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Hydronic heating provides superior comfort

Industry professionals weigh-in on current market trends.

September 9, 2019

When John Kopf eventually gets around to designing and building his own house, he will go with hydronic heat instead of a more traditional forced air system. Kopf knows a thing or two about heating, having spent more than 20 years in the industry. He currently serves as boiler product manager for Navien.

John Siegenthaler: Bidirectional Btu

The flexibility of hydronic systems.

John Siegenthaler, P.E.

September 6, 2019

Over the years, our office has received requests for design assistance for systems involving two hydronic heat sources, each in different buildings, where the expectation is to have either heat source supply heat to either building.

Dave Yates: Corporate grand entrance

Success doesn’t happen by accident.

Dave Yates

August 13, 2019

After being contacted by the general contractor, we met on site to go over the possibility of installing a snowmelt system for the more than 2,000-square-feet of sidewalks, which also included two ADA-sloped approaches to the grand entrance, a wide sweeping brick stairway and the landing pads outside the grand entrance.

John Siegenthaler: Hydronics hygiene

Clean your systems during commissioning.

John Siegenthaler, P.E.

July 9, 2019

Water is the “life-blood” of hydronic systems. Its chemical characteristics can make the difference between a system that lasts for decades versus one that develops expensive corrosion issues within months of commissioning.

Water Quality Can Make or Break a Hydronic System

Chemical treatment and filtration can help increase a system’s life cycle while improving efficiency.

Neil Watson

February 26, 2019

Water quality. If you haven’t spent a good deal of time thinking about it and the impact it has on your hydronic heating system, think again.

PM on the Road: Uponor 2018 Convention

John McNally

April 9, 2018

Uponor’s biannual convention in Las Vegas continues to be a major draw for the PHCP industry.

Properly sizing and operating circulators

Reducing head loss reduces the kWh of electrical energy required to operate them.

John Siegenthaler, P.E.

July 21, 2017

When designing hydronic circuits, most of us focus on what’s necessary for that circuit to absorb thermal energy at a heat source, carry it along like a conveyor belt and release that energy at one or more heat emitters.