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- Our substantive article for Watts’ IntelliStation digital water mixing technology won the cover story spot in PME, March 2020 issue.
- Rachel’s Detroit Free Press article for EVAPCO, looks at the long dormant historical newspaper building, undergoing a major overhaul with impressive system upgrades.
- Common Ground worked closely with experts to get these commercial energy-savings insights into one of the leading electric distribution magazines.
- Our article about Denron P&H’s Wall Street Tower project in Manchester, NH won big coverage for Laars, Taco + EVAPCO in the 1/13/20 issue of the NEWS.
- The IntelliStation digital mixing technology by Watts/Powers has enabled hotels and many other commercial users of domestic water to dial-in the perfect temps for domestic water distribution.
- Our Philadelphia high rise cooling article won a cover spot in MCAA’s Summer’19 Smart Solutions magazine.
- This cover story looks at EVAPCO’s cooler tower technology and chemical-free water treatment, key components within smart building system designs at SDSU.
- A Q+A w/ EVAPCO’s Adam Radford, and a handful of superb professional photos, secured EVAPCO’s involvement in this big, evaporative cooling cover story.
- Dan’s big Baker Ground article, published as a cover story in the June ’19 issue of Contractor, looks at the art of prefabrication.
- Here, EVAPCO technology plays an important role in this new, high-tech buildings’ HVAC solution.
- Snowmelt systems and the art of the best guess.
- This big feature – with details about an ultra-green cooling system retrofit for Gettysburg Hospital – won nice coverage in Commercial Construction & Renovation magazine.
- Taco hits it outta’ the park with Mark Chaffee’s expertise on tap, making PME‘s October 18 cover story an insightful resource for anyone seeking the latest on DOE’s looming pump efficiency deadline.
- Our commercial booster pump article for Taco, with Rob Waszak byline, won coverage in all three TOMB magazines – PE, PHC News + Wholesaler.
- Designers of this facility choose ultra-efficient EVAPCO coolers to improve system efficiency.
- This article offers insight into a high efficiency domestic water solution for a newly constructed school in Cleveland.
- John’s SideTracked article looks at a brewery’s use of Watts drainage technology.
- John worked with engineer/writer, Daniela Llanos on this detailed look at how new EVAPCO coolers were put to work at a high-tech facility near Boston.
- Here, John’s article about state-of-the-art digital mixing for commercial domestic water systems explains why leading businesses and institutions have chosen this technology to assure consistency, comfort and safety.
- We worked with the NEWS staff writer, Joanna Turpin, to develop experts’ quotes, and to provide photos for Taco, Bradford White and Laars participation in this commercial boiler systems article.
- John’s article in the December ’16 issue of HPAC Engineering is one of the years’ most definitive descriptions of how and why hydronics continues to succeed.
- Survival of the fittest. Steady evolution of commercial hydronic systems is tied to not only extreme efficiency, comfort and flexibility, but also to much-improved connectedness to other building systems. John’s article is one of the year’s definitive descriptions of how and why hydronics continues to succeed.
- Here’s a Big (green) Apple story: In New York City, a super-efficient co-gen installation for Ronald McDonald House has won broad accolades. This Federal Construction cover story tells all, including the role of Laars hydronic equipment.
- Dan’s article about a new cancer patient center with an HVAC system connected to a giant aquifer below it won the top spot.
- Stemming from a 2-day editorial event at Watts, this full-page article about Watts’ new training center promotes Watts training, technology and expertise.
- Following a trip to Montana, this article written by Dan offers insights into an amazingly “green” and energy effiicient mechanical system at a new health facility in Missoula.
- John worked closely with Taco’s Jim Garrett and Rich Medairos to complete this “optimizing hydronic system performance” article, published in Mechanical Business.
- Dan’s 7-page SNHU hydronic energy retrofit cover story – promoting commercial Viridian pump technology – provides readers with insight to state-of-the-art pumping strategies and superb, well-documented energy savings.
- This big article by John tells of a very large and problematic IAQ challenge at the Columbus North Market. The solution merely required the right assembly of equipment and expertise.
- Dan’s WSU biomed article promotes state-of-the-art mechanical systems and innovative acid waste technology.
- Our Red Bulls soccer field turf conditioning project won the cover story position, promoting Watts Radiant and Taco technology. We developed key parts of this article for Kelly Faloon, Plumbing & Mechanical.
- Dan’s article about a cancer patient healthcare facility in Missoula, MT – heated and cooled by tapping a giant, underground aquifer – won the cover story spot in PME’s March ’14 issue.
- Dan’s article about serious, work-stopping IAQ woes at Rite Engineering in Wisconsin won big story coverage in the Feb. 10 ’14 issue of the ACHR News for Modine.
- Dan’s Orleans, Mass. school retrofit story focuses on the use of Taco SelfSensing pumps for dramatic improvements to overall system efficiency.
- John’s Jan/Feb ’14 Commercial Building Products “City Creek, Utah” cover story offers insight into a sweeping urban renewal project in Salt Lake City. Mechanical Systems – with key components and systems from Watts, Taco + Evapco = play a prominent role.
- Our feature story about a troublesome water treatment challenge at Fort Still – with a solution in the form of Watts OneFlow – became the inaugural cover story for this magazine’s first in-print issue.
- Dan’s “Hooters” feature was the cover story for the May 27 issue of the ACHR News; it promotes Taco’s iWorx control platform.
- This big cover story – For Fujitsu and Modine – appeared on December 24, 2012 issue of the ACHR News. The article tells readers about a big renovation project involving the integration of super-efficient ductless technology with innovative rooftop systems, allowing ERV fresh air intake.
- John’s variable speed pumping technical feature appeared in the December ’12 issue of HPAC Engineering. The article looks at smart use of variable frequency drives, tapping Taco and independent engineer expertise.
- John’s article – “It’s All About Flow” – taps Taco expertise to examine one of the fundamental needs for effective commercial hydronics. The article won the cover story position in the Winter ’12 issue of Wisconsin PHC Contractor.
- John developed this hotel water treatment article with Watts Water professional Steve Callahan. It appeared in the November ’12 issue of PME.
- Dan wrote this in-depth case study about a large nursing facility that went all-geo, requiring 615 tons of heating and cooling. It appeared in the September ’12 issue of Engineered Systems magazine.
- Our big placement in the new online magazine, Federal Construction, promoted the broad use of Laars technology at the new, ultra-green Phoenix Convention Center.
- John’s technical article about the ideal co-joining of “mod-con” and “non-con” boilers, which ran in the September ’12 issue of HPAC Engineering, won rave reviews by readers.
- Dan’s article about a Colorado school’s mechanical makeover, involving a lot of new Taco (Virdian pump) technology won top billing in the August issue of Contractor magazine.
- John’s “Renewable Energy: A Tale of Four Products” feature was published in the July/August ’12 issue of Commercial Building Products. ClimateMaster, Fröling and Watts Radiant technologies all receive great coverage.
- Dan’s story about Apple’s use of Taco’s new iWorx controls technology at their über-cool Grand Central Station retail space won some nice coverage in the August issue of Phc News.
- This feature article, written by John, appeared in the Federal Construction magazine’s Feb/March 2012 issue; it tells about the use of Watts technology to secure water supplies for thousands of Indians in the Laguna Pueblo reservation in remote New Mexico – one of the world’s most arid climates.
- Our “Steel isn’t Just for Bars” article covers the installation of Watts BLÜCHER drains in the kitchen of the Orleans Parish Correctional Complex in LA – a cookery that can prepare more than 25,000 meals in a 12-hour period. It appeared in the Jan. ’12 issue of Federal Construction Magazine.
- This cover story for the Feb. ’11 issue of Chief Engineer sheds light on a unique commercial installation of high efficiency water heaters near Pittsburgh.
- John’s “New Age of Hydronics” article won the cover story spot for the January ’11 issue of HPAC Engineering‘s Boiler Systems Engineering supplement which also appeared in Contractor and Contracting Business magazines.
- Our article about a historic Arkansas hotel’s mini-split HVAC makeover was the cover story spot in the Jan. ’11 issue of Chief Engineer.
- Our May ’11 feature in Engineered Systems offers a pathway to improved, variable-speed hydronic flow.
- John developed this Nov. ’10 HPAC Engineering article about new, “template assisted crystallization” commercial water treatment technology.
- Water Quality Products magazine asked John to develop this technical water treatment feature for their January ’11 issue.
- We developed this snowmelt feature with author Kolyn Marshall for publication in the Dec. ’10 issue of Engineered Systems.
- Dan’s article about Seaman’s Mech in the September ’10 issue of Contractor is one of the year’s largest articles. It’s all about geo + radiant + green technology, smartly applied.
- John worked with Taco’s Greg Cunniff to develop an end-of-2010 article about emerging, new technology – chilled beams. It appeared in the industry’s
newest magazine, Canadian Journal of Green Building & Design. - Chicago’s big monthly, Chief Engineer, used John’s Spring Creek boiler retrofit article as the cover story for the October 2010 issue.
- Chief Engineer magazine published our big Columbus Police Academy article as a cover story in their September ’10 issue.
- Chicagoland’s big monthly, Chief Engineer, ran our über-green, Midtown Exchange retrofit article as a cover story in their August ’10 issue.
- Chicago’s Chief Engineer magazine ran our thermal energy transfer article as the June ’10 cover story. It promotes ClimateMaster, Taco and Laars technology and expertise.
- Our hydronic retrofit/massive mechanical overhaul story won a cover story placement for Laars in the Feb. ’10 issue of PM.
- The editors of Commercial Building Products turn to John routinely to develop “round-up” articles; this Building Power supplement cover story reviews new and emerging technology prior to the big, 2010 AHR Expo.
- This Chief Engineer cover placement for Laars offers insight into an ultra-green commercial heating system.
- Integrated HVAC in NY got the nod to install many super-efficient Laars Rheos+ modulating-condensing boilers in this large, urban multi-housing unit.
- A historic hotel gets its first HVAC makeover. The need for simplicity and efficiency pointed the building owners to Fujitsu.
- This May ’10 Engineered Systems magazine article looks at new pump and piping enhancements for small and large commercial hydronic systems.
- John developed this big hydronic retrofit story for Laars and Integrated HVAC, published in the June ’10 issue of HPAC Engineering.
- Commercial Building Products ran this article about hydronic system retrofits. It combines superb photos and a mix of information about Taco, Watts Radiant and Laars technology.
- John developed this water-sourced heat pumps technical article as a cover story for Plumbing Engineer‘s July ’09 issue.
- This cover story for HPAC Engineering ’08 issue reveals one of the greenest movements in the commercial building industry.
- The September ’09 issue of HPAC Engineering featured this huge building retrofit story about über-green mechanical systems.
- iGreenBuild.com – one of the nation’s leading green e-zines – ran our Laars/Phoenix Convention Center story as a lead article in August.
- This Pittsburgh school wisely chose eF water heaters for their ultra-high efficiency and quiet operation.
- The new generation of high efficiency commercial water heaters: an asset to building owners and engineers alike.
- In February ’09, Concrete Construction magazine published our high-mass snowmelt technology article.
- Our Phoenix Convention Center story won a cover placement in the inaugural issue of Building Power magazine.
- John developed this story about Columbus Police Academy’s extensive hydronic system, published in the Feb. issue of Engineered Systems.
- This story won broad national (and here: regional, Chicagoland) attention for ClimateMaster, promoting the many advantages of their super-efficient technology.
- This USGBC LEED-certified condo in D.C. has won the attention of journalists nationwide. ClimateMaster technology (not initially spec’d for the job) made it all possible.
- John developed this über-green commercial HVAC story for the Nov/Dec ’08 issue of Commercial Building Products.
- Hydronic heat in Phoenix? The Oct. ’08 issue of Engineered Systems carried the answer to that question in John’s feature story about the installation of many Laars Rheos+ boilers at the new convention center there.
- It’s cold in the UConn, and that fueled the need for sophisticated hydronics. Commercial Building Products asked John to prepare this feature for their Sept. ’09 issue.
- John developed this “smart pumps” article for the October issue of Plumbing Engineer.
- A 600% efficiency HVAC solution for buildings? It’s readily available today at less than the cost of traditional chiller/boiler/cooling tower solutions.
- Mitsubishi Motors can squeeze more miles per gallons than most. So they know a thing or two about efficiency when selecting key mechanical components at their plants.
- Plumbing Engineer asked John for this article about comfort systems at Washington DC’s first LEED condo.
- Dow Chemical commissioned John to develop this 2-part article to educate installers and engineers about the need to consider the right glycol blend for large radiant and snowmelt systems.
- HPAC Engineering asked John to develop this building retrofit story for their April ’08 issue.
- Engineered Systems Editor Robert Beverly asked John to prepare this ClimateMaster LEED article for ES‘ January ’08 issue.
- John’s LA high rise/domestic water pressure boosting article appeared in the May ’08 issue of Reeves Journal.
- Common Ground and ClimateMaster writer Phil Johnson collaborated on the development of this “thermal energy transfer” project profile.
- John wrote and placed this July ’07 HPAC Engineering cover story about a high rise pressure boosting system in LA for author Steve Dickson, Grundfos Pumps. This “e-reprint” includes Grundfos letter and ad, a nice touch.
- PM magazine ran this article about a high profile job in Columbus, OH, one that extensively used Watts Radiant and Laars technology.
- We developed this big, green HVAC feature article for HPAC‘s 12/07 issue, promoting new ClimateMaster technology.
- This Phc News cover photo won the top spot for Laars, September ’07.
- John developed this chemical dosing pumps article for Grundfos with authorship to Rob Baur, Clean Water Services.
- Engineered Systems magazine asked John to develop this article about a super-big, super-fast radiant + snowmelt job for Air Net Express, Columbus, OH.
- This PEX cover feature story, authored by John Vastyan, ran in the June ’07 issue of Plumbing Engineer.
- John developed this PE-bylined article for Plumbing Engineer describing an installer’s preference for multi-speed circulators.
- Engineered Systems magazine commissioned John to develop this lengthy “New Millennium of Hydronics” article which appeared in the Sept. ’05 issue.
