The 19th century Shafer House in Moab, Utah | Utah State Historical Society got an infrared energy audit and blower door test recently. This is the home of the Youth Garden Project a 501c non-profit organization. The energy audit was performed at no cost.
11/22/2010
One building at a time, visitors centers, headquarters buildings, maintenance shops, historic buildings and park residences. We have discovered hundreds of ways to tighten up these buildings and save $thousands$.
11/14/2010
More and more of our commercial real estate inspections are now including fast food restaurants that have closed in this economic down turn. One transaction this spring was a chain of franchise units that were sold individually. The building was "as is" when we inspected them (minus the food) and
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11/13/2010
While doing energy audits for National Park Service Buildings, sometimes we take out equipment outdoors.
11/10/2010
I wonder if anyone knows any art collectors than can put a value on old EO Goldebeck signed photographs. I have several and I'm attaching 2 that I photographed through the glass frame, I don't want to dissasemble the frames, put you can get an idea of what they look like.
11/09/2010
We performed energy audits on five different multi screen movie theaters last week in Utah County, UT. These were medium size (4-8 screen) around 25,000- 40,000 square foot buildings. There was one thing in common with 4 of the 5. No Makeup Air!! These cinemas were using the Christie Xenon proj
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11/08/2010
The Rinnai Tankless Water Heater Revisited - I blogged about these units 2 years ago when the jury was still out. Well now the jury is in, and I am no longer a skeptic. They really work and they work really well. I saw them all over England and Europe a few years ago, then they appeared at the co
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11/08/2010
150,000 is the monthly job growth we need to stabilize unemployment. The US needs around 200,000 new jobs a month just to start a slight recovery and a return of the 15 million unemployed back to work. Even if we managed to get to a level of 235,000 new jobs per month - that would take 51 months
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11/07/2010
Our recent energy audits on movie theaters for a chain of MegaPlex Theaters operators are proving to impact their bottom line in a positive way. At one 24,000 sq ft multi screen complex in Colorado the reduction in winter time heating costs are nearly 50%. By utilizing the extremely high volume T
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11/06/2010