Engineer Jeff Stroh and Aguirre Roden provided Homewood Suites by Hilton a design with traditional copper and steel pipe with the option to evaluate the system with PEX tubing. Stroh and the building owners selected Uponor’s PEX-a tubing for the plumbing, radiant heating and cooling, hydronic distribution and pre-insulated pipe systems. Steel pipe also is a part of the design at certain junctures.

“Once we hit each floor we allow the chilled water supply and return lines to be PEX. From the risers they transition into PEX and go to all the rooms. “Each fan coil was allowed to be PEX as was the domestic water distribution.”

The Homewood Suites by Hilton in Dallas is a 85-room hotel featuring the amenities needed for occupants, including three apartments that can be rented out long-term. Inset: Jeff Stroh, P.E., with Dallas-based firm Aguirre Roden, designed the plumbing and mechanical systems that converted a nearly 100-year-old building into a modern hotel.