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| Building Science: Volume 1, Issue 3 SEON’s Sustainable Energy Outreach Network Newsletter |
| In this issue • Message from the Executive Director • Our members in action! • SEON Training • Quote of the Month • Interesting Links • Welcome New Members • Thank you, Members |
| Message From SEON’s Executive Director Welcome to spring! Here are some of our highlights from the month of March. ► We are now on Instagram! Come follow us at @buildingsciencetoday ► You will notice our website is broadening our outreach to include homeowners. We want homeowners to see our website as a valuable source of information even if some might consider it very elementary. Embedded in that information will be SEON’s value orientation for builders with a commitment to high-performance construction and continuous learning of all members of the team. ► We still have some SEON’s spring courses available to take. Please see below or go to: buildingscience.org/winter-spring-2023 ► SEON has now started a category on our website: Recommended by SEON. Why? Because we want to do all we can for our members – starting with reviewing and recommending their products for the public, for builders, for future builders, for the world. Our first recommendation is: GoLab’s new product—TimberFill—is available April 1. Read about it here. ► If you are interested in having a product or service reviewed, please contact me: guy@buildingscience.org. Guy Payne Executive Director |
| Our Members in Action – Then & Now |
| • Look at Robert Swinburne’s photo on his initial planning sketches for an addition / renovation for “my very first client. Late 1990’s.” @robertswinburne on Instagram • Can you guess what the contraption was in the middle of this basement floor? (Peter Yost) • The program was simple. Garage on the ground floor with a conditioned family room above. And maybe you could reuse some of the timbers from the old barn in the new space? (Mindel and Morse) • Waterproof plaster you didn’t know you needed. (Hempstone) • Blower Door Testing: Hand-in-Hand with Commissioning (Mike LaCrosse / CXAssociates) • What Are the Benefits of Attic Insulation? (Farnum Insulators) • Here’s a Brattleboro Before and After, by Owl’s Head Builders. • Plans For A Sustainable Future (New Wright Builders Owner) • This new line of Diablo Cutting Wheels and Sanding Discs. (WW Building Supply) • Four Key Reasons for Building with a Vented Rainscreen. (475 High Performance Building Supply) • A Well-Designed Life Means Bringing the Outside In (Sierra Pacific Windows) |
| Quote of the Month |
| Insulation isn’t just about meeting code requirements, it’s also not just about “filling the cavity.” Rockwool (@rockwoolna on Instagram) |
| Interesting Links |
| ► An alternative to copper that’s less carbon-intensive? ► A lithium hydroxide conversion plant, the Guben Converter, in Germany will be the first of its kind in Europe. ►The Rollout of Virtual Power Plants. |
| Welcome New Members • Housewright Construction, Inc, Newbury, VT Thank You Returning Members • All Seasons Construction, Springfield, VT • Duane Case, Bellows Falls, VT • Farnum Insulators, Dummerston, VT • GPI Construction, Inc Brattleboro, VT • HELM Construction Solutions LLC, Brattleboro, VT • Integrated Solar Applications Corp. Brattleboro, VT • JA Saccoccio Workshop PLLC, Brattleboro, VT • Mindel & Morse Builders, Brattleboro, VT • Owl’s Head Builders, Guilford, VT • Sierra Pacific Windows, Red Bluff, CA • Silver Maple Construction/Zone 6 Energy, New Haven, VT • The Wadsworth Company LLC, Jamaica, VT • Wright Builders, Inc, Northampton, MA |
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