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The Legends of Home Performance: Sam Rashkin
Macie Melendez
Sam Rashkin is a chief architect for the Building Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy. He's also one of our featured Legends of Home Performance. [continue reading]
Open the Door (or Window) To Greater Well-Being And Energy Efficiency For Your Customers
Tom Herron
Homeowners want a comfortable indoor environment whether they live in Buffalo, New York or Santa Fe, New Mexico, but constantly adjusting the thermostat to achieve comfort quickly gets old. With today’s consumers growing increasingly health conscious, many want to let more natural light in their homes for its numerous health benefits and to make their interior look and feel more inviting. One of the ways they can reach all these goals is by ... [continue reading]
HPC Working For You Series: Federal Policy
Kara Saul-Rinaldi
The Home Performance Coalition (HPC) undertakes policy research and policy advocacy to advance whole-house energy efficiency retrofits. This work is done to expand the energy efficiency home retrofit market by ensuring that the proper policies, regulations and legislation are enacted to create more jobs in the retrofit industry while reducing costs for the homeowners and making their homes more comfortable and healthy. As you will read below, these efforts take the form of stakeholder engagement ... [continue reading]
Get Smart: Leveraging Electric and Gas Smart-Meter Experience
Mike Wayman
Water utilities have been slower to adopt smart meters and related infrastructure than their electric and gas counterparts. A smart water meter typically consists of a small device called a meter interface unit (MIU) attached to a traditional water meter to record and send detailed water flow measurements to the utility. [continue reading]
Micro-housing for Veterans
Rob Solomon, on behalf of GoFundMe
That was our pledge in the military and in my time as a police officer. When you retire or move on, that doesn’t go away.” [continue reading]
A Closer Look at Connecticut's Zero Energy Homebuilding Competition
Amber Schilberg, on behalf of Energize Connecticut
At the Better Buildings By Design conference, Ann Edminster spoke about the growing interest in net-zero-energy buildings saying, “This [net-zero-energy construction] is a market opportunity. This field is going to explode.” [continue reading]
Angry Air!
Paul Raymer
John Tooley said, “Air is like crooked rivers, crooked people, teenagers, and cheap labor. It always seeks the path of least resistance.” He didn’t say that Angry air is Noisy air. Air doesn’t like being forced through corrugated, flexible ducting, pushed around corners, and made to force open dampers. It resists being made to perform in a way that it doesn’t want to. It takes more and ... [continue reading]
Energy Efficiency is Increasingly Popular With Home Buyers
Gary Ashton
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is a trade association based in Washington. It boasts more than 140,000 members across diverse industries such as construction, remodeling, property management, finance, home building, design, building product manufacturing and more. According to information provided by the NAHB, home buyers are increasingly focused on energy efficiency. In fact, it is one of the most desirable features of a home, and builders are starting to respond by implementing solutions that ... [continue reading]
Liz Robinson Stepping Down After 33 Years at the Energy Coordinating Agency
Andrew E. Huemmler
After 33 years at the helm, Liz Robinson, Executive Director of the Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA), is stepping down. Since the early 80s, Liz has championed energy efficiency and social responsibility in Philadelphia, earning a national reputation for excellence in creating and delivering solutions to the energy problems of low income Philadelphians. She founded ECA with the goal of furthering social justice and economic development by saving energy and solving related housing problems. By making the ... [continue reading]
Women in Building Performance: Darlene Jackson
Lindsay Bachman Flickinger
Darlene Jackson is a program associate on the Residential team at the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA). In this role, she provides support in the coordination and implementation of HVAC SAVE and Illinois Home Performance. Before MEEA, she worked as a Policy Analyst for Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity through the graduate public service internship program. [continue reading]
