We were recently in “The Cities,” as Minneapolis and proximal St.Paul are known locally, so we did what any self respecting building science buff does before heading to the pub; take a tour of The Energy Conservatory’s facility! Paul Morin, a guy we’ve been dealing with for nearly 15 years, gave us the tour.
Nestled in a light industrial area of Minneapolis, TEC shares a large building covered in solar panels with a coffee roaster and many other small businesses. The wafting smells of freshly roasted coffee along with the patented “new blower door smell” were enough to send us over the top! But Paul kept us focused and showed us the myriad cavernous rooms that included an office, a calibration room, a creative R&D space, shipping and receiving/storage room, training facility and a product assembly room.
We were particularly impressed with the R&D room. Having just come from training in South Dakota on fenestration water and air testing, we were particularly interested in measuring really low air flows precisely and as luck would have it, TEC were developing a product for the French market. Thanks for the tour Paul!