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Cranston, RI, January 27, 2003 - Along with its LoadMatch™ single-piping
system Taco introduced its system design software program, Hydronic
Systems Solution, or HS2, at the AHR Expo in Chicago today.
HS2 software enables consulting-specifying engineers to design hydronic systems
with the use of a powerful Windows®-based software package made available
exclusively through Taco.
HS2 allows designers to cut system design in half, eliminate calculation errors
and make system changes in minutes.
The HS2 software was developed by the Van Boerum & Frank Associates design
firm located in Salt Lake City, Utah. “It really works the way an engineer
thinks,” says Ben Davis, project engineer and the lead individual behind
the HS2 software’s development. Davis describes the software as “intuitive”
from the design engineer’s perspective, employing symbols in a schematic
layout that look just like the actual equipment being specified.
The challenge to develop a software design program started at Van Boerum &
Frank about ten years ago, according to Davis, who felt that there had to be
a “better way” of HVAC system design than elongated spreadsheets.
When a prototype software package was at last ready to be shown industry manufacturers
by the time of the 2000 AHR Expo in Dallas, Van Boerum & Frank discovered
that only Taco was interested in taking a closer look at it.
By the time of the next AHR Expo, in Atlanta in 2001, Taco informed the firm’s
software marketing arm – HVAC Solution, Inc. – that “You’ve
really got something here. We’d like to build upon this,” Davis
relates.
That led to Taco becoming the exclusive licensee of the hydronic version of
the software. The software became a perfect match for LoadMatch, as all LoadMatch
equipment parts were integrated into the software’s program. “LoadMatch
and HS2 came together at just the right time,” says Davis.
For more specific information on HS2, go to www.hvacsolution.com.
Taco, Inc. headquartered in Cranston, RI, is an ISO 9001-registered manufacturer
of heating and cooling components for use in hydronic-based heating and cooling
systems. The company supplies a full range of high quality and long-lasting
products for residential, commercial and industrial applications worldwide.
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