Features Category - Heating and Ventilating

18 Apr 2024

Energy-efficient tips when heating your home in 2024

If you’re keen to reduce your energy bills, there are some things you can do to heat your home more efficiently....

29 Feb 2024

Plumbing Innovation: What is Changing in the Industry?

The plumbing business is embracing innovation like never before, from eco-friendly fixtures to smart home systems and advanced plumbing tool kits. Technological advancements mean that plumbers can complete their tasks more efficiently and offer ...

21 Dec 2023

Why stored hot water is crucial for Net Zero

Mixergy CEO, Peter Armstrong, explains how having a smart hot water cylinder installed can save householders money on their energy bills now, prepare them for a future renewable heating system and also allow them to take advantage of flexible ...

10 Nov 2021

Driving woodburning change

Concerns about domestic woodburning in the UK and its impact on air quality have recently been brought to the fore again by groups such as Mums For Lungs. HETAS has weighed in on the issue saying it recognises that this is a hugely complex challenge ...

7 Sep 2021

The importance of installing air conditioning

Worcester Bosch has answered some frequently asked questions on installing air conditioning units, that will help installers better understand the job at hand...

26 Aug 2021

Innovations in towel rails

Steve Birch, sales director, Vogue UK discusses the latest innovations in towel rails looking at how the heating industry has evolved, along with some of the latest technology in use and cutting-edge designs available...

28 Jul 2021

The facts about water treatment

HVRd recently caught up with Richard Crisp, head of chemistry at Fernox, to ask him some of the common questions installers have about domestic water treatment...

William Hunt, Windsor Herald presents the IoP’s grant of arms in 2000. Left to right: Bob Price (APHC president), Peter Wilson (IoP president), William Hunt (Windsor Herald), Andy Watts (IoP), Geoff Marsh (IoP) and John Mayfield (Master of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers)

29 Jun 2021

Sad farewell to former CIPHE chief

The Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) has announced the death of former chief executive Andy Watts MBE EngTech MCIPHE RP....

Keith Bastian, chief executive of Fischer Future Heat and Outfox the Market

29 Jun 2021

The clean air battle

It is no secret that our global community is facing a climate emergency; governments, businesses and homeowners have been joining forces in the battle for clean air. Through everyone reducing their carbon footprints and limiting the pollutants they ...

Malcolm Farrow, head of public affairs, OFTEC

23 Jun 2021

Heat and Buildings Strategy must be high on ambition and pragmatism to truly level up

The importance of this year’s UK-hosted COP26 cannot be overstated. With uncertainty around how many more opportunities there will be to decide on the meaningful actions needed to avoid a global climate catastrophe, the stakes could hardly be higher....

17 Jun 2021

BioLPG– the answer to quick carbon saving for installers

Karl Bateman, national specifier manager at Calor, explains why the challenges of off-grid rural homes mean that boilers will continue to have a place, and why sustainable fuels such as BioLPG offer installers an easy way to deliver carbon-...

9 Jun 2021

Radiators are good partners to heat pumps

The development of lower temperature heating systems, utilising renewable heating appliances, such as air source heat pumps, has given rise to a number of questions including where do components we have got to know and love over the years fit into ...

Stewart Clements, director of the Heating and Hot Water Industry Council

26 May 2021

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Energy-efficient tips when heating your home in 2024

Plumbing Innovation: What is Changing in the Industry?

Why stored hot water is crucial for Net Zero

Driving woodburning change

The importance of installing air conditioning

Innovations in towel rails

The facts about water treatment

Sad farewell to former CIPHE chief

The clean air battle

Heat and Buildings Strategy must be high on ambition and pragmatism to truly level up

BioLPG– the answer to quick carbon saving for installers

Radiators are good partners to heat pumps

The next step to a sustainable future

How air source water systems are changing the heating market

Warming up to solar thermal

The Great British space invasion

Housing developers urged to bring forward end to fossil fuel heating

Heating up the home office: Electric heating as a solution to remote working

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