Affordable Home Performance National Demonstration Project - An Introduction
Affordable Comfort, Inc. is producing a demonstration project in conjunction with the ACI Home Performance Conference April 7-11, 2008. This existing home will be retrofitted with state-of-the-art products and installation techniques in order to enhance energy savings, occupant comfort, and health and safety. The site will be featured during the conference and thereafter through the consumer and trade media, as well as publication of the research results. It is located just ten minutes from downtown Pittsburgh and is representative of tens of thousands of similar units built in the mid 1900’s.
The project will be monitored by MaGrann Associates who will provide a comprehensive home assessment, baseline testing, analysis of previous energy bills, recommendations prioritized with cost estimates, field training of crews about how this job is different from standard practice, pre-dry wall inspections and/or thermal by-pass check list, post-work field measurement and verification to ensure that the performance improvements have been achieved.
The builder for the project will be William C. Asdal of Asdal Builders, llc, of Chester, N.J. Bill Asdal is a Building Performance Institute accredited contractor who is the 2006 Green Remodeler of the Year awarded at the Green Building Conference, the 2000 National Remodeler of the Year, and was recently inducted into the NAHB National Remodeling Hall of Fame.
The Building Performance Institute, Inc. is supporting the project with outreach efforts into the manufacturing community to support the whole house approach to home performance improvement and in coordinating the marketing and media opportunities.
