ASHRAE Insights

“Overshadowing everything else is the question of conservation of natural resources. For how much longer may we waste stored heat resources to save first-cost only of buildings?
 
“Our instinct is to live as to make living for our descendants a better proposition. How are we intelligently following the instinct?
 
“We refine the artificial heating plant, spend time and dollars and skill and genius in elaborating the heat transmitting appliances and the consuming devices with no more than cursory investigation of the type of construction of the building, and with no effort to influence it so as to reduce the heat losses.

“Many of us, I believe, stand convicted of crime in this regard against future generations.” 

—Source: S.R. Lewis, 1914