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www.buildingturbines.com
Address:
7703 N. Lamar Blvd. #510
Austin, TX 78752-1055
Email: info@buildingturbines.com
Phone: (512) 206-4205
Fax: (512) 617-6302
Profile: Building Turbines, Inc.
Building Turbines, Inc. (BTI) offers a unique, patented wind turbine product that can bring the dream of clean, affordable wind energy to a reality. The turbine is mounted on a strong steel frame, it has a low profile, low maintenance needs, and creates almost no noise or vibration. The BTI design possesses these exemplary and robust structural, mechanical and electrical characteristics that are particularly important when mounting a renewable energy system onto a building's roof.
BTI is an Austin, Texas based development stage renewable energy corporation focusing on designing and manufacturing revolutionary rooftop mounted wind turbines. The innovative and patented BTI’s design is ideal for commercial applications and creates reliable, cost-effective, clean and on-site renewable electricity.
BTI’s horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWT) easily mount onto commercial buildings with flat roofs. The uni-directional design rests on HVAC-style curbs and is mounted along the roof’s edge next to the parapet wall. The turbine takes full advantage of what is called a ‘parapet vortex’ which naturally occurs as wind accelerates up the side of a building and crests over the roof top edge. The turbine’s axle rod is centered in this vortex capturing maximum electrical power generation capability from the wind.
Building Turbines, Inc. is a publicly traded company (Stock Symbol: BLDW).
Mission Statement
bldwTo be a world-class provider of rooftop mounted horizontal-axis wind turbines offering their customers a proven and reliable solution for generating cost-effective on-site electricity.
Core Values
The following list of core values reflects what is truly important to us as people, and as an organization. These values are steadfast across the company and do not change from time to time, situation to situation or person to person, but rather they are the underlying foundation of their company culture.
Their small but growing team feels that Building Turbines, Inc. is an exciting company of which to be a part and a very special place to work. These core values help solidify the many reasons for this feeling and by maintaining these core values across time, regardless of how large a company BTI becomes, they can preserve their culture and maintain focus on what has always been special about their company.
Caring about our environment
They believe that the environment on planet earth is shared by all of it's inhabitants and that the development and implementation of intelligent renewable energy benefits all. They are committed to making this a reality.
Caring about our community
They care about, believe in and highly value the concept of community. The growing BTI community is centered around common ideas related to clean renewable energy and fundamental cooperation to develop and grow mutual business opportunities while helping the environment AND the American economy in the process.
Collaboration
They believe that collaboration is critical in the development of emerging technologies and that it can also be an important catalyst to progress. Various teams and entities joining to advance any particular idea, technology, product, industry or market segment can be much more powerful and capable than the individual effort. They believe that collaboration is powerful and that the creation and development of collaborative efforts is key.
Technical Excellence
They believe in world-class engineering that focuses on quality, over-all effectiveness as well as the practical aspects of the total solution.
Education
Education is the basis for society and culture and we believe that education is an unwavering duty of society. Education gives them the knowledge of the world around us. It develops in them a perspective of looking at life. BTI is committed to education in general and they’ll seek out opportunities to participate in educating others and themselves.
Strategic Relationships
BTI values people and the relationship side of business. Strategic relationships build upon, and strengthen the mutual capability of the collective team. By leveraging the investments BTI has made in its network we will be better positioned to deliver a superior technology and wind turbine solution to the market. BTI values strategic business relationships and the development of opportunities for multi-faceted benefit.
Customer is #1
BTI recognizes that it's not about customer service - it's about customer loyalty. It's not about brand awareness - it's about brand insistence. And, it's not about closing a sale: it's about attracting and keeping clients for life. At BTI, their focus is on their customers and successfully achieving their goals and objectives.
Industry Involvement
BTI values renewable energy and the development of a distributed generation-centric industry that focuses on making on-site power. They are strong advocates for wind power, solar power (which they compliment nicely) and the ‘DG’ model. They believe that involvement in, advocacy of, and contribution to the renewable energy wind industry is an important aspect of their business as they maintain their focus on delivering an effective rooftop wind energy solution.
Building Turbines Company History
bldwAs a commercial office building owner, Mr. John F. Graham Sr. began to realize the need for an effective renewable energy solution to help offset his demanding energy bill. Mr. Graham felt the wind’s potential when he was on his building’s roof. He decided to personally pursue the development of a viable rooftop mounted wind turbine.
Taking advantage of the fact that he owns the building, Mr. Graham began developing smaller models of the horizontal-axis wind turbine for mounting onto his building’s roof. At one point, with the second floor entirely vacant, Mr. Graham created his own wind tunnel using HVAC blowers to test the theories and models. John’s mission is to create the world’s first HAWT (horizontal-axis wind turbine) for rooftop mounting so that he could help make the world a better place through the robust and reliable creation of ‘distributed’ electric power from Mother Nature’s clean and renewable source – the wind.
Rooftop wind turbines can convert under-utilized rooftop space into "distributed generation" (DG) power sites. Most building rooftops can support multiple wind turbines that can share a single grid-tie to the building. The sheer magnitude of the available rooftop space throughout the USA combined with the wide-scale deployment potential of rooftop wind turbine generators can make a meaningful contribution to meeting the current renewable energy goals of many corporations, municipalities, states and federal departments and agencies.
Today, Building Turbines is a publicly traded company with a cross-functional team of building construction and energy experienced business leaders. With momentum occurring on all fronts, the BTI team is committed to forging a sustainable renewable energy solution provider business model. BTI will manage a lean organization of carefully chosen outsource partners to ensure a customer-centric and effective over-all solution from manufacturing to installation exists across the USA.
The Next Phase in Renewable Energy
Affordable rooftop wind power is now available for your building. Today, wind energy is used to generate electricity that powers millions of American homes and businesses. Wind power is also widely recognized as one of most desirable and fastest-growing sources of clean and renewable energy. Until now however, the growth of wind power that they truly need to meet their growing energy demands has been limited by the cost prohibitive nature of current solutions.
The team at Building Turbines realized the need for a reliable rooftop wind turbine that effectively dealt with the structural and mechanical issues and provided the customer a unique, innovative, and compelling way to make clean renewable power on-site. They recognize America’s need to move forward with deployment of wind energy solutions that help them all reduce their dependency on fossil fuels and preserve the environment.
Building Turbines Technology
bldw Famous Quote: “We do not inherit the earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children.”
The team at Building Turbines believes in a multi-faceted approach to meeting today’s demanding energy requirements. They also believe that renewable energy sources should play a prominent role.
The sun shines every day for all of them, free of charge and the wind blows for free as well. Non-renewable energy sources can cost a lot of money to find and move. They must take the fossil fuels from the ground and ship them long distances to places where they can be used.
Oil must be refined before it can be used. This is expensive. They also have to pay to clean up the pollution they cause. Economically speaking as coal and oil supplies get used up, their prices get higher.
In 2011, they are very familiar with the variety of issues caused by our macro-level dependence on fossil fuels and the time for focus on renewable energy is now. By implementing sustainable, clean renewable energy in smart and cost-effective ways, they can all win.
Benefits of Wind Technology
The BTI turbine technology takes advantage of the natural force of wind as it interacts with a building. When the wind accelerates up the side of a building and reaches the edge of the rooftop it creates a vortex that perfectly aligns with the BT turbines’ horizontal axis for maximum efficiency. Its’ innovative and patented design leads to an affordable solution that has many competitive advantages and is effective at creating clean, renewable on-site power.
Wind is a premier renewable energy source with zero emissions
Wind energy can help alleviate a stressed and antiquated grid system
Wind energy can also help reduce over-all dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil
Allows customer to realize corporate responsibility to environment and save bottom-line dollars
Generate electricity even at moderately low (8+ Mph) wind speeds
Federal, state, and city rebates currently exist to reduce capital costs
Produces power on-site (where it is needed) – avoids costly transmission and associated power loss – helps reduce demand on stressed grid system (and offset coal-related emissions)
Creates power 24/ 7 with sufficient minimal wind speeds (night or day, sun or clouds)
Multiple electrical configuration possibilities exist to maximize flexibility
No storage via batteries (generate and consume directly in building)
Storage via batteries with ‘smart meter’ technology to directly offset peak usage times and achieve maximum savings
Wind energy can improve the energy impact of any building it can be mounted on
Wind energy is complimentary to solar thus creating potential cost optimizing synergy (shared ‘system’)
Distributed Generation
The BT team also believes strongly in the DG model where the power is generated (via a clean and renewable source) on-site for direct consumption by the building. This model is called ‘DG’ and turns the ‘centralized’ power production model upside down and says – make the power WHERE it will be used.
Currently in the United States, up to 55% of every kilowatt produced is LOST in transmission. The degree of wasted time, energy, effort and money due to this issue is simply staggering.
They believe that the DG model has enormous potential to positively impact today’s energy demand. There are enough commercial rooftops that can be used to make power from renewable sources and efficiently and effectively deliver that power directly to the building’s AC panel (and grid). With a growing ‘install base’ of commercial renewable energy systems in a ‘DG’ model, the macro-level demand for fossil fuels, and all of the associated problems and costs can be reduced.
BTI System Advantages
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The uni-directional design rests on HVAC-style curbs and is mounted along the roof's edge next to the parapet wall. The turbine takes full advantage of what is called a "parapet vortex" which naturally occurs as wind accelerates up the side of a building and crests over the roof top edge. The axis of the turbine is centered in this vortex capturing maximum electrical power generation capability from the wind.
BT’s design has one awarded patent, two patents pending, and more on the way
The BTI turbine has an approx. 10’ x 27.5’ footprint and the system weighs approx 1,400 pounds as a complete system
Patented design captures maximum rotational wind from natural vortex created at roof top edge
Horizontal axis design is more effective when mounting to building due to no mast or pole
Horizontal blades can be customized with full-color graphics and company logo (as well as the ‘augmenter’ that sits over the edge of the rooftop to guide the wind into the turbine)
Design allows for secure mounting on roof with minimal modification (no poles or costly roof modifications)
Well-suited for the urban environment (low profile, ease of installation, appealing design)
Low center of gravity with strong, robust square steel tubing (frame) design for rooftops which results in almost no vibration or noise
Installation can be accomplished without the use of expensive helicopters (easily assembling unit(s) on the roof top)
Scale-able design
Can add turbine units per available space on roof
All turbine units can share wiring and/or storage with each other
Turbines can be combined with solar (PV) cells and they can also share ‘system`
Building Turbines Product Information
bldwThe BTI turbine is designed for mounting onto flat commercial rooftops and its’ innovative and patented design is ideal for urban settings.
The turbine can help office buildings, schools, warehouses, distribution centers, airports, hotels, and a variety of other buildings offset electricity purchased from the grid by creating it on-site from the wind. The turbine creates reliable, cost-effective and clean renewable electricity with little building modification required.
Building Turbines' horizontal-axis wind turbines ("HAWT") easily mount onto commercial buildings and turn historically dead space into power producing real estate. The uni-directional design rests on HVAC-style curbs and is mounted along the roof's edge next to the parapet wall.
The turbine takes full advantage of what is called a "parapet vortex" which naturally occurs as wind accelerates up the side of a building and crests over the roof top edge. The axis of the turbine is centered in this vortex capturing maximum electrical power generation capability from the wind.
Turbine Design
The turbine frame is square steel tubing making it strong and lightweight, giving it a low profile and creating almost no noise or vibration. The turbine has a stainless steel axle rod down the middle of the turbine and it has six stainless steel, sealed bearings down the 27+ foot length. The ‘load’ factor on these bearing is virtually non-existent due to the horizontal-axis design and this helps keeps the maintenance requirement very low.
The BTI turbine design possesses exemplary and robust structural, mechanical and electrical characteristics that are particularly important when mounting a renewable energy system onto a building's roof. The turbine has a permanent magnet generator (PMG) that generates electricity when the turbine spins. The power is routed from the alternator to the inverter where it is inverted into AC power. The grid-tie inverter has the necessary protection circuitry for grid interconnection and converts the power to the proper uniformity in alternating current for consumption by the building at its main AC panel. Each kW consumed by the building's AC panel that was provided by clean, renewable, GHG-emissions-free wind turbines on the building's roof directly offsets a kW that would have been purchased from the grid.
Basic Electrical Design
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System Definition
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The BTI renewable energy rooftop turbine comes as a packaged and complete solution. The turbine has a generator mounted on it that is connected to the main axle rod via two sprockets and an industrial stainless steel chain.
From the generator, the signal path goes through the necessary overload protection circuitry, through the required cut-off switches (per code) and then into an inverter.
The inverter performs the function of getting the power into AC (alternating current) output that is ready for ‘consumption’ by the building as it is connected to the building’s main AC panel. From the main AC panel, the power supplied by the turbine(s) can be used anywhere within the building’s electrical system.
The turbine system as described above can be a single turbine solution or a it can consist of multiple turbines. The total solution could also be potentially complimented by a rooftop solar system. These two renewable energy systems can share installation costs and share rooftop space to provide a dual-sourced solution
The BTI Team
Building Turbines has assembled a world-class team of experts to help drive their innovative technology and the company to the next level.
John F. Graham Sr. Chief Executive Officer & Founder
bldwJohn F. Graham Sr., is the founder and CEO of Building Turbines. Mr. Graham invented the original version of the Building Turbines wind turbine while actively seeking viable alternative energy solutions for his buildings in Austin, Texas. Developed from the perspective of a building owner and commercial consumer of power, the Building Turbines Solution provides for a simple, seamless integration of wind power to building consumption utilizing historically unused building space. Mr. Graham, graduated with a Bachelors degree in business Administration and has been actively involved in real estate ownership and property management in Austin, making significant contributions to the industry during the last 20 years. Mr. Graham is a building owner, real estate developer, entrepreneur, business owner and inventor. Mr. Graham is the visionary behind Building Turbines.
Greg Miller Chief Business Development Officer
bldwGreg Miller attended Colorado State University and the University of Texas-Austin in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science Degree but changed to real estate & micro computer sales as the Apple II+ emerged in the late 70’s. Quickly realizing his love for meeting new customers and delivering personalized service, he advanced to the construction side of real estate. Miller cut his teeth in remodeling foreclosed homes in the late 80’s, new home construction through the 90’s and finally into commercial construction to the present. Greg looks forward to wearing many hats for the Building Turbines team as our company spins into world view.
Edwin Mercado Member, Board of Directors
bldwEdwin D. Mercado is a retired United States Army Intelligence Officer with over 33 years in the Department of Defense. He is a graduate of the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico (B.A. Criminal Justice) and the Army Management Staff and Command & General Staff Colleges. Mr. Mercado is a recipient of the Legion of Merit (military award) and the Superior Civilian Service Award (DOD civilian award). His military and civilian career include positions in the areas of: project management (pursuing a Project Management Professional -PMP Certificate), strategic transformation, intelligence operations, logistics and management. His tour in the United States Forces Korea/8th Army, Inspector General (IG) (Chief, Inspection Division) led to his extensive research and subsequent expertise identifying efficient and effective ways to operate diverse Army (Lean Six Sigma) and renewable energy programs. His interest and sound advice led to his selection to serve on the Board of Directors of a Water Evaporation company providing services to the oil and gas industry. Mr. Mercado’s government background and renewal energy experience is a great asset to the Building Turbine Advisory Board.
Max Champie Chief Marketing Officer
bldwOnce quoted in local newsprint as having “the Midas Touch” on any business, Max was asked to come out of retirement and join the B.T. team. A high energy and goal-driven marketing executive, Max Champie approaches each new business challenge with his intrinsic flair for innovation, creative problem-solving, and measured risk-taking to drive consistent bottom-line improvements for the company and its investors. He states that it was the rare blend of an exceptional executive team, unique product and perfect timing that convinced him to come down from his Colorado Mountain and give it one last ride.
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