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"Humanizing Connected Home Experiences" Keynote at 21st Annual CONNECTIONS
Chris O'Dell
Comcast’s senior executive Sridhar Solur will provide the opening keynote: “Humanizing Connected Home Experiences: Using Machine Learning and Voice Control” at the 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference. [continue reading]
Seeking Innovation in Roofing Systems
Sarah O'Connell
Oak Ridge National Lab has partnered with GAF to host a technology challenge on roofing systems. The challenge is part of the online crowdsourcing site, JUMP, and aims to identify innovation solutions for ensuring energy efficient and durable low-slope roofing systems employing concrete decks. [continue reading]
Women in Building Performance: Danielle Putnam
Lindsay Bachman Flickinger
Danielle Putnam is the president of The New Flat Rate, a menu selling system developed to bridge the gap between 21st-century customers and the service industry. Putnam has experience in everything from business development and management to operations and technology. At The New Flat Rate, she handles the day-to-day operations, marketing, advertising, and quality control. [continue reading]
Congratulations to the 2017 Race to Zero Winners!
Stacy Hunt
The Ryerson University and University of Toronto team topped the 2017 U.S. Department of Energy Race to Zero Student Design Competition. They were the grand winners of the event, which was held April 22-23, 2017, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. [continue reading]
Building a Clean Energy Future, Respect for the People Who Will Build It
Efficiency First California
You don’t need to spend a great of time deal in the policy world before you hear a conversation about workforce development. In fact, the Energy Upgrade California incentive program was originally created as a workforce development solution. Flashback to 2008, the Great Recession: contractors were out of work and the economy was in a downward spiral. The incoming Obama administration designed a program to stimulate the economy. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ... [continue reading]
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]
