The elimination of bulky radiators and their associated covers helps reduce bumps and falls, and the simplified pipework and controls helps to keep maintenance costs down and reliability up. Similarly with respect to classroom versatility, setting the heating into the floor as with underfloor heating not only creates a long term risk of failure, but also prevents the internal layout of the building envelope being redeveloped as the heating pattern is literally in stone.
ThermaSkirt has been specified in School projects across the UK and indeed recently in Osterburg, Germany.
