History
The PHCC of North Dakota (NDAPHMC) was established to ensure the health and welfare of the citizens of North Dakota through the Plumbing and Heating industries and has been in existence since early in 1919. Our first President, Leif Henning from Fargo was selected in the spring of 1919. The organization has survived through boom and bust (including the Great Depression) for approximately 100 years. A convention is held annually to elect officers and a board of directors to ensure the stability of the ongoing organization. With dedicated members and associates, this organization should have no problem flourishing for the next hundred years and beyond.
Objectives and Purposes
- The practical application of scientific knowledge to the preservation of public health as applied to water supply, plumbing, sanitation and related endeavors.
- The encouragement of sanitary laws and the better enforcement thereof.
- The improvement of plumbing systems and the applied elements thereof; plumbing and related material, fixtures and appliances; for the improvement of heating and cooling equipment, accessories and related work.
- The education of members of the craft in sanitation and the principles of plumbing, heating and cooling.
- The encouragement of education of the members of the craft in economical and reasonably profitable carrying on of the trade in plumbing-heating-cooling.
- The establishment of harmonious relations between members of the craft and their employees, architects and mechanical engineers.
- The establishment, furtherance and improvement of an apprenticeship system.
- The education of apprentices and other employees.
- The promotion of technical studies, education, public relations, research, and other activities of industrial development.
