Sustainable feature #1 - Ondol/Underfloor Heating

Ondol

Have you heard about Ondol? This is the Korean traditional heating system. We also call it Gudeul. This is simply implying underfloor heating. This uses direct heat transfer from burned wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor. Korea still uses the innovated modern Ondol system to all kinds of residential buildings. Thus, Korea has very outstanding technique about a boiler for underfloor heating system. I want to adopt this boiler to 1100 trinity mills as sustainable feature because it can save energy and make better air quality.

Installing pipe lines under floor

Pave the pipe line

Korean common room with underfloor heating system

Modern underfloor heating system works by either hot water or electric heating. I want to adopt hot water heating system which are very popular in Korea. The water running under floor in pipe line heat the room.

Underfloor heating system has a lot of benefits to use in condos. First of all, it is energy efficiency. We can easily think this is more efficient than air conditioning system in the US because the heating energy from floor hot air rises. And, it can control the temperature by room and zone. It can save energy around 15% to 40%. 

Underfloor Heating System

And, it is good to control temperature individually by personal preference.  

This system has a positive effect on indoor air quality because it is essential to facilitate cold flooring materials such as concrete, tile, slate, terrazzo to adopt the underfloor heating system. Thus, this underfloor heating system could reduce the moisture content of a room. 

But, maintaining and installing is more expensive than other heating system because of installing pipeline under floor. 

Benefits

-save energy(efficiency)

-zoned heating control

-Asian preference

-air quality

* but installing and repairing price could be higher than other heating system.