Hover over main image for caption information. A typical oil fired forced hot water heating system, installed in 1980 was ready for replacement. The original boiler room equipment was removed, which ...

It's not glamorous. The principles are simple. It's time-tested and can work virtually anywhere. It could save the United States millions of barrels of oil every year, and it doesn't involve a large ...

Last month I wrote about early steam heating and how experimentation led to discovery, which led to new products or piping techniques. This time I will be writing about the early days of gravity hot ...

When Terry McIlveen built his home in Maine in 1997, he made the unusual choice to install radiant floor heating. “People thought I was nuts,” he says. However, since that time, radiant floor heat has ...

To achieve peak efficiency and prevent corrosion, steam and hot water boilers in hydronic heating systems require regular maintenance. Neglecting this can lead to increased service calls and a ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. While touring the laundry rooms and closets of Olympia, Washington after the Passive House ...

Conventional district heating systems are generally designed around the load. However, an alternate approach would be to design around potential heat sources, including the waste heat from power ...

The world’s largest geothermally heated hotel, which happens to be connected to the world’s largest mineral hot springs pool, is in the middle of a major upgrade to its 30-year-old heating system.

This month’s B2B will focus on a 1,000-kW cogeneration unit with hot water energy recovery to a domestic hot water and process heating system on an existing health care campus. The pre-packaged ...

Scott and Ruth Rice’s stone and stucco home in Upper Macungie Township has cathedral ceilings, palladium windows and nearly 4,300 square feet of living space, including the finished basement. Yet the ...