Steve Nastruz, Director, North
Steven Nastruz is a Senior Plumbing Inspector for Public Health of Seattle and King County, Wash., with 25 years experience in plumbing design, repair and installation on residential, commercial and industrial applications. He has been a certified plumbing inspector since 1996 and was promoted to Senior Inspector in 2003.
Nastruz grew up in Iowa and moved to San Diego, Calif., in his early 20s.
Soon after he had the opportunity to go through a plumbing apprenticeship in Los Angeles, so he relocated and joined UA Local 78. He graduated in 1987 and a few years later he moved to Seattle, transferring to UA Local 32.
Immediately after becoming an inspector in 1996, he joined IAPMO, and the Northwest Washington Chapter, serving as treasurer, chairman, and currently as vice-chairman.
Nastruz serves on three IAPMO committees: the Plumbing Code Workshop Committee since 1998; Answer and Analysis Committee since 2006; and the Education Committee since 2008.
Nastruz has also spent the last eight years teaching plumbing code, code interpretation and plumbing system design for UA apprentices and journeymen.
Last summer he graduated from the UA
¹s Instructor Training Program in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Nastruz and his wife, Rhoda, have been married 15 years and their son, Thomas, 14, just started high school. Nastruz enjoys participating in Thomas
¹ activities whenever possible, as well as fishing and crabbing on the Puget Sound. He¹s also an avid baseball fan and cheers for the Chicago White Sox, his childhood team.
"I just look forward to working with IAPMO and using any knowledge and experience I have to maintain the motto that IAPMO stands by; protect the health and safety of the nation, using the Uniform Codes" Nastruz says. "On the local front, I want to work with the current Northwest Washington Chapter chair to build membership and participation at the meetings."