Mark Meshulam is an expert witness and consultant for windows, glass and building facades. Your Chicago Window Expert recently had an opportunity to visit a real, working solar power plant in Richmond, California. The Richmond site, a wastewater treatment plant, now obtains one-third of its electrical energy needs from solar power. Aside from the great story-value of a municipal agency (The West County Wastewater District,…
News from the Green Front
Mark Meshulam is an expert witness and consultant for windows, glazing and building facades. From the New York Times: A New Enforcer in Buildings, the Energy Inspector “If you build a building well, it’s an asset for 100 years; conversely, if you build a shoddy building, it can be a 100-year liability,†said Hal Harvey, chief executive of ClimateWorks, a group seeking to tackle global…
The Lowdown on Low-E Glass
These days, everybody wants Low-E glass, but what the heck is it?
Low-E is short for low emissivity. Emissivity is a measure of radiation of absorbed energy.