There are now a number of large-scale radiant slab building systems being designed and built around the world to address indoor comfort issues and low energy use concerns.
Issue: 10/04
There are now a number of large-scale radiant slab (concrete core conditioning) building systems being designed and built around the world, based on initial projects that were developed in Switzerland and other parts of Europe some two decades ago. The track record of the older projects dating from the late 1980s and early 1990s have proven that this technique for building indoor comfort control can work very well and be a very low-energy-use building system. The learning curve that the original system designers have gone through is well-documented, and there are a number of detailed technical papers that have been published in the last few years that have outlined and described the effective tweaking of these types of systems to optimize both the indoor comfort and the low energy use.