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Weatherization and Indoor Air Quality
Air sealing is one of the best ways to lower heating-and-cooling bills for many home weatherization programs, and especially so for the federal Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). Most homes receive blower door-guided air sealing to ...
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Quality Management Systems: Those Who Abandoned You May Come Home
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Month after month, you review your maintenance agreement numbers and find that they are dwindling each time you look at them. The last few years may have been tough in a lot of different areas ... [continue reading]
Let's Play Stump the Chump!
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Send in your stumpers! You know - that problem house, symptom or combination of symptoms that confounded the homeowner and challenged all your building science savvy to solve. Send BPI a description of the problem &... [continue reading]
Air Sealing and the CAZ
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After I described how air can get sucked down the chimney and vent connector and flue, and out the draft diverter of the gas water heater, and into the basement, the mother, who was now ... [continue reading]
Sales Up, Profits Down? Wondering Why?
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To understand the phenomenon of sales being up and profits being down, you first have to understand how 90–95% of current company owners in our industry got started. This may not be your story, but ... [continue reading]
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HPC Working For You: Climate Change & Carbon Reduction
HPC develops new approaches to federal, state and local policies that promote growth in the residential energy efficiency sector through ...
Shilpa Sankaran
New Report Shows Big Jump in Net-Zero Energy Homes
Net-zero energy homes seem to be growing their way out of a purely niche market. The number of zero energy ...
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