Interest in geothermal heating and cooling systems has increased in the last five years. “With firms more cost-conscious, green initiatives receiving more media attention and tighter market conditions, business leaders have sought ways to decrease operating expenses across the board and some of them are turning to geothermal solutions for their climate control,” writes Pramod Dibble in the November 2013 issue of sister publication PM Engineer.
Located in Clarence, N.Y., Rivera Greens is the first certified National Association of Home Builders Green Standards Eco-Friendly Development in the state. When completed, the development will include 35 single-family homes built to an energy-efficiency standard unparalleled in Western New York.
As mentioned in previous columns, commercial building loans and their supporting activity are edging toward pre-recession levels. As of mid-year 2013, U.S. banks had issued just short of one trillion dollars in commercial real-estate loans, up almost 4% from a year earlier, according to official sources.
Climalife’s Greenway bio-based heat-transfer fluids offer unique technical properties such as excellent thermal stability at high temperature for solar thermal applications and low viscosity at low temperature for cooling applications.
November 18, 2013
Climalife’s Greenway bio-based heat-transfer fluids, developed with DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, offer unique technical properties such as excellent thermal stability at high temperature for solar thermal applications and low viscosity at low temperature for cooling applications.
NSF International recently certified Centennial Plastics’s CenFuse geothermal pipe to the American National Standard for Ground-Source Geothermal Piping Systems.
November 18, 2013
NSF International recently certified Centennial Plastics’s CenFuse geothermal pipe to the American National Standard for Ground-Source Geothermal Piping Systems – NSF/ANSI Standard 358-1: Polyethylene Pipe and Fittings for Water-Based Ground-Source “Geothermal” Heat Pump Systems.
Joe Wrenchturner gets a call to install solar water heating for a longtime customer. He buys some flat-plate collectors through an online source and decides to assemble the remainder of the system using hardware he installs for other hydronic systems.