This case study discusses about the Eastern Dakota Housing Alliance, which has completed 8 of 20 planned multi-family and single-family dwellings on Selkirk Circle in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Four twin-home duplex units were completed in March of 2003 Phase I and four more identical units were completed in February...
This durable exterior wall cladding system is designed to passively draw in fresh air, solar heat it, and circulate to the house interior. This creates an energy-efficient, well-ventilated indoor environment. In cold climates, well-insulated, tight exterior envelopes are used to achieve energy efficiency. In such cases, bringing in make-up air...
Drainwater heat recovery DHR devices fit into existing waste drain lines from showers and bathtubs to capture heat from the drainwater to preheat cold water going to other showers or a water heater. DHR systems reduce the energy needed to heat water and increase the capacity of water heaters. There...
The Unico System is a high-velocity cooling system with small, flexible ducts. Unico has been manufacturing this type of cooling system since 1984. In fact, Norm, Steve, and Rich all have the system in their own homes. Conventional air conditioning often leaves the house with hot and cold spots, as...
To build an AC system that can dehumidify properly, you need a really good heat exchanger, which first made me think of heat pipes. Using no energy, heat pipes perform an almost impossible task: they passively transfer massive amounts of heat from the warm return air and uses it to...
The basic idea behind Munters PreCooler technology is the increase of the combustion air density by reduction of the combustion air temperature - through adiabatic cooling. The PreCooler Systems are equipped with high efficiency cooling media, either CELdek evaporative cooling pad or the non-flammable GLASdek evaporative cooling pad. The water...
Surrounded by picturesque mountains in scenic Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Lake City High School connects to the environment through its GeoExchange geothermal heating and cooling system. They feel their new GeoExchange system was the most environmentally friendly heating and cooling system choice. The result included improved ventilation rates, cold weather, and...
Many commercial and industrial buildings need to have high ventilation rates to ensure adequate indoor air quality. However, heating all that fresh air can be very expensive. Now an elegantly simple technology is available to use solar energy to preheat ventilation air and dramatically reduce energy use and expenditures. Transpired...
With both "real world" cappuccino experience and academic expertise, McGregor has been delving into foaming and frothing issues for years. He and his colleagues are currently exploring how milk's fatty acid composition?achieved either via different lactation stages within cows or varying animal feed?can affect frothing. For the just-right foam, you've...
During the winter months, endangered manatees and other sea creatures utilize the warm water of a Utility's discharge canal as a shelter. This particular Utility Plant's boiler was down for maintenance. The discharge canal's normal winter shelter has now become dangerously chilled due to unusually cold weather. Concerned for the...
As more homeowners remodel their kitchens with comfort and the environment in mind and buyers of new homes grow more particular about the amenities they want, especially in the kitchen, many are choosing radiant floor heating systems beneath their tile, laminates, wood, and concrete to keep toasty. The National Association...
The Pearl District is a venerable, industrial core that runs east-west across town from the prospering center of Portland, Oregon. Most of its buildings are aged, run-down concrete-block warehouse buildings of three to six stories. Yet quite a few exhibit enough architectural distinction to attract a more varied and modern...
A unique product requires specialized handling at Dippin' Dots' Paducah, Ky., plant. On the ingredient list at Dippin' Dots: Ice cream mix, 41,000 gallons, Liquid nitrogen, 172,000 gallons. Oreo cookie crumbs, about 4 tons. That's just some of what goes into the weekly output of those unique flash-frozen beads of...
The paper reveals about the use of food product in a variety of applications from pasta to snacks, hot and cold cereals to chips, breadsticks, flatbread and pizza dough to bread, muffins to cookies and even hand-held pastries. The application options are endless. Protein and carb levels are a factor...
Nancy's is a manufacturer and distributor of gourmet food products, producing more than 35 tons daily. Nancy's uses a bar code-based inventory management system to track finished products and ingredients as forklift drivers move products and ingredients to and from the production and storage areas. The bar code scanners often...
Most salespeople treat the cold call the same way as the actor's cold reading. And that's the problem. The actor has an excuse. There really isn't any way for the actor to know what to expect. There is no excuse, however, for the salesperson. The salesperson has methods available for...
Whether you're on the road making sales calls or in the office making cold calls, you probably spend more time than you like writing proposals or generating sales reports. After all, time spent on paperwork is time not spent engaging potential customers. So with the goal being to gain time...
Use this template, targeted scripts to increase the success rate of sales cold calls. Each of the three can be easily modified to meet the needs of your organization.
Many sales professionals dread cold calling. And that dread, unfortunately, makes them ineffective when they pick up the phone to make the calls. If you're not careful, you can end up in a cycle, where your fear of cold calling creates more failure, making you hate it even...
Most people who still use the traditional cold calling mindset look at voicemail as a dead end. They say to themselves, "Oh well, I may as well leave a message and hope he calls me back." This almost never happens, and we know it. But we're often so relieved not...
