business Archives - Energy Vanguard https://www.energyvanguard.com/tag/business/ Building science knowledge, HVAC design, & fun Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:04:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 The Building Trades Could Use More Women https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/building-trades-could-use-more-women/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/building-trades-could-use-more-women/#view_comments Wed, 24 May 2017 13:34:11 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=the-building-trades-could-use-more-women The photo above is from one of the home energy rater classes we taught a few years ago. We had 13 students in that class. Only one was a woman. That ratio actually is comparable to what you see in…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/building-trades-could-use-more-women/feed/ 2 A Shortage of Home Performance Jobs https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/shortage-home-performance-jobs/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/shortage-home-performance-jobs/#view_comments Wed, 17 May 2017 12:44:33 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=a-shortage-of-home-performance-jobs Dick Kornbluth was an insulation contractor in Syracuse, New York back in the 1970s. Then he discovered home performance. It’s really the logical place insulation contractors, HVAC contractors, and similar companies to end up. Rather than doing just one job…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/shortage-home-performance-jobs/feed/ 13 In Praise of Those Who Do the Dirty Work https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/in-praise-of-those-who-do-the-dirty-work/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/in-praise-of-those-who-do-the-dirty-work/#view_comments Wed, 08 Jun 2016 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=in-praise-of-those-who-do-the-dirty-work Drywall installers, plumbers, HVAC technicians. All those folks and more do a lot of the dirty work in the construction, maintenance, and renovation of buildings. It’s often not fun. I’ve done it myself, so I know. As a teenager, I…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/in-praise-of-those-who-do-the-dirty-work/feed/ 9 Pushing Through the Hard Parts https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/pushing-through-the-hard-parts/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/pushing-through-the-hard-parts/#view_comments Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=pushing-through-the-hard-parts In the summer of 1981, my grandparents gave me a 1961 Volkswagen Bug. I had just gone through my sophomore year at Centenary College of Louisiana without having a car and really wanted to have one for my junior year.…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/pushing-through-the-hard-parts/feed/ 9 17 Reasons I Love Working with Buildings https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/17-reasons-i-love-working-with-buildings/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/17-reasons-i-love-working-with-buildings/#view_comments Mon, 29 Jun 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=17-reasons-i-love-working-with-buildings Yesterday I had lunch with Robert Bean and Eric Griffin at the ASHRAE conference here in Atlanta. As we talked about how we got into the field of building science, I began thinking of the reasons I love doing what…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/17-reasons-i-love-working-with-buildings/feed/ 9 My Passion for Building Science Education and Bad Contractors https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/my-passion-for-building-science-education-and-bad-contractors/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/my-passion-for-building-science-education-and-bad-contractors/#view_comments Mon, 27 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=my-passion-for-building-science-education-and-bad-contractors When asked to name our passions at the conference I went to in Portland, Oregon last week, I had to think about it a little bit. I had just been discussing what it is we aim to do at a…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/my-passion-for-building-science-education-and-bad-contractors/feed/ 24 My First Affordable Comfort Conference https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/my-first-affordable-comfort-conference/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/my-first-affordable-comfort-conference/#view_comments Wed, 23 Apr 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=my-first-affordable-comfort-conference In 2005 I went to my first Affordable Comfort conference, now usually called the ACI national conference or just ACI. The year before I’d gone to a related conference but by 2005, my first business in this industry (ab3 energy)…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/my-first-affordable-comfort-conference/feed/ 3 Is It Time To Give Up On High-Performance Homes? https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-high-performance-homes/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-high-performance-homes/#view_comments Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=is-it-time-to-give-up-on-high-performance-homes To those of us in the industry, the term “high-performance home” has a clear definition. It’s one with a good building enclosure. That is, it’s airtight and insulated well. It has properly sized, installed, and commissioned heating and air conditioning…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-high-performance-homes/feed/ 26 A Home Performance Trailer as Good as Pap-Paw’s Truck https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-home-performance-trailer-as-good-as-pap-paws-truck/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-home-performance-trailer-as-good-as-pap-paws-truck/#view_comments Wed, 12 Mar 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=a-home-performance-trailer-as-good-as-pap-paws-truck The truck below is the one I spent my teenage summers in and around when I worked for my grandfather, the most senior of the Allison Arthur Baileses. It was a great truck and had almost everything on it that…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-home-performance-trailer-as-good-as-pap-paws-truck/feed/ 1 A December Building Science Bonanza https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-december-building-science-bonanza/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/a-december-building-science-bonanza/#view_comments Wed, 27 Nov 2013 05:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=a-december-building-science-bonanza Let me drop a few names on you: John Straube, Peter Yost, Scott Pigg, Keith Williams. Impressed? If you know who those folks are, you probably realize how much you could learn from them. If you don’t recognize the names,…

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