Happy Holidays from exchangenergy to you!

This has been an amazing year. We learned a lot, we developed new and lasting relationships and we’ve grown both as individuals and as a company. Vancouver’s custom heating and cooling industry is growing leaps and bounds and exchangenergy is so proud to be a key participant in this. Thanks to all of the innovative builders, developers, architects and home owners who have made this year such an incredible ride! We look forward to future  projects and innovations that allow us realize our dream of doing business that really and truly benefits our earths atmosphere while creating luxurious comfort and joy!

Some key links to explore if you are considering a new build (in alphabetical order-and there are more! Call us to discuss your options.)

Bakken Construction

Balandra Homes

Burgers Architecture

CAC Construction

GD Neilsen Developments

K2 Construction

Osburn/Clark

Peter Montgomery Construction

SOS Design

Some of our most recent projects coming soon…

Tis’ the season and the New Year is just around the corner so we are taking time to look back at what we achieved this last year and we’re rather proud of our selves.

Stay posted as we upload some of our favorite projects of the year.

Heating and Cooling never looked so good!

Its not that we don’t love heating and cooling but we have to admit its rare that we get our minds blown by an innovation that is not only practical and functional but to have it be sexy too?!? Rare to say the least. We loved the Lima-1 and we celebrate our own internal custom innovations on a daily basis but here’s a little Vancouver/Vancouver Island heating contractor “eye candy” for ya’ll to share in- enter  Nest Learning thermostat by the fiercely creative design team behind the iPod.  The Nest is not only an intuitive thermostat it’s a smart thermostat. It studies your rhythms and syncs itself to them ultimately saving you money and conserving energy.

We’ve put our selves on the waiting list and are working hard to make them available to you as soon as is possible.

Let us know what you think!

Check out the Youtube video and let us know what you think Nest

How Nest learns

Richmond Review sheds light on Green builds in Richmond.

exchagnenergy is excited to be part of the Baladra homes project in Richmond BC. Balandra Homes is responsible for building the first geothermal/geo-exchange residential spec home in Richmond, Dunlin Shore; and they’ve done so in hopes of inspiring others to do the same.

Paying respect to the land as well as the First Nations People of this land played a role in their considerations as did the long term benefits geothermal/geo-exchange systems offer.

Check out the Richmond Review article to see who, how and what’s going on in Richmond!
And check out Balandra homes blog to see the smart home Dunlin Shore’sprogression.

Vancouver Cleans UP Post Stanley Cup Riot

We are proud of the work we do. exchangenergy is proud to be installers of geothermal/geoexchange heating and cooling systems. We are proud to be part of reducing our societies impact on the environment. But every once in a while something happens that just plain makes you proud to be a good person and this was the case with the Post Riot Vancouver City Clean UP.

Ok people…it was a wild ride. The Canucks took us on an amazing journey and we’re proud of them. What we were not so proud about was the riots that ensued post game 7 . After our city invested heavily in making the experience as inclusive and celebratory as possible a few misguided individuals tore apart the unity and civic pride we had experienced. As we watched the plumes of smoke waft across our skyline we were devastated. How could we look our kids in the eyes and explain this kind of behavior? Enter FaceBook!

Thanks to the  FaceBook group “Post Riot Clean-Up-Lets help Vancouver” exchangenergy was able to participate in restoring our city’s dignity and pride. We took the morning off, brought our kids and got to work.We were able to meet lots of like minded people and it felt good to do our part.  Check out the amazing photos and commentary on the Lets Help Vancouver link as well as the Vancouver Public Library’s twitter/flicker photos.

Thanks to all of the people who came down to support the clean up and thanks to all of the media who made sure to give our positive input as much press coverage ( if not more) as they did the rioters who tore our city center down.

We’re proud again to be Vancouverites.

Go Canucks! Congratulations Bruins!

For those who want to see the big picture!

The International Energy Agency produced an interesting publication on Renewables for Heating and Cooling in 2008. This publication is as pertinent today as it was when it was published and we’re happy to recommend the read. Geo-Exchange/Geothermal are referred to as “Deep Geothermal” and “Shallow Geothermal”-Shallow being the technology most commonly used for residential units. The report covers bio-fuels, Solar and Geothermal in particular as viable alternatives and presents both the big picture as well as gives great insight into each technology available.

A good read for the Geo-Exchange/Geothermal curious.

For Geo-Exchange/Geothermal specifics you can start on page 38.

A diet we can live with-Low Carbon!

We all know that the earth needs a break and it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the doom and gloom of global warming so we thought it a good idea to do something fun for the kids! That said…we might just learn a thing or two.

Here’s a handy little booklet that the Queensland (yes, Australia) government put out to get kids thinking about their carbon footprint and giving them a tangible way of measuring their impact. We know that our kids are on to the “recycling kick” and for the most part are aware of the “turn off the lights when you leave a room” philosophy but this booklet allows them to track and calculate their impact. A great tool for the analytical type.

Then…for the less analytical and more “just entertain me” individual we found Green Kids Inc. a live theater group dedicated to environmental education and change. Check them out-Green Kids Inc. ( A proudly Canadian troupe)

There is plenty of room for growth and development in our education system where renewable energy and energy efficiency is concerned. Our British Columbia school curriculum is still scrambling to integrate Geothermal/ground source, air source, solar and wind energy technologies into the environmental studies module. It is up to us to encourage decision makers to embrace alternative energies and make them part of the mainstream bringing the discussion into our classrooms is a good place to start.