At the ASA Annual Meeting during Network’08, Inge Calderon, executive director of the ASA Education Foundation, introduced the newest offering available from the ASA Education Foundation, a three-dimensional schematic model of a modern home called Fast Track that will become a valuable training tool for distributors and manufacturers alike.

By clicking on the various rooms in the house, students will be able to see the products they handle every day – examining how they’re installed, what they’re used for, and how they work with the other components of the various systems (see images). 

Included in Fast Track will be bathroom and kitchen fixtures, hot water heater (including an optional tankless version), boiler, sump system, and other commonly used residential products. With a nod to the difference in materials customarily used in supply and DWV systems around the country, this schematic will incorporate a multitude of options, offering information about the appropriate fittings and cutting and joining methods for each. Likewise, information on private water well supply and septic systems will be presented as options to the municipal water main supply and sewers.

Additional modules of Fast Track are on the drawing board, and will incorporate commercial and industrial applications.  The residential module is expected to debut in January, 2009. For more information about Fast Track or other programs offered by the ASA Education Foundation, visit www.asa.net or call 312-464-0090.