Ken Riead – EnergySmart Institute

Ken Riead wrote a new post 2 years, 2 months ago

The need for certified home energy raters is growing quickly. Excellent full or part-time work for students up to retirement. Control your own schedule.

There are over 8 billion dollars in rebates allocated to […]
Ken Riead wrote a new post 2 years, 6 months ago

President Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. This act includes some excellent incentives for residential new construction that are guaranteed to save energy and prepare residences to become […]
Ken Riead wrote a new post 2 years, 10 months ago

Energy ModelingWe hear a lot about Global Warming and the need to save energy. Energy prices are rising and we are told to conserve. But, how dRead More
Ken Riead wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago

Do you find it difficult to breathe? Not because of your health or your lungs, but because of all the viruses, droplets, and other nasty things we never thought about before? With the advent of Covid 19, we h […]
Ken Riead started the topic Using HERS Raters for Energy Code Compliance Inspections in the forum Help for Energy Code Officials 5 years, 1 month ago

Information in this topics is related to how certified home energy raters (HERS Raters) can perform energy code compliance inspections on behalf of code inspectors.
Ken Riead started the topic Updates on EnergySmart Contractor Program in the forum EnergySmart Contractors 5 years, 1 month ago

The EnergySmart Contractor and Teams Certification Programs are administered by the EnergySmart Institute. This innovative program was introduced at the 2010 RESNET Conference and was later rolled out under two initiative names by RESNET: Certified EnergySmart Builders Program and the Certified EnergySmart Contractor and Teams Programs. The Builder…[Read more]
Ken Riead replied to the topic Questions from the Optimized Sketchup for Energy Modeling Course in the forum Questions from the Optimized Sketchup for Energy Modeling Course 6 years, 7 months ago

I have a question about the Optimized Sketchup course: Can you have a similar course that has ways to calculate various roof types, cantilevers and overhangs? Thank you.

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