VERSATILITY

There is no HVAC system more capable of handling wide ranges of building loads while allowing for owner customization options of a building’s space conditioning system.

The high versatility of a hydronic heating system not only allows the building owner to tightly define and stick to a budget, but provides the potential to integrate a heating and cooling system with many other needs at the property, including ventilation, plumbing, fire suppression, snow melting, onsite power generation, and irrigation.

Domestic hot water can be easily produced by the building’s hydronic heating system, and snowmelt systems rely almost exclusively on hydronic system installations. Integrating ventilation equipment to meet ASHRAE 62.1 indoor fresh air requirements for commercial building is simple with a hydronic system.

The “waste heat” from an onsite power generation system can be utilized to provide heating or cooling capacity while simultaneously supplying power to the facility. A variety of different heat and/or energy recovery systems can be linked seamlessly with a hydronic system.

Renewable “green” technologies are easier to integrate with hydronic systems than any other HVAC system on the market. Geothermal, solar thermal and photovoltaic, heat recover, energy recovery, etc., can all be utilized as heating, cooling, or energy sources for a properly designed, water-based system. Heat rejected from occupied spaces during the cooling season can even be used to supplement domestic hot water production.

Hydronic systems are also better suited to the hottest and coldest climates in the world simply because they do not rely solely on the limitations of a refrigerant circuit.

There is no system more capable of handling a wide range of building loads, and adapting to the needs of a specific facility regardless of the owner’s goals.