Pragmatists for Clean Air is an open-source project for all-electric buildings. We help developers, architects, engineers, and builders share best practices and solve common obstacles for all-electric buildings. All-electric buildings can be:
- Efficient
- Cost-effective operations and maintenance (O&M)
- 100% Renewable
- Beneficial to local air-quality
- Beautiful
Why it Matters
40% of Utah’s air pollution is attributed to emissions from buildings. As the population is expected to continue booming across the state, the amount of pollution emitted from new construction to house all of these residents will rise with it. Building for clean air today is how we will solve our pollution problem in the future.
History
This Giv Communities initiative began as a quest to build a better building without adding to Utah’s air quality problem. To that end, a skeptical team of experts got together, to find a seemingly impossible way, to build a carbon neutral building that cost less than its gas counterparts. From there Project: Open was born, a first of its kind development to be 100% powered by the sun, open sourced, and cheaper than natural gas. Today the initiative is growing with a wide range of developers and together we are making history. Together we are improving our air. We hope you join us.
