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Advanced Energy Trains Volunteers to Build Houses BetterAugust 21, 2000
In Georgia, Advanced Energy trained site supervisors from both the Cobb County Habitat affiliate and Home Depot. The training took place at Home Depot's corporate headquarters and was hosted by Mark Dorman, Hom
Mike Barcik of Southface Energy Institute in Atlanta will be providing ongoing technical assistance for this project. Cobb County Habitat already has a second house lined up to be built to these standards. In Maywood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Advanced Energy trained Proviso Habitat volunteers and a large contingent of L-P employees, spear-headed by regional communications manager Mary Jo Malach. The future owner of the home also joined in the training.
"As part of our training, we explained building science principles and why these houses are being built differently," says Arnie Katz , senior building science consultant for Advanced Energy. "Then, we went over some of the construction details they'll be using." Advanced Energy has done similar work to promote sustainable building practices in low-income housing, including the design of and construction assistance with the Kinston E-House in North Carolina, a project that evolved in response to the devastation left behind in the eastern part of the state by Hurricane Floyd. With the backing of industry partners like L-P and Home Depot, the houses in Cobb County and Maywood will achieve not only the implemented standards and features in the Kinston E-House, but also those recommended for future Kinston E-Houses. ( Read more... )
Advanced Energy's involvement in the Cobb County and Maywood projects reflects an ongoing commitment to make the spaces in which people live, work, and learn healthy, safe, durable, comfortable, affordable, and environmentally responsible, and to make these spaces technically practical, economically feasible, and available to all. Through our Affordable Housing program and our SystemVision™ philosophy and training, Advanced Energy's building science team will continue to help building industry professionals and volunteers achieve successful change. For more information on Advanced Energy building science training, activity, and partnerships, please contact Keith Aldridge at kaldridge@advancedenergy.org or (919) 857-9034.
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In a cooperative effort with organizations like Louisiana-Pacific, Home Depot, Building Science Corporation, Southface Energy Institute, and Domus Plus, Advanced Energy recently trained volunteers from Habitat For Humanity in the purposes and execution of incorporating building science principles into new, affordable housing construction. Trainees are working to build houses that will achieve the GreenStone Engineered For Life™, U.S. Department of Energy Building America, and U.S. EPA/DOE 
e Depot's project coordinator for the Habitat house. Site supervisors will be overseeing volunteers working on a house sponsored by L-P and Home Depot as part of the DOE funded 
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"As we hope to see Kinston E-House strategies implemented in future affordable housing construction in North Carolina, we hope to see these Habitat chapters build all of their new houses this way in the future," says Katz.