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October 25, 2021
Conquering the Mountain: How Viega Helped a Plumber Succeed in the Biggest Job of His Career
Two things stood between Mike Purkey and the biggest job of his plumbing career: climbing a mountain and getting the work done before the snow started to fly. The job was at Camp Oljato, a Scouts BSA facility located at 7,200 feet elevation in California’s western Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Creek Fire had burned through […]
October 15, 2021
Water main break + hurricane flooding = Viega to the rescue
There’s never a good time for a water-main break. But when it happens in the aftermath of a major hurricane, well, that can certainly throw a wrench into things. In September, just after Hurricane Ida hit the United States, staff at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay were scrambling. They were preparing for students to […]
March 10, 2021
Contractor nets huge time savings by pressing
Who wouldn’t want to save nearly 500 man-hours on a project? That’s what CSM Mechanical did on a job for the City of Dearborn in Michigan – thanks to Viega’s MegaPressG fittings. By reworking plans to make the natural gas piping distribution system 4” or smaller on the police and courts buildings, and by choosing […]
December 16, 2020
Groundbreaking research
The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Maui, Hawaii, uses the largest mirror of any solar telescope in the world. Thanks to its 13-foot-wide mirror, it collects seven times more sunlight than any other solar telescope, producing the clearest, highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun. Not surprisingly, a solar telescope of […]
August 20, 2020
School improvements made easy with MegaPress
Students at Central Elementary School in Longmont, Colorado, just might find it a little easier to concentrate, now that an outdated pump system has been replaced. The entire three-story school would vibrate when the aging boiler system (located in the basement) was running, which caused a lot of distraction. Everest Mechanical replaced the pump system, […]
June 15, 2020
More Time, Less Mess with Viega
When a crew in Maine needed to renovate the heating system in an elementary school, they were up against two challenges – time and cleanliness. Travis Wheeler and his workers from Mechanical Services in Augusta, Maine, took on the project to redo the system in Manchester Elementary School. They picked Viega MegaPress and ProPress products […]
March 1, 2019
THERAPEUTIC RECREATION PROGRAM CONSTRUCTS NEW BUILDING, USES PROPRESS
For more than 30 years, the Adaptive Sports Center in Crested Butte, Colorado, has been helping veterans and people with disabilities go on therapeutic recreation adventures. Now the group is finally getting the building – and the space – it deserves, so it can amp up its offerings and help even more people. The nonprofit […]
November 1, 2017
New Uses Approved for Wyoming Schools
To run specialty gas lines for welding-lab classrooms in both a high school and technical college in Wyoming, Valley Plumbing and Heating worked closely with Viega to obtain the approvals necessary. After consideration and research, Viega approved the uses requested, and the contractor was able to finish the job utilizing Viega ProPress for copper and […]
November 1, 2017
Project Comes In Under Budget With Time Saved
For a job with a maximum guaranteed price, crews working on a large expansion at Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado, were looking for the best ways to cut costs when things went over budget. Putting additional Viega products to use was an easy way to trim costs. Golden Triangle Construction, along with contractor Braconier […]