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Jim Gunshinan's Blog – July 2012 Archive (2)
I Confess the Need for Building Standards and Worker Training
I was discussing an upcoming article with my colleagues at Home Energy magazine about the Standard Work Specifications (SWS) being developed by DOE for single home, multifamily, and manufactured housing retrofits, and it brought to mind an experience I had as teenager, the need for confession, and the importance of standards.
Here is my confession:
When I was in high school I worked after school and summers doing building maintenance at a local elementary school. (Brag…
ContinueAdded by Jim Gunshinan on July 19, 2012 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments
The "Snackwell Effect" Revisited
(I posted this blog to the KQED Quest site a few years ago, but a recent discussion begun by Tom Delconte in the General Forum has raised the issue again. Hope to—paraphrasing Evan Mills in his response to Tom—make a mountain into the molehill it really is.)
Recent articles in USA Today and California's Flex Your Power e-Newswire discussed the phenomenon known in energy efficiency circles as "take back" or the "Snackwell Effect" (see "…
ContinueAdded by Jim Gunshinan on July 11, 2012 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
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