Download a copy of the program brochure.

Download a copy of the Application Form.

PARTNERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS:
Engineering Consultants and Pump Users can now share a relationship with the Hydraulic Institute as a Standards Partner. A valuable package of HI products and services offered to “Standards Partners” far exceeds the investment required and positions your company as a pioneer in supporting and creating pump standards. Benefits of becoming a Standards Partner include:

• Standards Development Participation
• Networking, Education and Professional Development
• Complimentary HI Standards on CD-ROM or by Subscription
• Copies of HI Guidebooks: Pump Life Cycle Costs; Variable Speed Pumping; Mechanical Seals for Pumps; and Optimizing Pumping Systems
• Seats to PumpLearning Online Courses: Rotodynamic (Centrifugal) Pumps and Positive Displacement Pumps
• Consultant’s Directory and HI Web Listings

Learn more about the benefits of becoming an HI Standards Partner.

Learn more about the participation opportunities for an HI Standards Partner.

ELIGIBILITY:
Corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships and government agencies with offices in North America that are engineering firms, or provide engineering services, or are end-users of pumps may participate as a "Hydraulic Institute Standards Partner." To be eligible the organization or individual must meet either of the following two criteria:

1. Must provide pump and pumping system engineering, process or facility design, procurement, project management, construction services, hydraulic or mechanical modeling, analytical methods, or laboratory or field-testing to a facility owner, government, or vendor.
2. Must be an end-user of pumps.

REQUIREMENTS:
Upon application and payment of appropriate fees, applicants to become a “Hydraulic Institute Standards Partner” must:

1. Attest that they meet the intent of Hydraulic Institute Standards in the design, specification, installation, and maintenance and/or testing of pumps and pumping systems.
2. If the corporation, partnerships, sole proprietorships or government agency maintains a Web site, the applicant must agree upon acceptance of their application to post the Hydraulic Institute Standards Partner logo on the home page, corporate profile page, or association links page. The logo must be hot-linked to the HI Web site, www.pumps.org. Any descriptive copy which the Partner chooses to post to accompany the logo must be supplied by HI. Any modifications to copy supplied by HI must be approved by HI.

EXCLUSIONS:
Corporations which are eligible to join the Hydraulic Institute as Pump or Supplier OEMs, Systems Integrators and Software Companies (Associate Members) are not eligible to become Hydraulic Institute Standards Partners.

All applicants will be initially reviewed by staff to ensure compliance with the eligibility criteria. Any challenge by an applicant who is denied as an HI Standards Partner may appeal to the Hydraulic Institute Board of Directors. Partnership is on a corporate basis and is renewable annually. Use of the Standards Partner logo is restricted to approved entities who, by virtue of paying their annual fee, entitle them to this privilege.

For questions about the HI Standards Partner program contact StandardsPartner@pumps.org.