Green Home Reference Guide
Green Home Reference Guide by Debra Little and Steve Easley Debra is a Real Estate agent and a Certified Appraiser and Steve is a Building Science Forensic Expert who collaborated on this Green Home Reference Guide for use in PG&E training for Realtors and Appraisers. Click here for Green Home Reference Guide Webinar Part 1 Click here to download a PDF or simply view content below. ... Green Home Reference Guide Energy Efficient Features ... Envelope Assembly type- 2X6, SIPs, ICF, alternating studs… Air/Shell seal- Attic Air/Shell seal- Crawl Air/Shell seal- Wall Insulation R value- Attic___, walls___, floors___ Min 10 inches in attic? Insulation QII - Quality Installation; no gaps, voids Infiltration- Blower Door test results ______CFM@50 Advanced ...Continue Reading!
BPI-Home Energy Rater Interview with Aaron Husak
BPI-Home Energy Rater Interview with Aaron Husak Tonight well be interviewing Aaron Husak, a BPI Certified Trainer who has spent the last 6 years focused on helping homeowners improve their quality of life with energy efficiency and renewable energy. His background in business management and marketing helped him co-found Anchors Aweigh Energy, a company in San Diego that focuses on HERS ratings, BPI assessments and energy efficiency products. Husak then moved on to teach over 125 BPI candidates on BPI standards, whole house building performance and combustion safety. In 2008 Aaron was a sales and marketing manager for Clean Power Systems, with...Continue Reading!
DOE-GEE 13 Cedar Virginia Test House Update
DOE-GEE 13 Cedar Virginia Test House: Incredible Shell Sealing Tonight We'll explore what it takes to create a workforce capable of producing the tight, performing houses that we'll need to achieve our 2020 and 2030 energy use goals. BTW, we are not on track to meet them with the status quo. Finding and training a competent labor force is the second most often heard complaint that I hear from my contractor and program operating friends. (First is finding customers willing to pay what good Home Performance work costs) The problem can be approached from both a small and a large perspective. After our...Continue Reading!
G.E.A.R. Membership Added Value ScreenCast
G.E.A.R. Membership Added Value ScreenCast Explore all the added value features G.E.A.R. members are enjoying! GEE’s invested decades, developing and refining the expertise necessary for successful energy wise house flipping, providing an array of free educational services to our many Green Building partners. While continuing our commitment to provide free information, growing requests for in depth training has lead to our offering an added value service, G.E.A.R. (Green Earth Alliance of Renovators). Constantly developing in content, this subscription membership is available for a $29 monthly fee or $299 annually for greater savings. [vimeo width="800" height="475"]http://vimeo.com/36103709[/vimeo]Continue Reading!
Forum On Dry Climate Home Performance 2012
Irvine 2012 Forum Dry Climate Home Performance Flexibility is one of the benefits of working on your own projects so we're flexing and changing the plan for this Tuesday's Webinar. I made a last minute decision to attend the Forum On Dry Climate Home Performance in Irvine this week. The focus of this year's event is working toward Net Zero Energy homes. What is working? How well does it work? How difficult is it? The organizers have been very specific. We want to hear real data from real projects as opposed to modeling and projections from Manual J, EnergyPro, or any other instrument....Continue Reading!
G.E.A.R. Added Value Membership Launch
G.E.A.R. Launch Added Value and Registration Process Over a year in the making, GreenEarthEquities is ready to launch its 2012 Added Value Membership Service! GEE's invested decades, developing and refining the expertise necessary for successful energy wise house flipping. For years we provided an array of free educational services to our many green building partners. As part of our completely redesigned website we've added hundreds of hours of webinars and training videos and continue to upload value packed information. We're excited to debut this new and improved site to better share decades of our expertise and provide a user friendly forum for a...Continue Reading!
How Low Is Too Low (cfm50 readings)
How Low Is Too Low? cfm50 Readings & ASHRAE 62.2 That's the challenge I gave the crew at the beginning of the project. On 13 Cedar, you may remember, we started out at 8000 cfm50 on that leaky old balloon framed farm house. Kevin and Dave at IBACOS would like 422 cfm50... the same goal we had on the Homsy house in Fresno. We exceeded that goal with some heroic shell sealing by Rogelio and the California Crew... but that was a stucco house on a slab... so a lot easier to reach the numbers. I told the Virginia Crew that we absolutely...Continue Reading!
110110 Is This Property A Deal?
Is This Property A Deal? 955 W Euclid, Clovis CA 93612 Greetings Planetsavers Last week's Field Trip to 955 Euclid was a real eye opener. I hadn't expected that we would find a real deal to buy but that may have been what happened. We have submitted an offer on the property based on our inspection and the comps provided by Jennifer. The group had a lot of good suggestions and we focused on a new strategy which will: Still do all of the Energy Package. Include a reduced Wow! and Done Package Use rental and refi as an exit strategy Provide significant positive cash flow Ride the...Continue Reading!
eMonitor Installation: 4404 N. Eddy Fresno CA Part 2
eMonitor Installation 4404 N. Eddy Fresno CA Part 2 This video is offered as part of GEE’s eMonitor Program. Part 2 provides step by step training on electrical panel labeling, eMonitor installation, circuit breaker - channel selection and wiring as well as using the website interface. [vimeo width="600" height="425"]http://vimeo.com/34689917[/vimeo]Continue Reading!
eMonitor Installation: 4404 N. Eddy Fresno CA Part 1
eMonitor Installation 4404 N. Eddy Fresno CA Part 1 This video is offered as part of GEE's eMonitor Program. Part 1 provides step by step training on the preliminaries necessary for installation. From reviewing shipped contents and connection options to mounting a weather proof box (should you choose exterior placement) and electrical panel circuit identification. [vimeo width="600" height="475"]http://vimeo.com/34639972[/vimeo]Continue Reading!
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