Wired

    Here is the utility shed.  There are telephone wires, computer wires and many electric cables.  There are wires from the breaker box to heat pump compressors, and wires from the compressors to the room units.  There are wires to parking lot lights and wires to wall lanterns.  There are even grounding wires for water and gas pipes.

    The big pipe in the middle is our fire hydrant main.  It's not hooked up yet, but will tie in to the smaller shiney pipe down on the left.  The smaller copper pipes are water pipes.  The eight orange tubes, also not hooked up, are for radiant heating.  
    On the left is a condensing boiler.  It will provide warm water for heat as well as hot water to the sinks.  It is called a condensing boiler because it can operate at low temperatures and gets extra heat by condensing the water vapor produced by combustion. 
    The coils, hanging up on the right, are for air conditioning.  They run to and from the room units and will be attached to the compressors outside.  As soon as these are connected and the town inspector approves the wiring, we can finish insulating and putting up some wall board.

    Here is a picture from the other end of the shed.  On the right are time clocks for turning the lights on and off.  They are hooked up to light sensors on the outside so that, even though the clocks activate the lights, they won't go on until it gets dark.