Taco President and CEO John Hazen White Jr. announced the appointment of Wil VandeWiel as the new president and chief operating office of Taco, effective Dec. 15. As president and COO, VandeWiel will oversee daily operations and work with White and the board of directors in steering Taco’s growth in the years ahead.

Frost & Sullivan has recognized Armstrong Fluid Technology with its 2014 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Leadership. Frost & Sullivan said Armstrong’s solution portfolio enables it to deliver equipment, as well as complete HVAC systems with fully integrated controls, to provide end-to-end fluid solutions.

My objective is not to dissuade you from designing around 20° delta T at design load. It’s to assure you the sun will come up tomorrow if you happen to pick a different value.

National Energy Control Corp. (NECC), a leading wholesale distributor of commercial/industrial HVAC parts and supplies, has announced the release of its new Hydronic and Steam Sourcebook.

According to the experts, the most common mistake made by designers and installers is failing to calculate the correct heat load. 

The combined cost of hydronic radiant panel heating, along with a separate central cooling system, often strains the construction budget to a point where something has to go, and that something is usually the radiant heating option. It gets trumped by a lower-cost forced-air system that delivers both heating and cooling, albeit often at reduced comfort.

Danfoss has named Gregg Porter as regional sales manager for the Great Lakes region, which includes North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

Since heat travels on flow like a passenger on a train, where there is no flow, there is no heat. And it’s going to look just like an air problem. Which it’s not.

CIPH together with CMMTQ, HRAI, and TECA began a coordinated review of their respective hydronics training programs with the goal of creating a national learning standard for hydronics certification.