of everyday examples and hypothetical cases
In addition, each issue features a continuing education section, a unique and valuable feature that helps readers earn continuing education units (CEUs) valid for recertification and license renewals. Each Continuing Education feature points readers to a technical article taken from the wide variety of material published by ASPE, and offers an examination, which readers must successfully complete to earn the CEUs.