Adroit Energy installing a solar hot water system on a multifamily high-rise in downtown San Diego.
From there, Adroit launched its strategic vision to educate and support the firms needing more information and how-to capabilities, but which lacked the necessary time or resources to acquire them.
Adroit began making presentations and giving classes to anyone interested—architecture and contractor firms, industry groups, local government departments and indus- try associations. Members of the San Diego Environmental Services Dept. became a frequent audience; also, the California Solar Energy Industries Association became a new affiliation for the company.
“We’re clearing a large educational hurdle for everyone by helping owners, architects and contractors navigate the new laws,” says William Chen, Adroit’s COO and Vice President of Engineering.
INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Among the initial fallacies that Adroit had to dispel was the notion that any installation of energy-saving technology is a correct installation—as long as the owner, the firm and the city could “check off the box,” the job was done. Adroit had to educate those entities that merely installing the equipment did not always achieve success.
“ We’re clearing a large educational hurdle for everyone by helping owners, architects and contractors navigate the new laws.”
- William Chen, COO and Vice President of Engineering, Adroit Energy
“Some firms put solar panels on the wrong side of the roof or calibrated the panels facing the wrong direction,” says Chen. “Many times we’ve reviewed plans for a solar system and determined that the figures wouldn’t work as designed.”
Another misapprehension faced early on was the idea that planning for renewable energy technologies came at the end, instead of at the beginning, of conceptual design work.
“Architects have to take renewable technologies into consideration during the design phase in order to pass California’s standards,” says Katy Hamilton, Vice President of Architectural Energy at Adroit. “The earlier those energy considerations are factored into designs, the easier they will be to integrate.”
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