Campbell Awarded the 2025 ASME B31 Forever Medal

During 2025 B31 Code Week B31 & Nonmetallic Pressure Piping Code Week in Houston, Richard Campbell received the 2025 ASME B31 Forever Medal for Excellence in Piping. He was presented with the medal by the B31 Standards Committee Vice Chair, John Swezy.

The ASME B31 Forever Medal for Excellence in Piping is a Committee Award that was established in 2010 that is awarded for distinguished contributions in the field of pressure piping including but not limited to leadership, technical, research and development, and publication efforts that have had a significant impact on the content, development, promulgation, and expansion of ASME B31 piping standards. 

Richard Campbell is an ASME Fellow, AWS Fellow, and Bechtel Fellow Emeritus. He has more than 45 years of welding and metallurgical engineering experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Welding and Mechanical Engineering from LeTourneau University and a doctorate in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was a past Chair of the Board on Conformity Assessment, Vice Chair of the B31.3 Process Piping Section Committee, Member of the Congress Steering Committee, Member of the Board on Council Operations, and officer or member of dozens of ASME committees and subcommittees (e.g. Section IX, BPE, B31, C-CAR).

Campbell is the recipient of the J. Hall Taylor Medal, Dedicated Service Award, and the BPE Leadership and Legacy Awards. 

Past Recipients – ASME B31 Forever Medal for Excellence in Piping:

2024 Pete Deubler 
2023 George Antaki
2022 Charles Becht IV
2022 Raymond Reamey
2021 Jimmy Meyer
2020 Michael Rosenfeld
2019 Robert Appleby
2018 Walter Sperko
2016 Ron Haupt
2015 Philip Flenner
2014 John Kiefner
2013 Mohinder Nayyar
2012 William Koves
2011 Don Frikken and Everett Rodabaugh
2010 Louis Hayden Jr