The historic Wick Tower in downtown Youngstown, Ohio, has seen both peaks and valleys since its completion in 1910 — even boasting the tallest building in town for several decades.
Texas might not be top of mind when thinking about radiant heating, but when some longtime customers mentioned radiant floor warming for their new building, Raymond Nelson knew exactly what to do — he called his Viega rep and got the ball rolling.
In the middle of the Front Range, looking down over the Denver skyline and plains, sits a historic property built in 1933 that is undergoing a complete transformation.
The U.S. geothermal heat pump industry was breaking out the champagne on Feb. 9, 2018. That’s the day President Donald Trump signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, a bill that boosted government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.
We are proud to present the third of five eBooks specifically for the hydronics and radiant heating/cooling market. Brought to you by Plumbing & Mechanical, PM Engineer and Supply House Times, this eBook is a collection of columns and articles from John Siegenthaler, P.E., a well-respected hydronics expert and longtime columnist for PM, pme and Supply House Times.
Slant/Fin took its name from founder Mel Dubin’s original design — a slanted, locked fin — that he came up with in response to the era’s inefficient fin-tube radiation designs.
A contractor is asked to design a hydronic heating system for a modest, super-insulated house in a cold Northern climate. The home’s design load is only 18,000 Btu/h. The owners are planning to install a 12 KW solar photovoltaic electrical system.