A Calgary business owner recognized that building an energy efficient new shop would provide a long term competitive advantage.
This 5,000 sqft shop combines geothermal radiant heating for the main warehouse and geothermal forced air heating & cooling for the office portion.
Being somewhat remote, bringing in natural gas lines was expensive and heating with Propane is just never a good economical idea for the long term.
These factors, plus the longer terms lower footprint, made the decision for a geothermal solution and easy one for the business owner.
To meet the developers construction timelines, we actually roughed-in the geothermal header lines first.
We ran them from the mechanical room area to the outside where the field was going to be planned.
Drilling, and fusion connections to these roughed in lines happened quite a bit later. This worked out really well.
