Illinois Plumbing Inspectors Association (IPIA)

09/09/2026

Are you an Illinois Licensed Plumber or Certified Inspector in need of CEU credit? Register now for our September 25th online class. Go to ilphcc.com by Sept 11th to register.

Below is our current schedule of continuing education classes for Illinois licensed plumbers. Please visit the website often for the latest information and to register for a class. As class registrations are open, they will be posted here and on our page. Registration links will be live at....

08/23/2026

Please make sense of this. Schools are required by law to provide single and multi user restrooms for students. So children need to share a toilet room with others of the opposite s*x, but not woman on a construction site in a single user portal potty? Can you say hypocrite?
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Illinois' new "potty law" was signed by Governor Pritzker this week! 

The Democrat “Restroom Facility Act (SB3465) will require companies to provide separate' bathroom facilities at all Illinois construction sites.

The new requirement: construction sites with 10 or more workers to have separate, lockable restrooms for women and individuals who menstruate. It also requires construction companies supply free menstrual products and reasonable lactation accommodations.

Steep fines will be levied on employers who fail to do so.

Irony: JB Pritzker, the man who ripped out toilets from his own buildings to save on property taxes, is the person who signed this legislation into law. 🚽

Democrats supported the the bill and Republicans opposed it.
The concern among business owners is the added expense of providing separate facilities at construction sites.

06/29/2026

https://www.workingpressuremag.com/beyond-the-water-management-plan/

For years, senior living operators facing a Legionella-related regulatory inquiry or legal action could point to one foundational defense: we had a water management program in place. That defense is eroding.

06/29/2026

https://www.workingpressuremag.com/legionellosis-outbreaks-what-have-we-learned/

There have been innumerable conversations, white papers, studies and conferences held about how to better prepare and respond to legionellosis outbreaks in the years since these outbreaks tore through the communities that endured them. So, what have we learned?

06/29/2026

06/29/2026

A new issue of Working Pressure is out now! This is the Water Quality & Efficiency Issue, which includes articles about plumbed emergency equipment, bottle filling stations, point-of-use water filtration, lessons learned from legionella outbreaks, and more.

https://www.workingpressuremag.com/current/

06/18/2026

Gas heaters and furnaces are built for speed and comfort.

06/18/2026

IAPMO Seeks UPC Task Group Members

Ontario, Calif. (June 15, 2026) — The Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC®) Technical Committee is seeking special subject experts to participate in the following task group:

Building Drain Cured-In-Place: The scope of this task group is to is to research and develop recommendations addressing building drain cured-in-place technologies, as shown in Item No. 156 Public Comment 02 of the 2025 UPC Report on Comments (ROC).

Task group members will participate via conference call or web meeting, share their perspectives on the code, and help draft recommendations for action by the UPC Technical Committee. Applicants are not required to be members of the technical committee. Those interested in participating in the UPC task group may apply at the following URL: https://forms.iapmo.org/iapmo/committee/app_task_group.aspx.

The deadline to apply is July 15.

For questions about the UPC task group, contact Enrique Gonzalez by phone at (909) 230-5535 or by email at [email protected].

06/16/2026

PHCC is encouraged by today's U.S. Supreme Court action vacating and remanding the D.C. Circuit's decision regarding DOE energy conservation standards affecting certain gas-fired appliances. HARDI and PHCC jointly filed the Amicus Brief which urged the Supreme Court to grant the petition.

PHCC has long maintained that mandating condensing-only products will present financial burdens for some consumers and is pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court agrees that the decision of the D.C. Circuit was flawed in its process.

The full decision can be viewed here:https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/060826zor_21p3.pdf

05/09/2026

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