Construction always presents challenges to owners, the design community, and contractors. Phipps is committed to offer innovative solutions to those challenges. Keeping projects on schedule and budget is especially difficult during the winter because excess moisture accompanies warm air that is blown into a building.

For many years direct and indirect fired heat have been the primary solutions for allowing work in cold temperatures.

Direct fired heaters add considerable moisture and carbon monoxide. Indirect units require extensive ductwork outside the building and an array of fans inside the building to move the warm air within the site. Indirect units also have high fuel costs because they must heat outside ambient air to the required temperature.

Phipps now rents in all of its locations highly safe and efficient hydronic heating systems that provide consistent, dry heat to keep your project dryer, on budget, and on track. With a hydronic system, an external burner flash heats and pumps at low pressure food grade glycol to thermostatically controlled and quiet heat exchangers placed strategically in the building. Operating much like a residential furnace, the hydronic system maintains the air temperature within the structure while only re-heating the glycol temperature differential. Consequently the hydronic system burner only operates a fraction of the time saving precious fueling dollars. Please contact us if you would like more information on how Phipps can help your winter projects be completed successfully.