Commercial heating


Radiators – a commercial consideration


Whilst we might immediately associate radiators with domestic heating, it’s incredible how many commercial premises also rely on radiators to share the heat from their heating systems around the properties


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ne radiator specialist, Stelrad, today supplies well in excess of two million radiators every year with over 50% of the market share of


radiators in the UK and Irish marketplaces. Today it offers a wider range of radiators than at any time in its history and the range is growing to include those that specifically meet the requirements of commercial buildings – in particular educational buildings – schools, colleges and universities – healthcare buildings including hospitals, doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries, clinics, nursing and care homes – and offices and industrial buildings as well. The company’s traditional radiators are the steel


panel radiators that adorn most of the homes in the UK. But radiators are now becoming far more sophisticated to meet pretty much every use you


can imagine. These include low surface temperature (LST) radiators, heavy duty robust radiators for use in buildings where the radiators might need to take a bit more stick than the standard property, through to special radiators for use in environments where the air is particularly humid – ideal for some industrial uses, for steamy environments like bathrooms, wet rooms and changing rooms in sporting facilities and sports centres up and down the country. There’s even a version of the LST radiator that has been designed to withstand the humidity but to also provide the safety element for environments where the young, the old and the vulnerable might frequent. Many of the special application radiators have been designed specifically in response to requests from customers and have gone on to make it into the main portfolio of radiators available to everyone – the original heavy duty radiator – a version of the popular flat fronted Planar radiator – was designed for postal sorting offices where the radiators might need to withstand a glancing blow from a trolley or a truck. The heavy-duty range is now popular in many school projects – saying something about the treatment meted out to them by school pupils perhaps. Designer and decorative radiators are used widely


in offices and in the business areas of industrial buildings as well, to create the right impression for visitors to offices and boardrooms up and down the country. The latest trend is for coloured radiators too – ideal when matching décor in a commercial


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building with the corporate colours of the company concerned. Matching radiators and carpets can make a hugely positive impression. Gone are the days when you could have a radiator in any colour, so long as it was white! And the huge increase in the sales of vertical radiators rather than traditional horizontal ones, has also totally revamped the options available for commercial building designers and architects looking for something different to specify. “In commercial settings, as in domestic ones,


we’re seeing radiators looked on as part of the décor rather than simply as a functional heating appliance,” says Stelrad’s head of marketing Chris Harvey. “Radiators come in literally hundreds of different sizes and shapes these days – there’s one for nearly every requirement and commercial buildings are no different from domestic homes when it comes to needing specific models to provide the right look and the adequate heating performance to deliver heating comfort for the people working in different areas of the building. They’re more controllable, more efficient and better suited than ever to a commercial setting.” Stelrad also has a range of K3 radiators to provide


comfort heating in buildings using low temperature renewable heating systems – powered by ground or air source heat pumps. These are radiators with three panels and three sets of fins to provide 50% more heat from the same radiator footprint as a K2 radiator of the same size.


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