In 2010, Washington State University (WSU) conducted a survey to look at market-based residential energy audits as part of a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The results of that survey were published in the July/August 2013 issue of Home Energy magazine in an article titled “Past, Present, Future: Directions in Single-Family Energy Auditing and Retrofits.” The report on which the article is based provides a wealth of information related to existing home energy efficiency retrofits and can be downloaded here.  

 

We would like to get your feedback as part of a needs assessment regarding the use of round robins as a potential QA tool to support education and training efforts of home performance industry organizations such as RESNET, ACCA, and BPI. WSU intends to develop a generic guideline—“How to implement a round robin”—and would like to get your opinion on the usefulness, scope, and specific round robin organizations and standard/manual/guideline areas to prioritize. We want to know:

Please feel free to join conversation by commenting below. If you have questions, please contact Michael Lubliner at lublinerm@energy.wsu.edu and David Hales at halesd@energy.wsu.edu.