U.S. Air Force installs Viega ProRadiant ™ mat system McGuire Air Force Base in southern New Jersey built a new 70,000-square-foot airplane hangar complete with a 1 / 2" Viega ProRadiant ™ mat system. C Pyramid Enterprises of Trenton, NJ, started building the new hanger in January and is confident that the project will be finished on time. The McGuire Air Force Base project marks the first time C Pyramid Enterprises installed Viega mats but it probably won’t be the last. Eric Van Cleaf, Quality Control Manager for C Pyramid Enterprises, installed a different radiant system on their last project. “The mats cut our installation time by at least a third,” Van Cleaf said. “Three or four people have been working on installing it. Labor means a lot to us on a job like this, even more so than the cost of material, and we saved a lot of labor.” Van Cleaf has been completing government contracts for C Pyramid Enterprises for more than 20 years. One of Viega’s sales reps introduced him to the mats. “He got me on the right page and told me there’s a product here you might want to look into,” Van Cleaf said. “I looked at the video and I was sold on it.” Viega believes in quality and it is our approach to design and customer service that distinguishes us in the radiant heating and cooling industry. Van Cleaf has been especially pleased with the customer service he has received from Viega. While the mat’s ease of installation was definitely the deciding factor in choosing to install it for this project, Van Cleaf stated that discovering the quality of Viega customer service was “a pleasant surprise.” “Every step of the way, they’ve helped out,” Van Cleaf said. “The first design didn’t go well because the architects had to move some things around. Viega actually redesigned the whole thing, even the placement of the manifolds. They worked hand in hand with the architects.” C Pyramid Enterprises is also using Viega ProPress to connect the mats to the 29 manifolds in the airplane hangar. At the end of CUSTOMER: McGuire Air Force Base APPLICATION: Radiant system LOCATION: Southern New Jersey CONTRACTOR: C Pyramid Enterprises The mats cut our installation time by at least a third. Labor means a lot to us on a job like this, even more so than the cost of material. “ ”