Joe Coppola, education chairman of the Hydronics Institute, has a goal: to teach heating-cooling contractors how to correctly design and troubleshoot basic hydronic systems. While the course has a ...

Recently, the photos that accompany the columns haven’t been matching up as well as I like, and since “it’s all about me,” I wanted to make sure I took some job site photos to use for this column. It ...

Modern hydronic heating systems have evolved in complexity over the last few decades; no doubt we’ll continue to refine and improve upon them. With this evolution, the need for proper piping design ...

For a century, we’ve fought friction with horsepower. New "biomimetic" research suggests that to break the efficiency wall, ...

Five natural gas–fired, shop-assembled integrated boilers capable of generating 426,000 lb/h of saturated steam at 550 psig were recently commissioned in Canada (Figure 4). These package boilers were ...

Question: I have an ancient boiler and heating system in my two-family brownstone. What can I do when I upgrade to create the most energy-efficient system? Good question given the time of year. First, ...

Turnkey boiler systems avoid the risks and complexities that come with a boiler overhaul.