The BC Insulators will be at the 2016 BUILDEX Vancouver Conference on February 24 & 25 to promote energy conservation through mechanical insulation to the industry, government and consumers.

The BC Insulators booth will be on the trade show floor – #435 – and staffed with knowledgeable members who will make new connections among the 14,000 attendees expected.

BUILDEX Vancouver is Western Canada’s largest tradeshow and conference for the Construction, Renovation, Architecture, Interior Design and Property Management industries.

Held annually, BUILDEX has over 600 exhibits, and more than 70 educational seminars.

The are a limited number of free tickets for anyone interested in attending the Trade Show – please contact the BC Insulators office to arrange your ticket.

The BC Insulators will have a booth to promote mechanical insulation at the annual BUILDEX Vancouver 2015 – Western Canada’s largest conference and tradeshow for construction, renovation and related work.

The conference takes place at the Vancouver Convention Centre – West on February 25 & 26, 2015.  The are a limited number of free tickets for anyone interested in attending the Trade Show – please contact the BC Insulators office to arrange your ticket.

There are over 600 exhibits on the trade show floor, which is open from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm  February 25th and 9:30 am to 4:00 pm on February 26, 2015.  You can check out the details at the exhibitors’ list.

Presentations at Vancouver’s Hyatt Regency Hotel included sessions on the New Energy Provisions in the BC Building Code, Deep Energy Retrofits for existing buildings, the new Telus Gardens Building and New Lessons on Sustainability.

There were some interesting presentations and the BC Insulators made some more excellent contacts with key people in the green building sector.

Be sure to check out the SustainaBuild Conference next year!

The BC Insulators will be at the Canada Green Building Council Expo and Conference in Toronto from June 2 to 4 – spreading the message about the 1% Solution – Mechanical Insulation.

The 2014 Conference theme is Building Lasting Change – Exploring the Value of Green Building.

The BC Insulators will share a booth with the Insulators union Local 95 from Ontario – come by and say hello if you are there.

According to Conference organizers, this year’s program will address new information on the business case and performance of green buildings, but also embrace the broader value proposition of building green. Going beyond the operational savings, the focus will be on emerging benefits that are now becoming better understood such as:

• Enhanced health and well-being;
• Tenant attraction and retention; and
• Innovation and job growth with linkages to enhancing corporate social responsibility, shareholder value, environmental quality, livability and international trade.

The conference is Canada’s largest green building event,

The BC Insulators will be front and centre at the GLOBE 2014 Conference in Vancouver from March 26 to 28 at the new Vancouver Convention Centre.

GLOBE is known as “the quintessential gathering of global senior business and government representatives who meet to network and to advance the issues at the nexus of global business and sustainability agendas.”

And with speakers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., you can count on GLOBE 2014 getting a lot of attention from thousands of delegates.

The BC Insulators have an exhibitors booth at Globe 2014 – visit us at Booth Number 1103 on the Trade Fair Floor, near the large Province of British Columbia booth on the north side, centre of the hall.

And if you mention you saw this on our blog, we’ll give you a free 1% Solution coffee mug, while quantities last.

See you there!

This  Energy Panel discussion is happening on Thursday, March 20th, from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. in downtown Vancouver.

Come and hear from an impressive panel of experts in the energy management field in BC

And there will be a prize draw of one programmable thermostat (value of $100) donated by BC Comfort!

This event is free for Green Chamber of Commerce BC members, $10 online for non-members who book online or $15 at the door.

The three panelists for this informative event are:

Christine VanDerwill, Client Relations Manager

Climate Smart Businesses

Christine leads the business engagement team at Climate Smart Business, a Vancouver-based social enterprise.

Ida Keung, Business Energy Advisor

Building Owners and Managers Association of BC (BOMA BC)

Ida Keung is the Business Energy Advisor at the Building Owners and Managers Association of BC (BOMA BC).

Rod Giltaca, Energy Services Advisor

BC Comfort Air Conditioning Limited

Mr. Giltaca has been a member of the building automation community for 24 years. Rod has fulfilled roles in project management, contract sales, national business development and technology development.

The Green Chamber of Commerce BC thanks the BC Insulators – your Energy Conservation Specialists – for sponsoring  pizza & wine at the event, and the Mechanical Contractors Association of BC for all their administrative support!

We wanted to let you know that a free update is now available online for the 3E Plus Insulation Thickness Computer Program.

The new build has the following features:

* The program will now perform calculation on fixed insulation thicknesses greater than 10”

* Fixed a bug which added duplicates of custom insulation and jacketing materials when closing and reopening the program

* Fixed a bug where when opening jobs saved in SI mode the program reverted to IP units

* Fixed a bug where the program was changing pipe and tube sizes after performing calculations on ½” NPS and ¼” CTS materials

* Fixed other minor bugs

Thank you for your continued interest in 3E Plus.

the link for the download page is: Here

3E Plus User Guide  Download Here

Free Insulation Thickness Computer Program

The 3E Plus^® Insulation Thickness Computer Program is an industrial energy management tool developed by the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA) to simplify the task of determining how much insulation is necessary to use less energy, reduce plant emissions and improve system process efficiency.

The 3E Plus program can:

• Calculate the thermal performance of both insulated and uninsulated piping, ducts and equipment
• Translate Btu losses into actual dollars
• Calculate greenhouse gas emission and reductions

Click here for specific program features

Designed for facility managers, energy & environmental managers, industrial process engineers, and industrial plant managers, the program is a valuable tool for determining the return on investment of an insulation upgrade on pipes, ducts, tanks, and boilers.

What’s New

The latest version of 3E Plus (Version 4.1) features:

• Runs on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7
• All calculations involving money or economics, such as the Cost of Energy calculations are now in the ECONOMICS section.
• Able to retain user installed data when updating the program
• Simple payback calculations
• New user interface
• Automatically calculates thickness tables
• Improved report formats
• Calculates in both metric and inch-pound units
• Ability to add custom fuels
• Calculates multiple insulation layers
• Updated thermal curves and new insulation materials

Click here for more program details and calculation features.

Click here if you are already a 3E Plus User (Versions prior to 4.0)

Program software can be downloaded for FREE from this site

The BC Insulators will be in Portland with TIAC Thermal Insulation Association of Canada at Living Future 2012, they have invite, the green building movement’s leading thinkers and practitioners, to take a moment and consider how you can inspire girls to become tomorrow’s leaders of our built environment. Your support, your voice, your action and your awareness.