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Plumbing & HVAC Product News – Sept/Oct 2001

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eKOCOMFORT systems at testing stage

Contractors and home builders who stay on the leading edge of new technologies to better serve their customer's needs will soon have a new class of packaged systems to offer. The new eKOCOMFORT system, or Advanced Integrated Mechanical Systems, may be introduced to home builders late this year or early in 2002 and then to the HVAC industry at CMX in Toronto March 21-23.

These packaged units integrate DHW heating, space heating options and continuous filtered ventilation air, all normally installed separately and often at different times. The six new systems will be the result of three years of research and development driven by funding and technical support from Natural Resources Canada and several of its industry programs.

The AIMS program was launched in 1999 and ends, after an extension, next March. The primary goals have been to reduce energy consumption, and therefore carbon dioxide emissions leading to global warming, and advance stagnating residential HVAC technologies.

After two years of design, development and assessment, prototypes will undergo extensive testing based on a comprehensive common standard at the independent laboratory, Bodycote Ortech, in Mississauga, Ont. At the same time, they will be assessed by NRCan's Canadian Centre for Housing Technology laboratory and subject to field trials in new housing.

All six units will be marketed under the eKOCOMFORT brand. The initial target market will be innovative new home builders.

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Bodycote Ortech's Don Giannini explains testing procedures for the six integrated heating, ventilation and DHW systems.