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Energy Recovery Ventilator (Also known as Enthalpy Recovery Ventilator) VS. Heat Recovery Ventilator. Casey reviews how they work, covers their differences and suggests which one you might need - or may already have
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Ben Adam-Smith worked in TV and radio for 15 years. With a growing concern about the environment, he wanted to play his part in looking for solutions. As our homes are probably the biggest part of our carbon footprint he started there. He set up a podcast called House Planning Help and documented what he learnt as he went about his own Passivhaus project. A decade on and his website is going from strength to strength. He also launched a membership community called The Hub to help others who want to build high performance, low carbon homes. Ben is passionate about the environment and believes with wise decisions about how we live our lives we can all make a difference.
You can find more from Ben here:
00:50 introduction 3:45 Sites near london 6:16 embodied carbon, concrete and steel 8:05 pollution and extinction, extreme weather 10:33 other ways to reduce footprint 12:05 flying 16:00 more government incentives 17:05 victorian building being brought up to passive house system 19:50 what did you learn from building the passive house 27:50 gas boiler - radiators 28:55 ventilation system 35:00 we can’t make last minute decisions
Art of Construction (Devon Tilly)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/devon-tilly-5a407a20/ provides business, sales, and marketing strategies to the building industry through the mediums of podcasting, video, webinars, live events, and built projects. We are a global network of contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, designers, skilled tradespeople, scientists, technology experts, owners, entrepreneurs, and visionaries dedicated to learning, growing, and pioneering the best way forward for the construction industry and our planet The Conscious Builder Website: www.theconsciousbuilder.com The Conscious Builder on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeThir3L7kgmChWyHnKBWVw The Conscious Builder on Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_conscious_builder/ 3:30 supply shortage 6:45 window expectations today 10:00 new technologies - fireside chats, building the IT house, humanizing the process 14:00 windows - what makes a good window 22:00 best kind of framing 26:00 test study 29:00 modular pre-fab 34:14 still cheaper to go custom than pre-panel 35:30 communication - blue collar warriors 39:45 art of construction podcast Janice Ashworth - Project Manager at City of Ottawa Climate Change Unit Janice has been a tireless advocate of community-owned power for more than decade. She played an important role in developing 17 solar power projects in Eastern Ontario with a total generating capacity of 1.7 MW. She has been with the Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-op since 2011 and has 10 years of experience in renewable energy. At OREC, she is responsible for business development, project management, and financing. Janice Chairs the Ontario Federation of Community Power Co-operatives, is a member of the Sustainability Committee of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, and sits on the Net Metering Working Group of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association. She coordinated the Nova Scotia Sustainable Electricity Alliance and worked in wind energy with the community-owned Colchester-Cumberland Windfield. Her non-profit experience includes community organizing for Ecology Ottawa and promoting solar energy with the Ecology Action Centre. In her time as General Manager of OREC, Janice has been named as a 40 Under 40 business leader by the Ottawa Business Journal, and was awarded the 2017 Solar Woman of Distinction by Women in Renewable Energy. We touch on: -Community owned power and why it works -Energy co-ops -Farm co-ops -Climate refugees -New interest-free loan program launching Oct 25th!
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Roy's Website: http://rndconstruction.ca/
Chris's Website: https://ecogenenergyandbuild.ca/ GOHBA's Website: https://www.ohba.ca/members/gohba-eo/ Special thanks to the other panelists and SMARTNet Alliance for having us SMARTNet Alliance Website: https://smartnetalliance.ca/ Episode 166: Everything You Need to Know About Geo-Thermal with Wyatt Roberts from Dandelion Energy9/24/2021
In this episode we focus on geo-thermal - the upfront cost, the long term costs, the types of buildings that geo-thermal can provide the most value in, and so much more.
Wyatt Roberts is the Director of Pre Construction for Dandelion Energy, the nation’s leading home geothermal company offering heating and cooling solutions for the 21st century. Dandelion’s state of the art heat pump system combines wifi enabled monitoring and secure cloud storage creating a smarter, more responsive, and more innovative approach than any other heating/cooling system on the market. Wyatt is a veteran in the building industry, and prior to joining Dandelion, he specialized in high-performance home construction in upstate New York.
Dr. John Demartini is a world-renowned specialist in human behaviour, a researcher, author, and global educator. He has authored 40 books that have been translated into 39 different languages and has shared the stage with some of the world’s most influential people. Dr. Demartini has studied over 299 academic disciplines throughout the past 48 years. A global educator, he is the founder of the Demartini Institute that has helped thousands of people around the world transform their life according to their highest values and create their “life masterpiece.”
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