BAY AREA UPDATE – BAAQMD Announces New Hearing Date for Charbroiler Emission Regulations!
Breaking News! The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has just announced a new hearing date of May 16, 2007. Any comments should be submitted by May 7th. The link at this end of the Full Story has been amended to access the updated materials. Note that the Full Story was written prior to this new public hearing announcement and comments. Click here for details.

ULC CANADA CODES – Industry Newsletter Updates CKV Codes of Interest!
Our friends and sponsors at Halton Foodservice have provided an update to several ULC Canada Standards that apply to CKV. These will be of interest to those operating, designing or specifying commercial or institutional kitchen ventilation in Canada as well as regulatory officials. Click here for a link to the current @LACARTE newsletter. Then click on Back Issues and select @lacarte03/2007.

ICC – California Votes to Adopt International Building & Fire Codes!
California has voted to adopt both the ICC International Building Code and the International Fire Code as the basis for the state’s new codes. Both are scheduled to take effect in January 2008. Work will begin to adopt the International Residential Code during the summer of 2007. Building officials comprising both building and fire, architects, engineers, contractors, labor and the public make up the California Building Standards Commission.

FIRE CODES – Rhode Island After the Deadly Night Club Fire 4 Years Ago!
Foodservice Equipment Magazine reports that Rhode Island is reconsidering the tough fire codes enacted after the deadly nightclub fire in 2003. Discussions are on going after operators are testifying that the high cost of adding sprinklers is killing their business. Click here.

HOODLESS KITCHEN – Heard the One About the Headless Horseman?
Maybe there never really was a headless horseman, but the US now has its first ventilated ceiling installation in a new Westin Hotel in Minneapolis, MN. Author Mike Mitchelson wrote in Foodservice News in February that ventilated ceiling technology has arrived in the US. Click here for a link and then choose the top article under Publications. Read our original article about North America’s first ventilated ceiling at Humber College in Toronto, CA. Click here for our Humber College article.

UV – Fact Update and More Information About Ultraviolet Hoods!
In our previous UP YOUR STACK Newsletter we wrote an update about UV or ultraviolet hood technology. Proving that once again, two heads are better than one, Craig West who we believe is the leading authority in Canada on ultraviolet CKV wrote to us and improved our store of knowledge. Click here for the points he made.

EDUCATION – Don Fisher Schedules CKV Classes for 2007 in California!
Don Fisher of Fisher-Nickel has scheduled CKV training classes for the year 2007 in California. The first is in San Ramon in June, the second in San Diego in October and the third in Downey in mid-November. All are half day classes beginning at 9 AM to Noon. Click here for the class listing on UP YOUR STACK under the Education tab. Click here for a link to the FSTC web site, and then click on Education/Seminars. Be sure to look at the two Design Guides while visiting FSTC.

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