Taken from the Quad-Lock January Newsletter!
“Green” is a word that today in some minds is overused and abused. Ten years ago, “green” was a word for a wildly right-wing party, for people following a seemingly stout agenda, and in general a word for a philosophy that had very few followers, at least in North America.
So what will be the meaning of “green” tomorrow and in the future?
As you all know, the ‘Greenhouse Effect’ and all its consequences is not speculation anymore, but a fact. As a mining engineer, I denied its existence for quite a while for certain reasons – mining and oil production are big carbon dioxide producers – but I’ve since been converted to the “green” camp.
Thus, “green” today is being defined as limiting or eliminating carbon dioxide output. The average Canadian has a CO2 output of five tons per year, of which about 50% are attributed to travel by car and airplane, and about 50% are attributed to heating and cooling. The Canadian government has set the goal for each citizen to reduce their CO2 output by one ton per year, in essence a 20% reduction.
Such a CO2 output reduction can be attained by several measures like reducing your travel, buying a more energy-efficient car, installing energy-efficient boilers, light bulbs etc. The reality is, even doing all these actions at once, will probably not get you to a 20% reduction in CO2 output.
What will get you there for sure is using Quad-Lock products.
Quad-Lock provides a building envelope solution for new construction that will lower your heating and cooling costs on average by 50% compared to conventional construction (which will give you a 25% reduction in CO2 output in the above 5 ton example).
“Go Green with Quad-Lock” is our motto, and it is well justified by the products and services we offer. My conviction is that “Green” in the future will be associated with Quad-Lock and its products.
Best regards,
Hubert Max Kustermann
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