A couple of utilities in Wisconsin are training contractors to provide whole-house services to their customers. Find out how these utilities are priming the market for home performance services.
 

Teams of builders, designers, architects, and building products manu facturers have formed to bring energy-efficient homes to the market. The tests and monitoring of the homes they built shows that systems engi neering really works.
 

Contractors get many advantages from training and certification pro grams. Here is a discussion of these advantages, as well as an updated reprint of our useful Guide to Training Programs for Home Perfor mance Professionals, with a special focus on those that certify.
 

Commercial-size residential kitchen fans are appearing in homes every where, creating hazardous backdrafting problems where there is not enough makeup air. Bruce Manclark discusscs the problems and solutions.