Actions lead to the expense of energy continues to take a significant part of their operating costs, hasn't time arrived to begin devising new ways of designing and controlling the heating and cooling systems entering condominium buildings? A good starting point is usually to start designing a typical system to serve the complete building as opposed to individual plants for each living unit.
Clearly, the capital reserve study for the condominium association will have to address the new concept. The townhouse configuration offers a good example. Here the look approach is to consider each unit being a small home - five units, five warming systems. You could debate that, given our preference for independence, each homeowner needs to have an inalienable right to control the destiny of their individual comfort level.
