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Greetings One & All!
Past News Letters
June 2005
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
What a Month!
Calgary to Boston, to New York to Washington to Toronto to
Niagara Falls to Toronto to Kingston to Kitchener to Toronto to
Calgary...it was great meeting all the new faces and seeing old
friends.
Special Thanks
On October 5th
Dan Holohan, John Barba and yours truly,
along with Joe W from JV Mechanical, the folks
from the Portland Group and a room full of great contractors
raised $20,000 for the AVON Walk for Breast Cancer.
Thanks Mr. Tim Doran from Wirsbo for coming up
with the idea.
Way to go guys!
Click Here to See What's New With Barbara.
Quotable Quotes
"The hospital's physician CEO, Dr. Steven M.
Altschuler, wanted to create an environment that would provide
an ideal patient experience," says project manager and
Karlsberger architect John Plappert. "So all of the drivers for
this project were oriented toward creating welcoming, healing
spaces that would support such an experience." excerpt from
High-touch Healing
By Jean Nayar, Contract News Letter, © 2005 VNU eMedia Inc., All
rights reserved
"It was really nice to attend your seminar in
Kingston. As always, very informative and very enjoyable. I was
just reflecting on the 166,000 sensors embedded in the skin and
when I looked up the list price for a floor sensor, it priced
out at $51.00 each. That's a whopping $8,466,000 or $423,300 per
sq. ft."
Mike Lampkin
166,000 thermal sensors covering a nominal 20
sf of skin surface area.
That's why we can't emphasis enough that we do
not condition buildings
we condition people ...
hmm healing spaces ...
Dr. Steven M. Altschuler understands.
Interior
designer Rosalyn Cama,
FASID understands.
Seniors get it.
How about you?
Talk with us at our online forum.
RB
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October/November 2005 News Letter
Scroll
down for all the latest including an article from Mark
Eatherton one the most
recognized industry specialist here to share his first of
several bits of wisdom.
Web Stuff: The Nuts and Bolts of Indoor Environmental Quality. We
have started to add content to the Nuts & Bolts section of
our website. This material is for those who have zippy
machines connected to high speed servers who love the
technical aspects of design.
Click Here (Caution: Patience is required for the file
loads ( 20 to 60 seconds ) so grab a cup a coffee or a tea and sit back and enjoy).
Forum Stuff
http://www.healthyheating.com/bb2/index.php
Thanks again to our contributors who have been helping out
with great advice to our visitors. Were up to 165 plus
registered users. Right now our own Geoff McDonell, P.Eng.
is working with contractor extraordinaire Mike Lamkin on
using radiant with high velocity air systems.
Blog Stuff
http://wonderfulwombs.typepad.com/wwwhealthyheatingcom_bean/
New Titles:
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150 Year Old Civil War
Radiant System In
America
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Survival of the Fittest
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The Energy Pig Will Make
You...
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The Benefits of Radiant
in a Natural Disaster
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Trust the students and
teachers when it comes
to...
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Just a short note...
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Sounds Perfect Radiant Royals
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Builders Using Radiant
Are Heroes!
Ongoing Special
Feature: Barbara Kennedy, founder and President of
Changing Gears Inc., spent six weeks traveling between
Vancouver, B.C. and Oakville, Ontario organizing her 86 year
old mother's affairs...read her story here:Personal
experience set wheels in motion for Changing Gears by
Wilma Blokhuis
a Halton Media Group Article
...of recent note:
Hi Robert:
On behalf of our Board of Directors, I am pleased to advise
you that at
a board meeting last night, your joining the Advisory
Council was
approved! We are very excited to have you as part of our
team!!
Karen Somerville
Canadians for Properly Built Homes (CPBH)
CPBH was established to effect necessary and meaningful
positive change to the building and renovation industries in
Canada.
....and I look forward to serving along with Karen
and the fine folks at
CPBH.
RB
Karen has a message for all readers at the forum.
Click here.
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New Guest Contributor
Mark Eatherton
A Consumers Guide to
Purchasing Radiant Heating
Systems.
New Special Report
by Jeffrey C. May,
B.A., M.A.
The Little Girl and Her Couch
New Coast2Coast Article by Geoff McDonell,
P.Eng., LEED AP
The
Complete Comfort System
New Article by Rick Fedrizzi, CEO of the U.S.
Green Building Council
Home, Solar Home
New
Seminars
Inspecting Hydronics Heating Systems
The Role of Interior Design on Indoor Comfort Quality
New Article
Heat Loss to Head Loss, A 12 Step Process for Designing
Radiant Systems.
Dave Yates and Gary
Hayden will be back in the New Year with more fun
material.
Recommended Websites
 InformeDesign(R):
Where Research Informs Design Current research findings
are being translated into practitioner-friendly
information for use by interior designers, architects,
facilities managers, industry, clients, educators,
students, researchers, designers in related professions,
code officials, legislators, and the public at large.
The goal of InformeDesign is to facilitate
practitioners’ use of current, research-based
information as a decision-making tool in the design
process, thereby improving the quality of design
solutions and enhancing the public’s health, safety, and
welfare. Literature from more than 145 scholarly
journals is transformed into easy-to-read Research
Summaries accessible for free via
www.informedesign.umn.edu. Educational Web Cast
presentations, a monthly newsletter titled Implications,
a calendar of events, and research tutorials are some of
the other exciting features of the site. Register at no
cost to receive Research Summaries on topics of your
choosing emailed directly to you each week. Check out
InformeDesign today! For more information, email Dr.
Caren Martin, Director at directed@umn.edu
Search Design Research Online
National Radiant Design Center
The National Radiant Design Center (NRDC) is a consulting
engineering firm specializing in the design of radiant heating
systems for residential and light commercial projects. A
subsidiary of Monterey Energy Group, NRDC has worked with
thousands of architects and owners throughout the country on
projects of every size and varying architectural character. As a
national leader in hydronic radiant floor heating design, NRDC
has designed over five thousand custom residential and
commercial systems.
Seniors Housing Council Is Now the 50+ Housing Council
The NAHB Seniors Housing Council is changing its name
to the 50+ Housing Council to better reflect the
council's membership and the wide range of housing types
currently being built.
This new, inclusive name mirrors the diverse
membership the council serves, including active adult,
assisted living, independent living, continuing care
retirement communities and other seniors housing. It
also will position the council, which has nearly 1,200
local and at-large members across the country and
abroad, for continued growth in the future.
"Today’s mature home buyers simply don’t identify
themselves as ‘seniors,’ and the 50+ Housing Council
wants to be in touch with our members and the dynamic
consumers they serve," said Randy Rinehart, CBG, CAPS,
chairman of the 50+ Housing Council and a custom builder
from Charlottesville, Va. "The new name is more
marketable and will allow the Council to reach builders,
developers and other professionals involved in the 50+
market."
The NAHB Board of Directors approved the name change
during the Fall Board of Directors Meeting in Reno, Nev.
While the grand unveiling and launch of the new name
will not occur until the 2006 International Builders’
Show in January in Orlando, Fla., the new name and logo
is popping up on the NAHB Web site, in marketing
material and here in Nation’s Building News.
In addition, Seniors' Housing News will relaunch as
50+ Housing Magazine with its Winter 2006 issue and
Seniors Housing e/Source, the council’s e-newsletter,
will soon reach desktops as 50+ Council e/Source.
The new name is only part of the effort to increase
value and benefits for members, including the new online
membership directory and research exclusive to 50+
Housing Council members only.
For more information about the name change and
council benefits, visit
www.nahb.org/50plus
on the NAHB Web site.
That's it for now.
Forward this email to your friends - your family - everyone is welcome -
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