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SEON Member, Duane Case, Employs Afghan Refugee. Photo Credit: Kyle Glenn

SEON Member Employs Afghan Refugee

One of SEON’s goals is to help build a more diversified workforce in the building trades, by focusing on training and employing more non-traditional workers. One of the members of our network, Duane Case, who is a professional home builder in Bellows Falls, has been temporarily mentoring and employing an Afghan refugee who has recently relocated to the Brattleboro Area.

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SEON sustainable home tour - ask builders questions

SEON’s 6th Annual Sustainable Home Tour

The Sustainable Home Tour showcases homes and the design/construction teams whose work demonstrates a commitment to high performance building, sustainable materials, durability, indoor air quality, and renewable energy. It’s a “Show & Tell” opportunity where you’ll be taken on a virtual tour of the home and sustainable features will be highlighted. Learn about the technologies and processes that make these homes sustainable. This is a great opportunity to ask questions of the builders.

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Sustainable Home Tour 2021

Sustainable Home Tour showcases homes and the design/construction teams whose work demonstrates a commitment to high performance building, sustainable materials, durability, indoor air quality, and renewable energy. It’s a “Show & Tell” opportunity where you’ll be taken on a virtual tour of the home and sustainable features will be highlighted. Learn about the technologies and processes that make these homes sustainable. There is always an opportunity to ask questions of the builders.

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Guy Payne, Executive Director of SEON - a building science nonprofit - gives a presentation for GOLab

GO Labs Wood Insulation

Joshua Henry, President of GO Lab, and Guy Payne of SEON, gave a presentation to SEON’s Building Science Guild (BSG) about the planned roll-out of their wood fiber insulation products – loose, batt, and board – which are renewable, biodegradable, non toxic wood fiber insulation for the residential and light commercial construction market. With the close of so many paper mills in Maine, the wood industry has been in search of products and processes that utilizes one of Maine’s primary assets and invigorates new life in the mills.

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