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Once again we had a beautiful day, a great crowd of interested visitors, and a tent full of enthusiastic professionals showing their work. This year like last, kids had a blast painting birdhouses while their parents learned the details of geothermal heating and cooling, solar hot water heating and how a Windsor chair is made by hand (I bought two of those). It is hard to describe the synergy created by over 40 experts and craftspeople in one place talking [...]

By |2010-06-03T13:42:43-04:00October 1st, 2009|Categories: FineHome Source|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Crisp Architects goes a little greener

Since we are involved more and more with our clients' choices of efficient mechanical systems, energy conserving designs, and green architectural solutions, we decided to be a little more energy conscious while visiting all of their job sites. Even though we have kept our four wheel drive vehicles for those deep mud and deep snow days, now we all drive the low emissions, high gas mileage, Honda Fit to most of our construction sites. To date the record is 41 [...]

By |2021-03-26T18:53:36-04:00October 18th, 2008|Categories: About Us, James Crisp, Miscellaneous|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Geothermal heating and cooling

One of my favorite jobs is visiting construction sites. On those visits I enjoy studying our homes from the most minor details we have designed to the overall execution of the project. Earth moving is always interesting but is especially dramatic when it involves the installation of a geothermal heating and cooling system. Almost all of our designs include energy saving elements but few have the impact of an energy efficient mechanical system. Conceptually a geothermal heat pump exchanges the [...]

By |2010-06-03T14:08:58-04:00July 22nd, 2008|Categories: Construction, Design, New Homes|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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