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Connecting the Dots: Real Estate and Home Performance
John Shipman
A new type of conversation between REALTORS® and their clients is changing the real estate industry before our eyes. As homebuyers browse Zillow listings and spend their Sundays visiting open houses, their agents are educating them to evaluate not just curb appeal and square footage, but also utility bill costs, comfort, and health. And homebuyers are listening. [continue reading]
Women in Building Performance
Women in Building Performance Initiative
As you may have seen in Amy Beley’s recent blog post, the industry is buzzing after HPC’s 2017 National Home Performance Conference and Trade Show in Nashville. There’s so much energy and excitement brewing around the concept of change. Growth. Possibilities! [continue reading]
The Legends of Home Performance
Macie Melendez
A project long in the making, we're happy to finally reveal some of our Legends of Home Performance videos. We've been working with videographer Debra Little for almost a year now, and she's had the pleasure of sitting down and hearing the stories of several home performance industry heavy hitters. [continue reading]
Parks Associates Highlights New Consumer Research at Pre-show Research Workshop
Chris O'Dell
Research from Parks Associates shows that while familiarity with smart home products is still low, there is more and more interest from consumers to integrate connected products in the home. [continue reading]
Women in Building Performance: Jamie Peters
Lindsay Bachman Flickinger
Jamie Peters is the Director of Client Solutions at EnergySavvy, a software company that aims to transform the way utilities interact with and serve their customers. Peters brings seven years of energy efficiency program experience to EnergySavvy, including launching Illinois’ first statewide Home Performance with Energy Star program, managing large-scale prescriptive and direct install utility programs, and developing tools and training for residential contractors. [continue reading]
Aging Homeowners Drive Growth in Remodeling as Millennials Begin to Gain Footing
Macie Melendez
Homeowner spending on remodeling is expected to see healthy growth through 2025, according to Demographic Change and the Remodeling Outlook, the latest biennial report in the Improving America’s Housing series released in February by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Demographically based projections suggest that older owners will account for the majority of spending gains over the coming years as they adapt their homes to changing accessibility needs. Although slower to move into ... [continue reading]
Industry Unites Around Education at HVAC Excellence Conference
Howard Weiss
HVACR instructors understand that technology is rapidly changing in our industry. To ensure that the training they offer is current and provides the next generation of service technicians with relevant content, hundreds of instructors from across North America gathered in Orlando, Florida for the National HVACR Educators and Trainers Conference hosted by HVAC Excellence. [continue reading]
ASHRAE and IOR Strengthen Partnership with Signing of New MoU Agreement
Allen Haynes
ASHRAE and the Institute of Refrigeration (IOR) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) formalizing the organizations’ relationship, which dates back more than a century. [continue reading]
Why Builders Should Care About Grade I Installation
Stacy Fitzgerald-Redd
Quality installation of insulation matters and if builders aren’t getting RESNET Grade I installation with fiberglass batts then they’re getting a HERS-score penalty, says new fact sheet on Grade I installation of batt insulation from NAIMA/Insulation Institute. [continue reading]
CMC Energy Services to Rebrand Northeast Locations
Cathy Donovan
CMC Energy Services (CMC), a pioneer in the energy conservation industry since 1977 and a certified Women’s Business Enterprise, announces the rebranding of its Competitive Resources (CRI) offices in Connecticut and Massachusetts as CMC. [continue reading]
