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Recognition for championing better building performance…
Advanced Energy honored for building green before it got hot
 Raleigh, N.C. (November 26, 2007) — Advanced Energy has been awarded one of 25 Legacy Awards by the Energy and Environmental Building Association (EEBA) at the annual Excellence in Building Conference in St. Paul, M.N. for its efforts in creating economic, environmental and societal benefits through innovative and market-based approaches to energy issues. John Tooley, Advanced Energy’s senior building science consultant, was recognized with a separate Legacy Award for his work developing standards and test protocols for mechanical air distribution and interacting relationships. Masco’s Environments for Living, a program developed by Advanced Energy, also received one of the 25 awards.
“The Legacy Awards are the first of their kind to recognize the significant work done by the pioneers in building science,” notes Kathleen Guidera, EEBA Executive Director. “Their passion for better building performance has provided all of us with a higher building standard that can be applied to homes across the country.”
The awards were part of EEBA’s 25th anniversary celebration and honor significant contributions made in the last 25 years to promote and develop building performance as it relates to the science of new home construction.
“We are pleased to receive this award because Advanced Energy’s Applied Building Science team strives to help the building industry produce better products while increasing profits and avoiding callbacks through training, consultation, applied research and program development,” said Keith Aldridge, managing director of the ABS team, who accepted the award on Advanced Energy’s behalf.
Advanced Energy received the Legacy Award for its commitment to a future in which energy needs are met at reasonable costs and the least negative consequences. Among its many achievements, EEBA noted the following programs and research as part of Advanced Energy’s many contributions:
- North Carolina Heat Pump Skills Center (1986-1994) where 800 HVAC technicians were trained each year on the proper installation and maintenance of heat pumps;
- Exemplary Home Program (1988-1992) including sponsoring the N.C. Residential Energy Forum in 1989, which codified what have become the national standards for high performance homes;
- Duct Diagnostics and Repair Training Program (1992-1996) through which more than 200 companies were trained to perform duct-related diagnostics and repairs, and standards on combustion safety and pressure balancing were developed (and became the national standards);
- High Performance New Homes Program (1996 to present) through which more than 130,000 high performance new homes were built, including those that were part of the first new home program to guarantee high performance, the first national high performance guarantee program, and Environments for Living, the largest high performance home program in history;
- SystemVision Program (1999 to present), the nation’s first and only guaranteed high-performance affordable housing program (with energy and comfort guarantees backed by Advanced Energy) that has completed 1200 homes in North Carolina and expanded in 2007 to include supportive housing.
Advanced Energy was also honored for a number of research programs including the Southeastern Closed Crawlspaces research, the nation’s first definitive research that demonstrated energy, durability and comfort benefits of closed crawlspaces in the southeastern United States; Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives, the nation’s first study to look directly at the link between high performance homes and improved occupant health; and Performance of High Performance homes in Phoenix, AZ, the nation’s first comparison of the actual energy and comfort performance of high performance guaranteed homes versus Energy Star and code-built homes.
John Tooley was recognized for work he did with co-honoree Neil Moyer in 1986 while they were with Natural Florida Retrofit, Inc. Tooley discovered and researched the feasibility of many new methods for making HVAC systems more efficient; was one of the first to recognize and explore the problems caused by pressure differentials; and developed the standards and test protocols for mechanical air distribution and interacting relationships, now known throughout the industry as MAD-Air. He joined Advanced Energy in 1996 as a building science consultant and senior trainer for the nonprofit’s nationally recognized building science training program.
Honorees were chosen from an international pool of submissions and categories included design, production, application, testing, technology, education, awareness, health, safety and educational resources.
About Advanced Energy
Located in Raleigh, N.C., Advanced Energy is a North Carolina and national resource that focuses on industrial process technologies, motors and drives testing, and applied building science. Its facility houses state-of-the-art laboratories for testing and applied research in all three of these evolving disciplines. Advanced Energy creates economic, environmental and societal benefits through innovative and market-based approaches to energy issues. For more information, visit www.advancedenergy.org. |
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