Spring 2010 Energy Efficiency Classes
Class Details & Registration
| Program Title | Deep Energy Reductions - The Thousand Home Challenge | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Time, Location | June 22 (Tuesday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm) San Jose--Pipe Trades | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Also Offered | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Americans cannot reduce their collective carbon footprint to sustainable levels unless they drastically reduce the energy use of existing homes, which accounts for 21 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Toward that end, Affordable Comfort launched the Thousand Home Challenge, which is designed to: - Reduce total annual site energy consumption of existing North American homes by at least 75 percent. - Apply indicators of home energy performance that are readily measurable and verifiable, and accommodate a wide range of climates, housing types, and fuels. - Exemplify a performance-based systems approach to improving the comfort, safety, air quality, efficiency and durability of homes. - Demonstrate deep energy reductions through a combination of efficiency measures, renewable sources, community-based solutions, and behavioral choices. - Assemble regional collaboratives for achieving deep energy reductions in existing homes. - Stimulate collaboration, networking, creative problem-solving, economic and workforce development, and innovative approaches to transforming the North American housing stock. In this class Linda Wigington introduces the Thousand Home Challenge, Deep Energy Reductions, and the NorCal Collaborative. Find out why and how deep energy reductions can be the framework to guide investment in existing homes and ultimately lead to transformation of our housing stock. Participants should have a basic understanding of residential building science and home performance and a keen interest in taking residential energy retrofits beyond business as usual and/or achieving local and state greenhouse gas reduction goals. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Audience Level | This class is intended for home performance contractors, policy makers, and others with an advanced understanding of why and how to reduce energy consumption in existing homes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Instructor(s) | Linda Wigington Linda Wigington is the founder of and has been associated with the ACI (Affordable Comfort) Conference since its inception in 1986 and serves as special projects director. She has been a technical consultant for residential utility programs throughout the country. Linda serves on the Editorial Board of Home Energy magazine and in the past was an advisor for Habitat for Humanity International's Green Team. She received the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy's 2002 Champion of Energy Efficiency Award. Her current interest is demonstrating the feasibility of achieving deep energy reductions in existing dwellings through the North American Thousand Home Challenge. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Resources | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost | No fee for this program | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | AIA: 6 (HSW/SD) NCQLP: 0 (Learn more about AIA continuing education and NCQLP.) |
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