Brochure

Taco, Inc., 1160 Cranston Street, Cranston, RI 02920 / [phone] / Fax [phone]
Taco (Canada) Ltd., 8450 Lawson Road, Unit#3, Milton, Ontario L9T 0J8 / [phone] / Fax [phone]
www.TacoComfort.com
©Taco Catalog # 300-9.4
Supersedes: 03/16/15
Effective Date: 08/05/15
The Taco Innovation & Development Center
A few years ago, John Hazen White, Jr. set out to build the
most advanced learning facility in the industry, one that
would train and inspire generations. The 20,000 sq. ft.,
$22 million Taco Innovation and Development Center (IDC)
was born and dedicated in June of 2012 to Taco’s
employees and the HVAC industry.
State of the art classrooms
The IDC’s expansive classrooms are equipped with
advanced multi-media hardware. From a simple
PowerPoint® presentation to a live streaming webinar,
each classroom can deliver visual content to class
attendees in the building or on the Internet.
Classrooms are exible to hold classes of any size.
Green Building comfort
The entire building’s comfort system was designed by
some of the brightest minds in HVAC engineering using
Taco’s Hydronic System Solutions® software. The software
also helped size the IDC’s pipe and equipment, calculate
total loads and ows, and generate schedules. Award-
winning LoadMatch® single pipe and LOFlo® radiant
cooling systems were installed as real-time demonstration
of the energy savings, reliability, and comfort so essential
for LEED Green Building certication. System components
can be seen in action throughout the building, thanks to
viewing panels in walls, ceilings, and oors making the
IDC a hands-on “living lab”.
The incredible mechanical room
The IDC’s mechanical room is a marvel of hydronic
technology, featuring energy ecient boilers and chillers,
variable speed pumping, geothermal and energy
recovery systems, solar heating systems, all controlled
by an iWorx® building management system. Workhorse
FloPro®Team Trainers John Barba and Dave Holdorf hold training
sessions on a regular basis at the IDC and on-line at FloPro Univesity.
Commercial Trainer Greg Cunnif (below center) and Rich Medeirois
(below right) also hold training sessions at the IDC.
TC and TA pumps, vertically aligned KV and KS pumps,
variable speed drives, solar pumping stations, heat
exchangers, and air-dirt separators are all working displays,
managing the comfort of the entire Taco facility. In this
room, visitors can see how everything goes together in
the most advanced hydronic facility in the industry.