The Plumbing Manufacturers Institute's technical director, David Viola, will serve as a member of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association's National Standard Plumbing Code Committee for a term that continues through the PHCC 2003 annual meeting Sept. 24 to Oct. 4 in Las Vegas.

Also, Barbara Higgens, PMI's executive director, was elected to the board of the Council of Manufacturing Associations, which comprises more than 200 manufacturing trade associations.