The April 8-9 event at the Bellagio casino-hotel in Las Vegas included lectures, discussions, a product show and tours of radiant-using projects.

Uponor brought 60 North American consulting and specifying engineers to its first Radiant Cooling Engineering Summit last month.

The April 8-9 event at the Bellagio casino-hotel in Las Vegas included lectures, discussions, a product show and tours of radiant-using projects.

"Since 2005, radiant heating and cooling system specifications have risen 36 percent, so that approximately 8.5 percent of all new commercial construction is now specified with this technology," said summit program host Dan Sullivan, Uponor’s senior product manager for its commercial radiant business. "By 2013, that fraction is projected to rise to around 13 percent."

Uponor’s 2010 took place at the same time, attracting 688 plumbing and mechanical contractors, sales staff and distributors.