Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Energy Efficient Schools – Good Sense and Good Politics?
In the late 1990’s after my bride and I had put a stucco addition on our home, I discovered a company called Solarcrete. I wish I had discovered it before.
When I set up state government’s purchasing of natural gas from the wellhead, rather than from various gas companies in 1996 or 1997, the price was 20-some cents per therm. My October NICOR bill was $1.125 per therm.
Clearly heating costs are going to be a growing part of every school district’s budget.
I can’t remember how I found about Solarcrete, but its president, Pete Konopka, educated me well. (The firm is located in Union with a mailing address in Huntley.)
He told me that two—maybe three now—superintendents ago in Huntley, the school superintendent complained to him of heating costs. Konpoka told him of how his construction system could make new schools so much more energy efficient.
From the schools constructed since Huntley and Lake in the Hills populations skyrocketed, one would assume that more recent school superintendents were not as concerned about energy efficiency as the man Konpoka talked with.
Here’s what the firm does that traditional designers and builders of schools don’t.
Get the answer to this question and see heat losses for various types of constuction by clicking here.
When I set up state government’s purchasing of natural gas from the wellhead, rather than from various gas companies in 1996 or 1997, the price was 20-some cents per therm. My October NICOR bill was $1.125 per therm.
Clearly heating costs are going to be a growing part of every school district’s budget.
I can’t remember how I found about Solarcrete, but its president, Pete Konopka, educated me well. (The firm is located in Union with a mailing address in Huntley.)
He told me that two—maybe three now—superintendents ago in Huntley, the school superintendent complained to him of heating costs. Konpoka told him of how his construction system could make new schools so much more energy efficient.
From the schools constructed since Huntley and Lake in the Hills populations skyrocketed, one would assume that more recent school superintendents were not as concerned about energy efficiency as the man Konpoka talked with.
Here’s what the firm does that traditional designers and builders of schools don’t.
Get the answer to this question and see heat losses for various types of constuction by clicking here.
Labels: Energy Efficiency, Pete Konopka, SolarCrete
