Every time I go across the Atlantic to visit a trade show on hydronic heating systems in Europe, I see more and more radiant systems designed for walls and ceilings. I recently returned from the ...

A battery walks into a bar. The bartender yells, “Hey, don’t start anything here!” Now, I don’t want to start anything here either. But I just have to say this: Sometimes, putting radiant tubing in ...

That's 0.0082677165 inches for Americans, and really thin in either unit. One of the great advantages of Passivhaus design is that they don't require much heating, in even the coldest of climates.

Radiant HVAC — what is it? Heating is done in three ways in buildings — convection, conduction, and radiation. Heating and cooling with air is common in most building HVAC systems. Heating and cooling ...

Q: It's time to build our retirement home. The house will be in a four-season climate, and I insist on it being as comfortable as possible when it's cold outdoors. I've heard about radiant floor heat ...

Electric radiant floor systems typically consist of electric heating cables built into the floor. Electrical matting may also be mounted on the subfloor or below floor covering. The primary advantages ...

Most people assume radiant floor heating costs a fortune. Perhaps that's because, compared with radiator or baseboard heat, radiant systems are rare. But there's reason to suppose that in the years to ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Most North American homes are heated, cooled and ventilated with forced air. Some have ...