Energy Compliance Auditor??

[tedanderson]

Originally Posted by theatre4jc

They started asking questions and making comments like "your dimmer room doesn't need to be set at 70* all the time" I was quick to point out that this person was a moron and once our church listened to what was suggested, yes we saved over $1,000 a month in energy costs, but we also have had constant condensation from our AC units and more units have failed from the constant up/down, on/off that the units endure now.

The principle to be learned here is that the most efficient method isn't always the smartest method.

I dealt with this problem in the IT industry where the maintenance facilities people didn't understand that certain types of equipment is required to be operating 24/7 even if it isn't being used. And then they also didn't understand that the server rooms had to be a little cooler than the temperature of most of the other rooms. Long story short, their efficiency plan saved the company $4000 a month in energy costs but it ended up costing close to $10,000 in lost productivity. Management learned this pretty quickly when they noticed that 500+ hourly employees were getting paid to wait for the systems to start.

[Les]

Thanks to all, especially for the regulation reference.

I hadn't heard of that that particular bill/regulation.

Although we did hear from the "Auditor" today and our walls have to be R-13 carried all the way to ceiling (the walls are only halfway up now, so they have to be extended to open the ceiling). But the ceiling coating that is existing is being rated as R-4, which is acceptable and will meet the code!

Can you believe that? R-4 meets the requirement. I personally think it should be a minimum of R-19 and that's what we were looking at doing. heck, my house has R-38 in the ceiling... My garage doors are R-5!

Typical of the gov't to enact some silly and basically useless regulations.

But, if may be all for nothing as the parking lot may kill the project. We have to have so many paved spaces and that cost is enormous.