by Brendan Kavanagh Almost 10 years ago Byggmeister started installing air-source heat pumps (also referred to as “mini-splits”) as part of our energy retrofit projects. Since then the technology has improved dramatically and heat pumps have become our go-to solution for heating and cooling. These days the majority of our projects include a heat pump… Read more »
by Rachel White It’s hard to remember a time when I have felt as riven by conflicting emotions as I have these past couple of months. Despair and hope. Conviction and doubt. Joy and sadness. And just as it felt like we were coming through the first dark leg of our journey through the pandemic,… Read more »
by Rachel White This post was published on March 16, 2020. We resumed field operations the week of May 26th and updated the title to reflect that the work suspension has passed. No other edits have been made to the original post. Upton Sinclair wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something… Read more »
by Rachel White I began my relationship with Byggmeister in 2008 as a client. My husband and I hired the company to renovate our master bedroom and improve the efficiency of our home. I was in the midst of a career transition (I am a recovering academic) and was on a quest to reduce our… Read more »
by Rachel White and Paul Eldrenkamp Even before the September 2018 gas explosions in Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, we were encouraging homeowners to wean themselves from the gas grid. To be honest, we weren’t all that concerned about explosions, and we still aren’t. Although we don’t want to diminish the tragedy that occurred, we… Read more »
by Kristina Eldrenkamp “Green” can be an empty term if it’s not defined in measurable ways. This conviction has informed our efforts to assign performance metrics to projects and to monitor progress towards meeting these over time. Some of the ways we document performance include our energy and water use tracking program and our protocols… Read more »
by Paul Eldrenkamp One of Byggmeister’s goals with each project is to improve indoor air quality, including minimizing the pollutants caused by cooking. Cooking, it turns out, is a major source of indoor air contamination. A recent Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory study found that “a significant portion of residences exceed outdoor air quality standards for several pollutants… Read more »
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