Radiative heating experiments

On the subject of promoting the use of radiative heating in historic buildings and particularly in historic churches, the heating concept developed in the previous EU project Friendly Heating was revisited within the Climate for Culture project. A series of laboratory tests was especially performed to assess the 3D heat efficiency distribution of several Friendly Heating heaters with different heat sources, power consumption, geometric shape and dimensions . This heating concept was developed within the Friendly Heating project (2002-2005) with the objective of devising the best heating strategy with a compromise between the comfort of visitors and conservation needs.