apid development in the Indian construction industry required the plumbing sector to keep pace with modern plumbing technology. For this, existing Codes, Standards and practices required improvements from time to time to match international standards.

To incorporate and implement the latest technology and systems, to protect public health & hygiene and bring along uniformity of plumbing installations throughout India, IPA entered into an agreement with IAPMO (USA) to use, adopt, edit, and supplement the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC), keeping all basic principles of the original UPC intact to suit Indian laws, conditions and accepted good engineering practices.