Former IAPMO CEO Chaney Awarded ANSI Honor
Former International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials CEO GP Russ Chaney has been named the recipient of the American National Standards Institute’s Chairman’s Award, which recognizes “exemplary contributions to the voluntary consensus standardization community and efforts to increase the critical voice of consumers in standardization activities.”
Chaney and 25 other recipients of ANSI’s 2024 Leadership and Service Awards will be honored at the ANSI Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony, Nov. 13, in Washington, D.C., held in conjunction with World Standards Week.
Throughout his tenure at IAPMO, Chaney was a strong advocate for high-quality standards, product certification and testing and working with all stakeholders, including the local community, to ensure people everywhere benefited from IAPMO’s work. He passionately led IAPMO to work with numerous global entities to bring codes and standards, product certification, or product testing to places such as Vietnam, Kuwait, Jordan, Philippines, Indonesia, India, China and Australia, in addition to IAPMO’s work in North America. Chaney retired in 2020.
A 50-year veteran of the plumbing trades, prior to joining IAPMO Chaney served as director of technical services for the National Association of Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Contractors, which included secretariat responsibilities for the ANSI A40 Safety Requirements of Plumbing standard.
