Rockland Public Library: Part 8
Rockland Public Library: The Home Stretch It’s our last week at the Rockland Public Library. We usually spend a week, maybe two, on a job, but then again, we usually work on homes. A big municipal building is a different animal, and it’s taken us almost seven weeks to tame this one.
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Mind the Gap at the Rockland Public Library It’s pretty obvious that when we’re air sealing, we’re closing gaps. What might surprise you is how many gaps there are, all over the most solid of buildings. Gaps between trim and fireplace surrounds or windows: Even “gaps” that are so big, and go so far, they may as well be portals to another universe:
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Retrofitting the Rockland Public Library: In the Basement The main part of the Rockland Public Library’s basement runs beneath the new section, shown at the top of this diagram. Other than the Mechanical Room, this is all finished space, with rooms for teens and toddlers, meetings and book sales.
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Retrofitting the Rockland Public Library: Up in the Attics This is the Rockland Public Library in 1904:
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Retrofitting the Rockland Public Library: Setting the Scene
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Energy Assessment and Efficiency Recommendations Although Evergreen focuses primarily on residential energy efficiency, we can’t resist municipal projects in our own backyard. So when the trustees of the Rockland Public Library approached us with concerns about high energy bills, uneven temperatures, and ice damming, we listened.
Read MoreMerry and Bright
Happy New Year! 2012 has long been anticipated as the end of the Mayan calendar and the beginning The New Age of Light Bulbs. As of yesterday, 100-watt light bulbs must be at least 25% more efficient their packages must explain their brightness, annual operating costsm, and expected life span. 75-watt bulbs will face the same standards next January, and 40- and 60-watt bulbs will fall
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Homeowners considering energy efficiency projects ask a lot of the same questions.
Read MoreBuy Local, Build Local: Beyond Small Business Saturday
Watch out, Black Friday and Cyber Monday: there’s a new shopping day in town. Small Business Saturday encourages shoppers to kick off the holiday season on Main Street because, “When we all shop small, it will be huge.” There’s real possibility behind this feel-good slogan: half of America’s workers e
Read MoreTeaching Energy Efficient Design in High School
Their assignment is to design an energy-efficient house for an imaginary client, but the Architectural Drafting students at Camden Hills Regional High School have plenty of questions about the houses their families really live in.
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