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The Tri-County Regional Energy Network (3C-REN) will be hosting a public forum on Thursday, August 22, that will address significant changes in the upcoming 2019 Title 24, Part 6 Energy Code and the rationale behind them.
The forum includes guest speaker Brian Selby of Selby Energy, Inc. as well as a panel of professionals from our local government, design, and construction sectors.
If you’ve been working on new projects over 10,000 SF, or LEED projects of any size, you’ve come across commissioning of energy-related systems. Commissioning (Cx) is a great process to verify that all the building systems work as intended, but if you’re used to waiting until construction to get started, you’ll need to adjust your process – all the way back to schematic design.
We’re a fairly handy crew here at In Balance, so when Mike Horgan – licensed contractor and Passive House consultant – recently joined our ranks, we put him right to work … on our own office. While our work spaces enjoy plenty of daylight, on cloudy winter days and toward the back of the office, we can use a little boost. Recently, some of the lamps finally died, so we decided to replace them (and the rest of our fixtures) with LEDs.
