Instructor: Eric Boll, Pillar to Post

Elective CE: 2 hours*
*Each course listed below will give one hour per course of elective continuing education credit.

AIR CONDITIONING FOR AN OLDER HOME (1 hour)
This course introduces you to a number of simple options for air conditioning in an old house.  You will learn the basic terms and definitions, a few techniques to determine which air conditioning option to suggest to a client, and that even old homes heated by hot water have air conditioning options


SUSTAINABLE HOUSING (1hour)   Over the past few years, there has been a push to increase efficiencies, use less energy and use environmentally friendly products. The next step is to look at our houses and how they operate to see what can be done to make a lighter footprint on the earth.  In other presentations, we have covered green building materials, green appliances, high-efficiency heating and cooling, and geothermal heat pumps.

In this presentation, we are looking more specifically at the environmental impact of our houses and how simple choices we make can change the impact.  We will also look at emerging technologies that have been around for a while but are only now reaching critical mass. In particular, we will look at how energy from the sun is managed and harnessed directly in residential homes.

There are other technologies that we could look at. For example, wind power is an emerging technology that will have an impact on our lives in the years to come but wind turbines are not usually employed directly on site for residential homes.