Light-Commercial & Institutional: all-electric comfort beyond the single-family scale
Offices, boutique retail, schools, clinics, and specialty spaces all want the same thing your best homes do: even, quiet, all-electric comfort that simply works. Waterless Radiant delivers it at building scale. An inverter air-source heat pump drives refrigerant directly through anti-corrosion copper loops in the floor for draft-free warmth in winter, then runs cooling through discreet, near-silent air handlers in summer — one all-electric platform, no boiler, no fossil fuel, no water loop to freeze or leak. Radiant heat means even floor temperatures, low fan energy, and far less stratification than all-air systems, so occupants stop complaining and specifiers stop compromising. For owners and designers electrifying offices and schools, it pairs an air-source heat pump's COP-up-to-4.6 efficiency with the calm, even climate that controlled and people-first environments demand. Purpose-built for your quality life.
Is this system fully all-electric for commercial buildings?
Yes. The platform is air-source heat-pump driven and all-electric end to end — no gas boiler, no on-site combustion, no fuel line. A single inverter air-source heat pump provides radiant floor heating in winter and cooling through air handlers in summer, with optional hot water. That makes it a direct fit for offices, schools, and light-commercial projects working under electrification codes or all-electric building requirements.
Common Light-Commercial & Institutional Challenges
We understand the unique production challenges your industry faces. Here's how we address them.
Electrification mandates with no fossil fuel allowed
New energy codes and all-electric building rules increasingly bar gas boilers and rooftop combustion in new offices, schools, and light-commercial construction. Owners need heating that holds up in cold weather without a fuel line, and most all-electric retrofits still rely on noisy forced-air. A cold-climate air-source heat pump platform that drives radiant floors gives you compliant, all-electric heat down into deep winter without any on-site combustion.
Forced-air that's noisy, drafty, and uneven
In classrooms, open offices, and quiet specialty spaces, conventional all-air HVAC means rushing vents, hot-and-cold zones, and constant temperature complaints. The acoustic and comfort bar in people-first institutional spaces is high, and forced air rarely clears it. Even radiant floor warmth with near-silent air handlers removes the drafts and the duct noise so the room simply feels steady.
Two mechanical systems eating budget and ceiling space
Specifying separate heating, cooling, and water-heating plant doubles the equipment, the controls, the maintenance contracts, and the plenum space competing with structure and finishes. For boutique commercial and tight institutional retrofits there's rarely room for it. One refrigerant platform that heats, cools, and makes hot water consolidates the mechanical room and the lifecycle cost into a single coordinated system.
Solutions Built for Light-Commercial & Institutional
All-electric radiant heat at building scale
Refrigerant flows directly through copper capillary loops embedded in the floor — no water, no boiler, no district heat. Warmth rises evenly from the surface across an open office floor or a classroom wing, with no rushing vents and no stratified hot ceilings. Because there's no water loop, there's nothing to freeze-burst over a holiday break or leak into the structure, which is exactly the reliability institutional owners ask for.
Waterless Radiant Floor Heating →Cooling and fresh air through discreet, near-silent handlers
The same platform delivers summer cooling and managed humidity through compact indoor air handlers that run near silently — roughly 20 dB(A), quieter than a library reading room. High-efficiency filtration and self-cleaning indoor units keep the air clean as it circulates. The result is the even, quiet, well-tempered climate that offices, schools, and controlled-environment spaces are designed around.
5-Constant Comfort →Per-room zoning and building-wide app control
Classrooms, offices, lounges, and specialty rooms each get independent setpoints, with the air-source heat pump modulating to load rather than cycling on and off. Facility staff schedule, monitor, and adjust zones from one app, so an unoccupied wing isn't conditioned at full tilt and a controlled-environment room stays exactly where it's set. Right-sized, zoned, all-electric comfort that's easy to run.
Products for Light-Commercial & Institutional
Light-Commercial Waterless Radiant System
The full all-electric platform sized for buildings: an inverter cold-climate air-source heat pump driving anti-corrosion copper capillary radiant floors for heating, plus discreet air handlers for cooling and humidity. Larger models support three-phase power and deliver up to 9.5 tons per unit, so a single outdoor unit can carry an executive suite, a classroom block, or an open office floor.
Anti-Corrosion Copper Capillary Floor Network
The radiant terminal: a dense network of full-anti-corrosion copper capillary tubing with braze-free, joint-minimized installation, set in just a few inches of floor build-up. Refrigerant-direct delivery means fast, even floor-up heat with no water, no second heat exchange, and near-zero ongoing maintenance — the reliability profile institutional facilities require.
Zoning & App Control Module
Low-voltage thermostats and a floor-heating control module that give every room or wing its own zone, coordinated through one building-level app. Facility teams schedule occupancy, monitor performance, and tune comfort across the building without per-room manual adjustment.
Quiet, all-electric comfort scaled from a home to a teaching building
Challenge
An owner electrifying an institutional building wanted the even, draft-free comfort of radiant floors across classrooms and offices, plus summer cooling, without a gas boiler, without forced-air noise in learning spaces, and without two separate mechanical systems competing for budget and ceiling space.
Solution
Working with our manufacturing partner network, the project used the all-electric waterless radiant platform: an inverter cold-climate air-source heat pump driving anti-corrosion copper capillary radiant floors for heating, with discreet near-silent air handlers for cooling and humidity, and per-room zoning controlled building-wide from one app.
Result
The building delivers even, all-electric radiant warmth in winter and quiet cooling in summer as one coordinated system, with independent zone control for occupancy schedules and specialty rooms — the same platform proven from single homes up to office and teaching-building scale.
All-electric — no gas boiler or on-site combustion
Air-source heat pump COP up to 4.6 for low operating energy
Cooling and humidity via air handlers at ~20 dB(A)
Proven from single rooms to building scale
Reference deployments span single homes through office and teaching buildings; specific names, brands, and locations are withheld.
690,000 sq ft installed
Radiant floor area installed
Up to 9.5 tons/unit
Capacity per outdoor unit
In service since ~2017
In service since
COP up to 4.6
Air-source heat pump efficiency
Frequently Asked Questions
It scales. The same waterless radiant platform that conditions a custom home has been deployed in a corporate office building, a multi-floor teaching building, and multi-unit residential communities. Even floor-up warmth, low fan energy, and reduced stratification are exactly what large open offices, classrooms, and quiet specialty spaces benefit from most, where forced-air systems tend to be noisy and uneven.
Cooling runs through discreet, near-silent indoor air handlers — not a chilled floor. The air handlers manage temperature and humidity together and operate at roughly 20 dB(A), so meeting rooms, classrooms, and open offices stay cool and quiet without condensation risk on floor surfaces. Heating is radiant from the floor; cooling and dehumidification are handled by the matched air handlers.
The air-source heat pump reaches a COP of up to 4.6, meaning it moves several units of heat for each unit of electricity rather than burning fuel one-for-one. Combined with radiant delivery's low fan energy and reduced stratification, and per-zone control that avoids conditioning empty wings, the platform targets meaningfully lower operating energy than combustion or all-air commercial systems.
The waterless design is a large part of the reliability case: with no water in the floor loop there is nothing to freeze-burst during an unoccupied break and nothing to leak into the structure. The anti-corrosion copper capillary network is built for longevity with braze-free, joint-minimized installation, and the platform has been in service since around 2017 with near-zero ongoing maintenance on the floor terminal.
Capabilities for Light-Commercial & Institutional
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