Background: IPEX designed a dual heating system for its new manufacturing facility: the production area was heated with a traditional gas-fired overhead system; and the much larger warehouse and office areas, with WarmRite Floor® radiant heating.

Problem: To determine which heating system is more efficient in a industrial facility: conventional overhead tubing or IPEX WarmRite Floor® radiant heating?

Solution: Separate billing proved WarmRite Floor® radiant heating to cost dramatically less to operate. In 2002, the conventional system cost $1.12/ft2 to operate while radiant heating cost only $0.27/ft2.

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The cost and efficiency of radiant floor heating was put to the test when IPEX built its new production and warehouse facility in Edmonton, Alberta. The new construction featured a traditional natural gas fired overhead tube heating system in the 45,000 ft2 production area, and WarmRite Floor® radiant heating in the large 84,000 ft2 warehouse and office areas.
The construction presented an ideal opportunity to compare costs between heating systems in an industrial application.

Putting Radiant Heating to the Test

In order to compare heating costs of these two separate areas in the building, each area is monitored by its own gas meter and receives its own separate billing. In less than one year, the cost savings were spectacular.
It is dramatically less expensive to heat the large warehouse and office area—including a snowmelt system for an eight-bay loading dock—using WarmRite Floor®, than it is to heat the smaller production area using