Energy Solutions for Existing Homes

Event Details

Time: August 15, 2009 at 9am to August 16, 2009 at 5pm
Location: University of Colorado, Boulder
Website or Map: http://conted.colorado.edu/pr…
Phone: 303-492-5148
Event Type: workshop
Organized By: CU Boulder Independent Learning
Latest Activity: Aug 11

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Event Description

NCSP 5139 Energy Solutions for Existing Homes
This course counts as 16 hours towards the Sustainable Practices Certificate Program or 1.6 continuing education credits.

Course Format:

2-day Hands-On Workshop

Course Description:

On the road toward sustainability, we often overlook an opportunity with tremendous environmental impact – our existing homes. With simple and cost-effective improvements, we can significantly reduce energy use while simultaneously improving indoor air quality and comfort. Updating existing homes should be at the top of our energy solutions list.

In this two-day hands-on class, learn how to assess, prioritize, and implement improvements from general contractor, recovering straw bale builder, and building science expert, Bill Lucas, owner of Colorado based GB3 Energy Solutions. Topics from identifying common air leakage and insulation issues, to distinguishing what improvement are cost effective, and what are just costly.

Instructor Bio:

Bill Lucas is an experienced green builder and licensed general contractor who believes passionately that efficiency is first. Bill is co-founder of GB3 Energy Solutions and currently works throughout Colorado making existing homes more comfortable, healthy, and energy independent by improving energy fundamentals – air sealing and insulation – believing that the best heating and cooling system is one that is not used.
Bill is a Building Performance Institute Certified Professional, a LEED Accredited Professional, a licensed RESNET Home Energy Rater, a NAHB Green Building Program Verifier, and a graduate of CSU’s first Green Building Certificate Course.
Originally lured into green building by straw bale homes in the early 1990s, Bill has managed and/or built a number of progressive homes, including two featured on the cover of the Boulder Green Building Journal and one on the front page of Conservation Magazine. Bill holds a BA in Japanese and a BS in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado. Bill has lived in Colorado since 1972 and currently lives in Northwest Denver in a near net-zero 1921 brick bungalow with his wife Jennifer.

Event Details:

Registration for Fall courses begins July 13th

August 15-16, 9am to 5pm University of Colorado, Boulder
$330 - 10% earlybird discount available through July 31, 2009
CU Faculty, Staff and Students as well as current BGBG members receive an additional 10% discount .