hydronic systems

PEX Protects Pedestrians and High-End Flooring At City’s Prestigious Place Ville Marie Every winter in Montreal, an army of municipal employees works around the clock, running one of the largest snow-removal operations in the world.  Up to 3,000 personnel and 1,000 snowplows are mobilized to collect 300,000 truckloads of snow from 10,000 kilometers of city Read more

“Any day building custom mechanical rooms is a great day,” says Tyler Dynes (@dyneshvac), lead installer—with a specialty in hydronics—for Farr Mechanical Corp., greater Toronto area. You see, for Dynes, the most rewarding part of his work is seeing the finished install and hearing the customer say, “this is the nicest room in the house.” Read more

Caleffi North America, Inc., a leader in state-of-the-art engineered solutions for hydronic and plumbing systems and committed to providing Excellence in Education, is proud to introduce the 30th edition of idronics™:  Hydronics for Low-Energy & Net-Zero Buildings.  This newest edition describes concepts and technical details in crafting hydronic systems for these modern buildings. It stresses Read more

We are approaching the end of the 2018-2019 heating season in North America, although homeowners in the colder northern sections of the United States and throughout Canada will likely need their heating systems for another two, maybe even three months. As you know, our long cold seasons can take a heavy toll on hydronic heating Read more

Coffee with Caleffi: Fundamentals of heat metering in hydronic systems webinar. Heat metering has practical applications including apportioning energy costs to multiple customers served by a central system based on individual consumption.  Another common application is verifying if a heating (or cooling) source is producing its expected thermal output.  With the recently defined ASTM E3137 Standard Specification for Heat Read more