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Durable, Illiquid, Efficient, and Thoroughly Unsexy: Building Envelopes vs. Climate Change

April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1837 border war, air conditioning efficiency, air source heat pump, amy ellsworth, building retrofit, buildings and housing workgroup, cadmus group, carbon footprint, CDD, climate change, climate zones, CMS, consulting industrial complex, Consumers Energy, decarbonization, DNR, DTE, DTE Energy, EGLE, electrification, energy usage intensity, environment great lakes and energy, EUI, HDD, heat pump, illiquid, insulation, insulation retrofit, jeannette lezaks, jeremy kraft, Leila Mekias, liquidity, mary templeton, michigan council on climate solutions, Michigan DNR, Michigan EGLE, michigan saves, mini-split, mr. slim, residential energy, retrofit, SEER, slipstream, split system heat pump, spray foam, TRC companies, uppco, Upper Peninsula, wsp, Yooper, yoopers

Building envelope retrofits aren’t very flashy. But they’re a crucial way to address the climate crisis.

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On-Site Energy Training Kicks Off In Marygrove With DWEJ and Southwest Solutions

April 23, 2016August 15, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments chemical bank, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, eric douglas, Guy Williams, Kevin McNeely, Kimberly Hill Knott, Leila Mekias, southwest housing solutions, southwest solutions, talmer bank, tcf bank, west side of detroit, workforce development

Southwest Housing Solutions hosted a cohort of trainees from the Detroit Housing Commission who were learning the art and science of building envelope retrofits, air sealing, and insulation installation as part of a workforce development program.

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