Software for the MEP segment continues to rapidly evolve, allowing engineers to improve accuracy and optimize building system design by enhancing collaboration and sharing data between all members of a project, which in turn, helps speed project completion.
Most hydronic heating systems that have renewable energy heat sources, such as solar thermal collectors, an air-to-water or geothermal heat pump or a biomass boiler also have an auxiliary heat source.
pme 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.