There is an increasing awareness — among consumers and governments alike — that climate change and greenhouse gas emissions have a severely harmful impact on the environment. 

Much of the United States’ more than one million miles of pipe is coming to the end of its useful life. 

Several months ago I wrote about personality metrics months back. 

What captures the imagination of an engineer more than the elegant lumbering of a steam locomotive? 

In last month’s column, I presented a “template” for a system that provides space heating, cooling and domestic water heating using a cold climate air-to-water heat pump as the primary heat source, and the sole source of chilled water for cooling. 

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According to the U.S. Department of Energy, roughly 430 quintillion Joules of the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth each hour. 

According to a report from Global Market Insights, the U.S. boiler market is projected to reach $4.5 billion by 2025, a 3.3% increase since 2018. 

As COVID-19 and its physical and economic impacts reshape industries, facility managers and building operators are looking at how to most efficiently run existing commercial and industrial spaces that may be used very differently in the future. 

Looking back to 1991 when we first started searching for home designs, there was a radiant heating revival underway in the USA.