According to the Building Performance Institute, building performance is a systematic approach to improving the comfort, health, safety, energy efficiency and durability of our customers homes and places of work. Comfort is improved by treating the building as a system of processes…
Posts Tagged Energy Star
There is a new program working it’s way through congress right now and hopefully will be part of the upcoming jobs bill. It’s called HOMESTAR or as it’s been called in the media “Cash for Caulkers”.
I thought I’d share some details of the program and how it could be a benefit to our local economy.
HOME STAR was originally proposed by a coalition of….
What exactly does the code mean when it says “high efficacy or low efficacy fixture”? First a couple definitions: The code doesn’t use the term fixture. They use the lighting industry term “luminaire“. This is the housing, lamp holder and ballast if present. Neither does it use the term bulb. It is referred to as a ”lamp”. Efficacy [...]
I’m going over the new state energy code standards for lighting for a project I’m going to start in the spring. I thought I’d provide an overview of the lightig requirements in the 2008 energy code for those of you who haven’t had a chance to get up to speed.
