The Nuts and Bolts of Green...

You may have noticed that ECO's WasteHeat.com energy efficiency website hasn't changed much in the last three years. That's because we have busy as the engineer-of-record for over 60 building projects many of which have applied green design features (see our 5 year summary). While ECO has been busy putting the 'nuts and bolts of green' into blue prints and construction documents, green marketing has grown to near saturation levels! The Building Industry has been truly changed through green benchmarking methods like US Green Building Council-LEED, Green Globes, and others. Broad green strategies like carbon neutral design, carbon reduction technologies, and global carbon valuations like the Chicago Carbon Exchange are being applied rather than debated. While every company now claims to be green, some have actually advanced real 'nuts and bolts' energy efficiency technologies. UTC Power's 'Pure Cycle' waste heat technologies and HIJC's alumina silicate waste heat adsorption chiller technologies are prime examples. Is WasteHeat now ready for prime time?

Educating...  

This website originated to promote the sustainability of waste heat energy as a "zero fuel - zero pollutant" green energy source. We have kept the WasteHeat website available as a free resource to those interested in unique heat energy technologies. Some of the company specific information may become outdated (Siemens acquired Kühnle Kopp & Kausch,  HIJC improves adsorption efficiency by 25%, etc.), so further follow up on some technologies may be needed.

Marketing?...

The bottom line is that Wasteheat technologies remain an excellent 'nuts and bolts' way to attain huge carbon reductions. To push your unique technology into the marketing mainstream through use of this site, call ECO at ++1-713-377-4209.

Press Releases:

Eco-Holdings 5 Year Summary

ECO completes 5 years of consulting and engineering - Eco-Holdings, a 2003 Texas registered engineering firm has completed contracts for Capstone, Harris County, Houston Food Bank, Wells Fargo, Fuselodge, and Standard Renewable Energy. Engineering services have been provided for over 130 clients, including design engineering for over 60 projects. Projects have included 13 green featured buildings and 3 USGBC-LEED projects. ECO's green leaning project designs have included green roofs, water harvesting, autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC), structural insulated panels (SIP), structural concrete insulated panels (SCIP), under floor air distribution (UFAD), solar photo voltaics, solar hotwater, live water, wind power, onsite distributed power, flood mitigation, flood water conveyance, pervious concrete paving, and Shelter-In-Place capabilities. Be sure to visit ECO at Houston's first Sustainable Energy and Green Building Event at Reliant Park in Houston, TX, April 4-6, 2008. 

December 2007

ECO provides inspection services for Standard Renewable Energy (former New Point Energy) on their largest solar PV array to date (estimated annual output 4400 kWhrs) installed in Texas City

February 2007

ECO scores hat-trick in 1st Quarter by securing 3rd green design contracts using energy efficient building technologies.

One each for the Lodging, Medicine, and Residential markets. Green Building - finally here to stay? 

December 2006

Siemens acquires Kühnle Kopp & Kausch, the German 'small twin steam turbine' company. Siemens will now offer and support KK&K's proven small 'green' turbo power products - watch for more small biomass, geothermal energy activity in the US.

July 2006:

Harris County's new data center  with onsite 'black start' back up power plus redundant data system HVAC cooling system, both designed by ECO Holdings engineering services, comes online!

April 2006:

Eco completes engineering for two USGBC LEED certification residential projects.  The independent projects will be built in Austin and Houston in late 2006. Each structure utilizes a hybrid of alternate building systems including AAC (Autoclave Aerated Concrete) and SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels). The architectural design, by a leading LEED accredited architect, includes advanced energy design, rainwater water storage, natural and forced air ventilation, passive solar, and day-lighting.     

August 2005:

Eco completes engineering for Harris County's On-Site Power with Cooling. Natural gas fueled 'black-start' back up power system and data center redundant cooling system aimed at  improving critical services availability during grid failure, while reducing cooling costs during normal operations.   

May 2005:

Energy Recovery Technologies Evolving Rapidly  - Click here to see what has happened in just two years 

December 2004:

Recovered Heat Energy - Soon a Renewable Resource?

"It is inevitable that Waste Heat will be defined as a renewable resource. After all, the fuel to create it is not only paid for, it is already combusted. This means that Waste Heat Energy is actually free energy provided at zero pollution. Its 'energy-environmental' ratio is much better than any ethanol, biodiesel, or biomass 'renewable' and typically tax subsidized energy programs. And it requires no grand technology development investment like fuel cells or solar cells"  

May 2004:

"Waste Heat Energy, the Sleeping Giant of All Energy" published May 2004 at www.EnergyCentral.com