The state-of-the-art facility houses IAPMO R&T’s Oceana research center and product testing laboratory.

Plumbing & Mechanical recently had the chance to catch up with industry veteran Mark Chaffee, the vice president of governmental relations and sustainability at Cranston, Rhode Island-based Taco Comfort Solutions. 

Lochinvar recently launched 20 new commercial heat pump models ranging from 25,000 to 250,000 Btu/h, and with modular installation capabilities up to 2 million Btu/h. 

Paul M. Dorman High School in Roebuck, South Carolina, is achieving academic excellence that’s the envy of many other schools across the Southeast. 

Built more than 30 years ago on the western shores of Puget Sound, a 15,000 square foot custom-built home sits picturesquely at the tip of a cove. 

It was such a simple project; replace the old cast iron boiler with a new condensing boiler. You knocked it out in a few days. 

Some hydronic system designers cling to certain system piping configurations — even when existing projects using those configurations have produced problems.

With innovative design and control technology, the Laars MagnaTherm FT boiler provides reliability, exceptional energy efficiency and industry-leading performance for a variety of commercial applications and conditions, the company explains. 

Made in Morrow, Georgia, TOTO’s Drake II 1-GPF toilet offers the company’s TORNADO FLUSH system, which marries performance and bowl-cleansing action to ultra-high-efficiency water savings. 

Anyone who says they wouldn’t change a thing on the hydronic systems they’ve designed or installed over the last decade is either so oblivious to changes in technology that they don’t know any better, so egotistical they can’t accept that improvement of their work is possible, or so foolish they don’t care what they’re missing out on.