This course counts as 16 hours towards the Sustainable Practices Certificate Program or 1.6 continuing education credits.
Course Format
2-day Hands-On Workshop
Course Description
On the road toward sustainability, we often overlook an opportunity with tremendous environmental impact – our existing homes. With simple and cost-effective improvements, we can significantly reduce energy use while simultaneously improving indoor air quality and comfort. Updating existing homes should be at the top of our energy solutions list.
In this two-day hands-on class, learn how to assess, prioritize, and implement improvements from general contractor, recovering straw bale builder, and building science expert, Bill Lucas, owner of Colorado based GB3 Energy Solutions. Topics from identifying common air leakage and insulation issues, to distinguishing what improvement are cost effective, and what are just costly.
Instructor Bio
Bill Lucas is an experienced green builder and licensed general contractor who believes passionately that efficiency is first. Bill is co-founder of GB3 Energy Solutions and currently works throughout Colorado making existing homes more comfortable, healthy, and energy independent by improving energy fundamentals – air sealing and insulation – believing that the best heating and cooling system is one that is not used.
Bill is a Building Performance Institute Certified Professional, a LEED Accredited Professional, a licensed RESNET Home Energy Rater, a NAHB Green Building Program Verifier, and a graduate of CSU’s first Green Building Certificate Course.
Originally lured into green building by straw bale homes in the early 1990s, Bill has managed and/or built a number of progressive homes, including two featured on the cover of the Boulder Green Building Journal and one on the front page of Conservation Magazine. Bill holds a BA in Japanese and a BS in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado. Bill has lived in Colorado since 1972 and currently lives in Northwest Denver in a near net-zero 1921 brick bungalow with his wife Jennifer.
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