This is a great time to be involved in the hydronic heating industry. Many established techniques for hydronic heating are being rediscovered — particularly in the residential and light commercial market. Concepts like injection mixing, primary/secondary piping and zoning with diverter tees that were conceived decades ago are now being “redeployed” by many new hydronics practitioners, eager to build more efficient, reliable and versatile systems.
But our industry can’t survive solely on “rediscovering” old ideas. Progress in many technologies is at an all time high. In the computer industry, for example, new ideas and products appear almost weekly, with each new product leap-frogging the previous standard.