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Aerial view of BRE Innovation Park Living City Campus
Lifestyle and environment

Seven experimental homes being built at the Living City Campus North of Toronto

...ASH). The twin houses act as a living laboratory with more than 400 calibrated sensors that monitor the performance of the buildings' systems.  ASH will now be joined by a small subdivision of experimental houses to further facilitate research into green building products.  “Each of those new buildings will be built to...

Comparing ground source and air source heat pumps
Heating and cooling

Heat pumps: Ground source geothermal GSHP or air source ASHP, what's the difference?

...ASHP's - and not really "Geothermal" heating in the true sense of the word - but hey - as many folks do call it that, they're also going to search for it, right? GSHP's v ASHP's - how are they compared?  The Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP) is run out of The Living City Campus at Kortright, ON, where ...