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2005 News Archive
October 2005, the STUDOR Maxi-Filtra was installed to solve a sewer odour problem in a new cocktail lounge situated 300 metres above the ground in Sydney Australia’sCentrepoint Tower. The novelty of this installation is that “Bar 360°” spins! The plumbing was tricky, with the waste material for the Tower stored in tanks during the day, but then drained at the end of the day. Successful filtering of the sewer tanks during the operation of the bar was essential, with the solution being the installation of the STUDOR Maxi-Filtra - an active charcoal filter that filters sewer gasses while still allowing the free flow of air within the sanitary plumbing system. The STUDOR solution, using the Maxi-Filtra, solved the problem because no other product on the market came close to meeting the project’s venting requirement. For a cocktail with the best view in Sydney check out “Bar 360°” at Centrepoint Tower, Sydney!
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19 September 2005, Schilde/Belgium,
Sture Ericson (founder of STUDOR) celebrates his 70th birthday today.
Friends were invited to the beautiful Belgian residence of Doris and Sture
Ericson on Sunday afternoon for a celebratory event.
This started with a golf tournament on the  golf
course with cocktails presented at the end of the tournament on
the terrace. A wonderful dinner, desserts, beautiful music and, of course,
dancing rounded up the great party which ended in the early morning hours
of today, his birthday. Sture was touched by a wonderful presentation of
his wife Doris and was also very happy with the many presents he received.
Amongst them was a golf holiday with a visit the British Open 2006,
presented by Franz Arnold (CEO) on behalf of the STUDOR Group.
We all wish Sture a happy birthday and many returns in good health.
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14-16 September 2005, Brussels/Belgium,
this year's CIB W062 meeting took place in Brussels.
Over 75 academics researching in the water supply and drainage
area participated and listened to most interesting presentations
during two days. Day 3 was dedicated to some technical visits
and finally ended with a nice tour through the beautiful town
of Brugge by horse tram. The symposium concluded with a dinner
hosted by STUDOR at the Damme Golf & Country Club. In his dinner
speech Sture Ericson surprised everybody with
the announcement that a STUDOR FOUNDATION has been set up.
Sture and Doris Ericson (founders of STUDOR) want to encourage
young talents to carry out special research projects and
to present the results later at CIB events. The details and
rules of this foundation will now be worked out and details
will be announced later.
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August 2005,
the final in the series of national presentations was
given to the Master Plumbers Association of Western Australia. In
conjunction with the Plumbing Institute of Australia and Higgins
Agencies, the presentation covered the upcoming changes to AN/
NZS3500.2.2003. A test rig built to the specifications from Professor
John A. Swaffield’s Heriot-Watt study was used to demonstrate the
dynamics of air and water within a 40 metre waste system, as well as
demonstrating the STUDOR
P.A.P.A.’s operation.
Although not directly applicable to W.A. due to its adherence to the
1998 version of the national standards, the attending plumbers,
apprentices, hydraulic designers and local regulators all found the
information interesting.
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August 2005,
STUDOR's
esteemed Japanese distributor (VENN) exhibited
at the 37th General Tradeshow for Plumbing/Fittings Equipment held at
the Tokyo International Exhibition Center in Japan from 4 to 6 August.
VENN allocated a large area of their impressive booth to showcase the
whole range of STUDOR
products, generating a lot of interest. The
below photographs show: the VENN booth; the STUDOR
corner; and (from left to right) Mr. Steven White (Studor
Technical Manager), Mr. Kouichi Tanaami (Director, VENN),
Mr. Franz Arnold (CEO Studor Group), and one of VENN's lovely hostesses.
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August 2, 2005,
VENN (STUDOR’s Japanese distributor)
and
Steven White
(STUDOR’s Technical Manager)
hosted a technical presentation at
the Prince Hotel Conference Center in Sapporo, Japan.
The event was attended by 75 local engineers, contractors
and wholesalers. The presentation introduced the delegates
to the advantages of using
STUDOR AAVs, together with a
first-time introduction to positive transients and STUDOR’s
solution to this problem that exists in every drainage system
– the STUDOR P.A.P.A. After the presentation VENN invited
everyone to a wonderful lunch, which gave the opportunity
for everyone to ask questions on the presentation.
STUDOR
would like to thank VENN for organising this very successful event.
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August 2005,
talented Store Manager Grant Hibburd and his staff at
Tradelink’s Brookvale branch in Sydney, Australia built a car made
entirely from plumbing materials. STUDOR
donated one of their newly
launched Maxi-Filtras to the project – in a plumbing installation,
this active carbon filter is designed to eliminate bad odours produced
by the drainage system. We certainly wouldn’t recommend a road test in
the car, but we would recommend you visit
our product page for more
information on the Maxi-Filtra!
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July 2005,
STUDOR
House was honoured by a visit from representatives from
STUDOR
Korea - Studor's independent Korean distributor. Messrs KS Lew and
JS Lew met the whole team, were given a tour of the facility opened earlier
this year, and received a demonstration of
STUDOR
's in-house testing in the
on-site test laboratory. STUDOR
Korea is working hard to develop the Korean
market with the support of the Studor Team and has been realising an
increasing number of reference projects.
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June 2005,
the new Maxi-Filtra has been installed at Glenferrie Private Hospital
(formerly Swinburne University Hospital) in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia.
The hospital was experiencing problems with sewer gasses from existing nearby
open roof vents being sucked into the air-conditioning intakes of a ward and 2
operating theatres. Fortunately the hospital’s plumber was aware of the
Maxi-Filtra from a previous unrelated requirement and suggested the installation.
Several units were installed and the problem reduced dramatically.
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June 2005,
over 130 teachers from TAFE (Technical and Further education) Colleges
around Australia and New Zealand attended the
PSCIA (Plumbing Trade Teachers) Conference. STUDOR was one of only a
few industry manufacturers invited to present at the conference and
was represented by two of STUDOR Australia’s Area Managers – Marc Williams
(Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia) and David Griffiths
(New South Wales and ACT). Marc outlined STUDOR’s history and close
involvement with the TAFE colleges throughout Australia, highlighting
the importance of the TAFE colleges for the plumbing industry. He
provided a brief overview of the STUDOR products and the P.A.P.A. –
together comprising the complete STUDOR System. He also highlighted
the availability of purpose-written STUDOR training modules to help
teach apprentices correct application and installation of Air
Admittance Valves. Both Marc and David were greatly overwhelmed with
the response from the event and will be attending the 50th Anniversary
Conference next year.
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June 2005, STUDOR Maxi-Vents and Mini-Vents have been installed in the unique Victorian Government Marine and Freshwater Institute at Queenscliff, Victoria on the southern coast of Australia. Utilizing the thermal properties of the earth, the building is semi-buried under 300mm of topsoil and grasses. It is built on a former waste site and is the first building to receive a six-star green rating. Recycling its waste water through sand filters and 2 treatment ponds, it uses rainwater to irrigate the roof grasses. Upon completion, the building will be used to educate on the marine environment..
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June 2005, the new Risdon Prison Complex in Tasmania, Australia’s southernmost state, is underway. Recently expanded, this project is now worth $A100,000,000. It will include a 219 bed men’s prison, a 45 bed women’s prison and a 28 bed Secure Mental Health Unit (SMHU), as well as detention centres at various security levels. This project, expected to take over 4 years to construct, is the biggest currently underway in this state. The first stage, a major refurbish of the existing men’s prison, was recently supplied with 20 STUDOR Premi-Aire 100s to be used for venting the 100mm stacks connecting the toilet facilities through the floors of the building. The use of the STUDOR vents eliminates the penetrations through what will be a massive roof area.
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May 2005, Melbourne, Australia STUDOR
Australia hosted the third in the series of the
presentations of the Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland)
study of Plumbing System Dynamics in regards to ventilation. The
event, held next to the Australian Grand Prix track at Albert Park,
Melbourne, was presented by Marc Williams (STUDOR
Area Manager,
Victoria, S.A. and Tasmania). He also introduced the latest products
developed by STUDOR.
The event was well attended by some of the
leading hydraulic consultants and plumbing contractors in the state,
and was supported by the Master Plumbers and Mechanical Services
Association of Australia. The final presentations in the series will
take place in Tasmania and West Australia.
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April 29, 2005, STUDOR organized a very successful breakfast seminar at TAFE Gore Hill, Sydney, Australia.
STUDOR Australia Pty Ltd was represented with their full sales team:
David Griffiths (NSW); Marc Williams (VIC, TAS, SA); Peter Higgins (WA) and David Moody (QLD). Nelson Palmer (STUDOR New Zealand) and Michael Mekhitarian (Director, STUDOR Australia Pty Ltd), as well as Franz Arnold (CEO STUDOR Group) complemented the team.
Using a huge test rig simulating the wet and dry stack of a 10 storey building, built by a large number of plumbing students, the effects of positive pressure can be simulated. David Griffiths explained, in a very impressive and convincing way, how STUDOR’s P.A.P.A. (Positive Air Pressure Attenuator) can solve problems caused by positive pressure surges. He proved both in practice by using the test rig, as well as in theory by showing the study carried out by Heriot-Watt university in Edinburgh (Scotland), that the best functioning system in the world is the one of STUDOR, i.e. a combination of Air Admittance Valves and P.A.P.A.
More than 85 specialists (hydraulic engineers, architects, designers, plumbing contractors, etc.) joined STUDOR at 7am (!!) for this breakfast session. STUDOR also took the opportunity to introduce the new products recently launched at ISH. Both the Trap-Vent and the Maxi-Filtra generated great interest.
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May 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, STUDOR's
distributor for Portugal – Pinto & Cruz - exhibited at
Tektónica International Building and Construction Fair in Lisbon and presented the
STUDOR
products for the
first time, creating a lot of interest.
STUDOR
also used the opportunity to hold various seminars in Lisbon during the exhibition - presented by
Franz Arnold (CEO Studor Group) and Steve White (Technical Manager) - both for staff and reps of the
distributor, as well as for engineers, delegates of universities,
contractors, etc.
Pinto & Cruz has already realized a number of projects, most
prominently the Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (Coimbra Stadium).
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April 2005, STUDOR hosted the first in a series of presentations across Australia of the Heriot-Watt University ( Edinburgh, Scotland) study of Plumbing System Dynamics in regards to ventilation. Presented in Adelaide, South Australia, in conjunction with the local Plumbing Industry Association, the attendees included Hydraulic Engineers, Design Consultants and Commercial Plumbers as well as the local state regulators. In addition to the Heriot-Watt study, the evening covered topics from the recent World Plumbing Conference, briefed on the new STUDOR products released at ISH Frankfurt this year and the upcoming changes to the Australian/New Zealand standard AN/NZS3500.2.2003, which will incorporate the use of the STUDOR P.A.P.A. for the first time within a National Standard. Marc Williams (STUDOR Area Manager for South Australia and presenter of the evening) was happy with the turnout and questions raised from those present. The next presentation will be held in Sydney later in April, followed by other states throughout the year.
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March, 2005,
Chinese visitors Mrs Liu Wen Bing (Design Consultant for
the Beijing International Opera House) and Mr Yu Fei (Beijing Goldtide
Building Materials Co. Ltd. - Studor's distributor for Beijing &
Nanjin Area) visited Belgium en-route to ISH Frankfurt. Accompanied by
Michael Chang (Technical Coordinator, Studor Limited) and Kristof
Michielsen (factory representative), Mrs Liu received a demonstration
of the production of the Studor products. A visit to the testing
institute BBRI and a short presentation by Karel de Cuyper (see
photograph) rounded off the day.
From left to right: Kristof
Michielsen, Michael Chang, Mrs Liu
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March 16, 2005,
STUDOR
hosted a spectacular evening dinner event at Schlosshotel Kronberg (Germany) for their international distributors,
representatives their factories and other key partners of the business. Starting first with a cocktail
reception at the STUDOR booth
at the ISH exhibition, the guests were then transported to the spectacular castle Schlosshotel Kronberg
for a champagne reception followed by a 4-course dinner. The drainage research celebrity
Professor John Swaffield (Heriot Watt university Edinburgh, Scotland) – inventor of the
STUDOR P.A.P.A. –
gave a much applauded dinner speech. Franz Arnold (CEO Studor Group) surprised Sture and Doris
Ericson (founders of STUDOR) with a
special present in recognition of 30 years of their successful partnership. The evening was a great success
with guests from over 20 countries attending.
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March 15, 2005, Frankfurt,
STUDOR
did it again! Not only surprising the plumbing industry with a state-of-the
art new exhibition booth (see picture), but also with a couple of great new
products (for details see page
http://www.studor.net/news/main.asp).
The other picture shows the founders of
STUDOR -
Sture Ericson
testing the tightness of the new Trap-Vent, assisted by his wife Doris
Ericson.
The STUDOR
booth C69 in hall 4.0 is the meeting point of people
interested in smart drainage venting solutions
The exhibition is ongoing until March 19. More news to follow.
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March 2005,The World Plumbing Council's 7th Conference took place
in beautiful Auckland at the spectacular Skycity complex in the city of sails.
The local organizers did a fantastic job in presenting an interesting conference
for approx. 600 delegates, spiked with social events that demonstrated New Zealand's
best local entertainment, including traditional dances of the Maori.
STUDOR was in a very prominent position as sponsor and exhibitor at the trade show,
but it did not stop there. Various STUDOR presentations were given and STUDOR's special
guest, Prof. John Swaffield from Heriot-Watt University (Scotland), was involved giving
his view of "active transient control" and feedback of the studies by his university
concerning the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong. In both situations STUDOR products can improve
the situation in an impressive way and this was demonstrated to the delegates from all over
the world.
A cocktail reception at the STUDOR stand for special invited guests rounded up a great
event. The next WPC Conference will take place in September 2008 in Calgary, Canada.
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8 February 2005, STUDOR
House, in Hove, situated on the South Coast in England, was officially opened by Sture and Doris Ericson (founders of
STUDOR)
following extensive renovation carried out over a very short period
of 6 weeks. Dozens of people and many companies worked around the clock
to convert a disused industrial building into a combined state-of-the-art
office, warehouse and test laboratory – all with plenty of space
for expansion!
The inauguration celebration was attended by many key people who have
contributed over past years and more recently to STUDOR’s
progressive development and facilitating the refurbishment work. In
his formal speech, Franz Arnold (CEO STUDOR
Group) honoured the legacy of Sture and Doris’ work in laying
the foundation of an international business which started 30 years ago.
It was a very proud day for them to see their continued commitment to
the development and education of the industry reaching another important
milestone with this impressive own building.
STUDOR
House accommodates the European Sales Office and STUDOR’s
World-wide Technical Department – please download further information,
including the address, here.
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