Events Archive

12.16.2008
Steam and Hot Water Heating and Cooling Workshop

The Jordan Institute is excited to sponsor Henry Gifford for a Steam and Hot Water Heating and Cooling Workshop for large buildings. Henry has vast experience in New York City with large buildings over the last 25 years and we hope you will be able to attend this workshop and bring your toughest problems and most skeptical questions. The potential for energy savings in large buildings is significant and we want to help you take advantage of Henry’s vast experience. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, December 16th at 11am at the NH Audubon’s McLane Center. Please RSVP to Karen Forest.

 Steam and Hot Water Heating and Cooling Workshop 

By accident of geography, large buildings in New Hampshire are too few and far between to induce people to specialize in getting them to work well. Henry Gifford has spent his life making buildings energy efficient, and by accident of birth he specializes in large buildings, including those with 100 year old mechanical systems. Instead of moving our large buildings, The Jordan Institute is bringing Henry Gifford from New York City to New Hampshire, where he will work with building owners, contractors, school boards, and whoever else is interested in making large buildings energy efficient. 

The Jordan Institute will start by hosting a brief workshop on Tuesday, December 16th, and continue by making low cost, yet drastic improvements to the comfort and energy efficiency of a representative sample of buildings across the state. 

Topics discussed will include: 

• No more than 30 seconds on the need to do something about energy use. 
• Understanding the problem: Before now there have been good reasons to drive right past large buildings on the way to do work on making small buildings energy efficient:

            ·          Mechanical systems are more complicated

            ·          Controls are more complicated

            ·          The costs will be higher if things get worse

            ·          There are more people who will get mad at you if you create problems 

Leaving well enough alone used to be good enough, but times are changing quickly. The Jordan Institute will help you change with the times by creating an environment of support for both owners and contractors during the process of finally getting these buildings and their mechanical systems under control. Several buildings will be chosen as examples, and retrofitted by local contractors, with before and after fuel bills made public. The long term plan is to get enough of this work done while creating enough local experience to make it routine in New Hampshire, so that all too common problems caused by building size or age will become the exception. 

Discussion will include:

• The science behind why mechanical systems dominate the energy profile of some buildings, and the envelope (walls, windows, insulation, etc.) dominates the energy profile of other buildings. 
• Surprisingly easy ways to bring large and complicated steam heating systems under control. 
• A big-picture look at what really works to achieve deep reductions in a building’s actual energy use as measured by the utility bills.
   

“Don’t come if you want your future to depend on continued low energy prices.”  - Henry Gifford

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