Industry veterans continue to design and build homes like it's 1980 and hope to cost-effectively achieve ZNE by adding lots of (expensive) insulation, much more efficient (expensive) HVAC, and a whole lot of (very expensive) PV.
Rick Chitwood
Owner
Chitwood Energy Management, Inc.
Rick Chitwood, BSME, principal Chitwood Energy Management Inc., founded 1985, is an expert in energy-efficient residential building construction, diagnostic testing, and performance evaluation. Rick uses his home performance knowledge; training contractors, project consulting, doing field research, helping update the California Energy Code, co-authoring a book - Measured Home Performance, and was recently inducted into the Building Performance Industry Hall of Fame.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
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10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
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This session is the kick-off for a comprehensive and continuous six-part series throughout our two days together in Long Beach.
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1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
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Too many industry professionals think ZNE new homes and ZNE retrofits, are a technical problem - when the most significant barrier is really a people problem - or actually a set of people problems.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
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Performance and energy usage from brand new homes are all over the map. With so much confusion and misinformation in the building industry about how to achieve high performance it is easy to get off track.
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