Earth Day Action: Big and Small Changes to Decrease Your Carbon Footprint at Home

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Earth Day Action: Big and Small Changes to Decrease Your Carbon Footprint at Home

So, while the debate rages on regarding whether there is anything we can do individually to impact climate change, I’m going to write this blog with the assumption that what we do as individuals can help the planet by making changes in our home. Many or our customers are already super committed to reducing their carbon footprint, so I’m mostly singing to the choir. However, since we all eat and need clean clothes, I thought I’d focus on these two areas for this year’s Earth Day blog post.

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Using SANCO2 in Multi-Family Buildings to Get off Gas

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Using SANCO2 in Multi-Family Buildings to Get off Gas

Multifamily domestic hot water design need not be a complicated or expensive array of water heaters for each residence. A tidy and efficient design can be provided by a centralized heat pump system. To best achieve this, enter the SANCO2 hot water heat pump. These two-component systems can be used as building blocks of a much larger central DHW plant. The SANCO2 also boasts increased efficiency over electric heating element tanks, and lower global warming potential than natural gas and even other heat pump water heaters. Using a centralized DHW plant design, rather than individual units for each residence, the cost is spread out while still providing steady hot water to residents. Consider meeting new energy codes with a centralized hot water heat pump system that provides higher energy efficiency and a carbon free heating system.

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Using a Change Model to Better Gauge Customer Readiness for Change

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Using a Change Model to Better Gauge Customer Readiness for Change

If you’re an architect or a high-performance builder, you may not think that you have much in common with behavioral health professionals, but in certain cases you’re doing the same work that we do: getting people to change their behavior.  If you’re one of the lucky architect/builders who only gets clients who are 100% motivated to build energy-efficient homes, this isn’t the article for you.  If you find yourself frustrated and unsure why a client who seemed really motivated just disappeared, this article might be worth a read.

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