Consulting engineers have a range of choices today when it comes to meeting the demands of their clients. Some customers are looking to employ the most advanced boiler technology with features like modulating burners, condensing heat exchangers, cascading options, and better heat emitters like in-floor radiant. Other customers are simply looking for heat and are not concerned with anything but meeting minimum building code requirements.
Many building owners understand and seek the benefits of modern technology, so it should be the engineer’s objective to design the heating system (and select the boilers at the heart of it) that meets or exceeds the owner’s expectations for sustained energy efficiency over the decades-long life that today’s modern boilers can provide.