Greater Carlisle Project

Location: Green Building

  • FSA, Inc.

    FSA, Inc.

    Our mission is to provide smart, creative planning, engineering, landscape architecture and surveying services to the greater Carlisle region. We have been very involved with several local initiatives to expand and improve green space, design urban redevelopment projects, engineer stormwater management solutions and be a part of other great projects in the area. We are committed to being integrated our local community and economy, as a company and as individuals working and living here. Our downtown Carlisle presence keeps us in the midst of the energy and activity of this vibrant community.

     

     

  • Waste Not Energy Advisors LLC

    Waste Not Energy Advisors LLC

    Blower door testing, R-value, interstitial spaces, shading coefficient, leaky envelope, and infrared thermography may be new and confusing terms to you, but all of these things are part of a professional energy audit that will provide information about how the house measures up in terms of energy use. Waste Not Energy Advisors LLC conducts energy audits and develops strategies to reduce energy consumption in residential and commercial buildings.

    Improving the performance of a building starts by locating air leaks. The energy audit is the first step in gathering critical information that will help them to create a plan for improving the customer’s home safety, health, durability, and energy efficiency.

    Besides general business consulting and planning, Waste Not Energy Advisors LLC also offers a variety of courses on energy conservation throughout Pennsylvania.

  • Energy Smart Home Improvement

    Energy Smart Home Improvement

    ESHILogo1Energy Smart is a business providing home energy audits and energy saving improvements. The company is committed to the latest and greatest advances in the emerging field of home performance.  Here are some of their core business practices, which they believe are essential to running an effective (and successful) home performance outfit.

    Industry Standards and the Whole House Approach to Building Performance They are a proud partner with Home Performance with EnergyStar and PA Home Energy.  The ESHI team works according to the whole-house approach to building performance.  They treat each house as a system of interrelated parts; what affects one part of the system affects them all.  An inefficient HVAC system may contribute to moisture problems in unlikely places throughout the house.  Incandescent light bulbs and other heat-emitting home appliances make tangible differences on air conditioning loads.  Air leaks compromise the effectiveness of insulation.  By taking the whole-house approach, they are able to accurately assess the quality of the home environment, and thus help homeowners make the best decisions toward becoming more energy efficient, cost effctive, and comfortable.  To learn more about the whole-house approach, the Whole Building Design Guide is a great place to start.

     Air Sealing AND Insulation Maintaining a comfortable and energy efficient home entails both insulating and air sealing the building envelope.  At Energy Smart Home, they air seal customer’s home to stop the movement of uncontrolled, unwanted air between the interior and exterior, then insulate to give it a complete thermal boundary.