Performing energy audits on the aging high school buildings in Salt Lake City, Utah we are noticing a common issue with the front entry doors. Most of these doors and door panel assemblies are often over 50 years old. The windows are single pane and the doors are hollow core steel, which is not i
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09/22/2010
The last few energy audits of community rec or recreational centers in Salt Lake City unveiled a similar problem. The exit doors with panic hardware all showed signs of air infiltration around the door frames. These frames were never sealed properly when installed. The other common problem was wi
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09/22/2010
During the last few energy audits of older high school gymnasiums in small towns of Utah, we noticed a great opportunity for weatherization retrofits. Old walls of brick and cinder block are porous and a simple exterior coating of epoxy would seal and weatherproof the exterior. We also noticed a
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09/21/2010
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09/21/2010
Recently we find ourselves doing more and more energy audits on library buildings in small rural towns and local municipalities of Utah. Most of these buildings were older school buildings or former municipal buildings. These older buildings have not been upgraded or retrofitted with newer window
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09/21/2010
Recently we are seeing an uptick in the number of volunteer fire departments requesting energy audits. Most volunteer fire departments are operating on limited budgets, which is good because most of the buildings we test require low cost fixes to lower their utility costs. Things like adding weat
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09/20/2010
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09/20/2010
Just got back from a quick trip to Sam's Club in South Jordan, UT and the artificial Christmas trees are already on display, along with wrapping paper, house lights and cards. I understood the snowblowers on display 3 weeks earlier at Lowes as we sometimes get snow in late September. But it's not
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09/19/2010
A $41,000 grant to collect DNA samples for museums of bobwhite species occuring in Mexico. That goes along with the $111 million in stimulas money that saved 55 jobs in Los Angeles - let's see that works out to just about $2,000,000.00 per job, that even beats the city manager in Bell, CA. And th
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09/17/2010
The Senate just finally passed 61-38 the long delayed mini-TARP II stimulus to help small business owners, providing small community banks with money. Just like TARP 1, most small banks do not want the federal money because of all the restrictions and mandates attached. Most small businesses have
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09/16/2010