SUSTAINABLE CITIES

BC Insulators’ Bob Barter and Neil Munro made a presentation to the Sustainable City Advisory Committee of the City of Burnaby on June 7, promoting the use of proper Mechanical Insulation and illustrating heat loss through the use of a thermal imaging camera and 3e Plus software.  Committee members were impressed and called the presentation “very informative” – and the information has been sent on to Burnaby staff to review.  We look forward to further discussions with the city to help them meet their sustainability goals.

We are scheduling more appearances before city councils throughout the province.

Local 118 is also working on the language for three resolutions to be presented to the Union of BC Municipalities conference in September, where city mayors and councillors gather to discuss and debate policies.  Our resolutions involve: Building Commissioning; Building Labelling; and Benchmarking.

ENERGY AUDITS MORE AVAILABLE

Justin Teskey and Riley Feser-Gray from the BC Insulators attended the Certified Insulation Energy Appraiser course hosted in Edmonton by Insulators Union Local 110 and the I Save team. Both members are now Certified Appraisers and will be included on future Audits that Salamander Inspections conducts. BC Insulators now have five Energy Appraisers available to conduct Audits and use thermal cameras and the 3ePlus software that generates the reports.

NET ZERO BUILDINGS

Teskey and  Munro also attended the Building Lasting Change Conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre. The conference was very interesting and focused on Net Zero Buildings. To achieve Net Zero buildings will have increased attention to building envelope, ventilation strategies and onsite energy generation (solar, wind and Biomass). Buildings will also have new targets including Total Energy Use Intensity, Thermal energy Demand Intensity, GHG Intensity Targets.

This will include building commissioning that ensures that buildings are constructed and operated properly.

GLOBE 2016 Vancouver is on March 2 to 4 and the BC Insulators will be there at the Innovation Expo!

GLOBE 2016 – The Leadership Summit for Sustainable Business – is one of Canada’s biggest and best known environmental events.

The BC Insulators will have a booth at the Expo to provide information about mechanical insulation, energy conservation and efficiency to the more than 1,600 people attending.

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!

As you all know we have been tirelessly working on having mechanical insulation the talk of the town. So this Year we are kicking off at BuildEx Vancouver were we will engage those in attendance on the need for mechanical insulation and the inspection of the installation process that will see consumers receive value for money spent. Come and join us

FREE PASSES email me at ljohnson@insulators118.org

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The BC Insulators will be in Calgary to speak with industry professionals about mechanical insulation HVAC Systems and Equipment
Mechanical Insulation—A New Approach to an Overlooked Problem
Bud Fraser, P.Eng.1, Micah Lang2 and Jeff Besant, P.Eng.3, (1)Golder Associates, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Golder Associates (formely HB Lanarc), Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)Besant and Associates Engineers, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mechanical insulation is a critical element of the design, operation, maintenance and safety characteristics of mechanical systems. Because of the importance of these systems, there are established standards and guidelines in place. Yet, we have found through research and interviews that mechanical insulation is often poorly managed on job sites and throughout of the life of mechanical systems. Through these efforts, we identified some of the reasons why mechanical insulation systems are often not installed properly and we have recommended solutions for these problems. Further, we have provided empirical evidence that buttresses the justification for the proper application and maintenance of insulation systems in terms of energy, service life and maintenance savings.
Our purpose is to provide information that will lead to an ultimate goal of having every section of pipe, duct and mechanical equipment insulated correctly. We have structured our documents in a top down definition system that can work in conjunction with existing standards and specification systems. We define assemblies through performance starting at a concept level then progressively refine the information, ultimately describing specific products and application methods. We developed a tool which owners, property managers, engineers, designers and capital planners can use to help make timely and effective decisions about their insulation needs, and what upgrades may be required to optimize the application of their mechanical insulation systems. At a meta level, we found
methods for engineers to communicate complex technical information to lay people with enough content and detail so that they can make informed decisions. We incorporated these methods into our tools. Developing effective communication strategies is a challenge that all engineers encounter at various times in their career.