‘Green Streaming’
To help facilitate the interactive session Green Streaming: Winning Support for Building Green at GreenBuild, posts to this section of the website will focus on forming green building coalitions and overcoming objections to new design/construction practices.So, what’s your experience reaching out beyond the core design team?
- Input is valuable and improves the overall project.
- It’s more expensive and takes more time.
- Advocacy groups want too much and aren’t willing to put their money where their mouth is.
- I know more than they do.
- The client won’t pay for it.
- We’re too busy to start asking for input. The project’s already designed.
- The only way green building will become standard practice is if we seek input from the masses.
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The blueprint for survival has not only been written; it’s simple too.
Our problem is that, simply, we are taking way too many tons of otherwise cold objects (coal, oil, gas, wood, trash, biofuels) and converting them into way too hot gasses, in too realatively short a period of time.
And we didn’t respond to this soon enough…
So,
We simply go back in time, to an easier life, when heating AND cooling came from water sourced heat pumps.
And no ICE (internal combustion engine) could ever beat an EM(electric motor) in a race.
ICEs still can’t beat EMs in a race.
Then, upon switching our systems back to the good ones, we will find ourselves in full control of our atmosphere.
As this blog deals with buildings, you need to pay attention to the HVACR systems; and get those water source heat pumps in place. They have a major role to play here, in that they are the mechanisms that will allow us to pull this residual heat back out of our atmosphere: and put it into the ground from whence it came.
As with any other competetively styled market: you need to talk to the installers of these systems. ie, asking Bill Gates how to optimise your MAC video settings is just a fruitless endeavour. The HVAC and Refrigeration industries are amongst the largest on Earth, and globally there are hundreds of thousands of installers capable of installing and servicing water source heat pumps.
And, why on Earth any professed building professional does not have a working relationship with someone who understands refrigeration: is beyond me,
but here we are……
by David Cardill
on 11. Oct, 2006
Thanks David. So how best to reach out to those responsible for choosing the equipment in the building? How can we educate, cajole, force, incentivize, etc. Practices need to change, but first comes a change in mindsets.
by Jeff
on 11. Oct, 2006