Tuesday, December 4, 2007 : 9:00 a.m.
Those Wonderful Toys: Specialty Geothermal Tools
Those Wonderful Toys
This program will discuss the specialty tools and accessories used by professional geothermal drillers to simplify loop preparation, testing, and installation. These tools can increase daily productivity, reduce labor requirements, and increase profitability. The presentation will include portable mud pits and horizontal and vertical loop coil reels.
Phil Rawlings, CGD, TRC Energy Services Phil Rawlings is a Technical Systems Specialist for TRC Energy Services. He provides technical support, feasibility studies, thermal conductivity testing, ground loop design, project management, and IGSHPA Installer and heat fusion training. Mr. Rawlings has been an active member of the GSHP industry since 1978. He was a founding member of the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA) and the Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium (GHPC). Mr. Rawlings is a Certified Geothermal Designer, with thousands of successful projects around the world. These projects include systems as diverse as on the northern coast of Canada and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.