Undertaking Information: Episode 69 — Electrical Warmth for Excessive-Rise Condos

Positioned within the Monetary District and Tribeca neighborhoods in Decrease Manhattan, 111 Murray Avenue is a 792-foot-tall residential skyscraper with 156 luxurious condominiums and a couple of,100 sq. toes of retail area on the bottom flooring.

The proprietor sought a approach so as to add warmth for supplemental consolation, condensation prevention, and steady heat all through every apartment.

The constructing is tall, glossy, and principally glass. As a result of mechanical constraints exacerbated by that slim design, scorching water was not obtainable in a lot of the higher residences, and that made hydronic methods impractical. So the constructing proprietor requested Berko ASL3 convector heaters from Marley Engineered Merchandise.

Convection heaters present heat and warmth to a particular space or room by circulating air and heating it utilizing a extremely environment friendly electrical factor. Designed for quiet, managed consolation, they are perfect for each residential and business functions, together with residing rooms and bedrooms, places of work, hallways, lobbies, convention rooms, retail shops, and buildings with floor-to-ceiling home windows.

The problem got here from the constructing proprietor’s choice to maintain the warmers hidden for aesthetic causes. The various heights and angles of the millwork in every apartment restricted the flexibility to put in the warmers straight the place they wished them.

A customized design proved to be the reply.

The answer concerned fabricating and supplying customized twin inlet convector heaters, which have been then mounted inside the millwork of every condominium unit by Faber Industrial Applied sciences. Utilizing a thermocouple array, the engineering group at Marley examined the Berko ASL3 convectors — at 125 watts per foot and 120V — inside a customer-supplied demo millwork part despatched from New York Metropolis. After making some changes to the design, thermal couplers have been utilized on each the warmers and their enclosures to make sure their floor temperatures would cross a UL web site inspection.

Then, energy relays have been used to suit the warmers into every apartment’s temperature management system. The outcome was an “invisible” resolution the place not one of the controls or heaters might be seen within the residential models.