Building Performance Association
Building Performance Association serves the industry through advocacy, careers, education, membership, and networking.
Applications for Building Performance Institute (BPI)’s Jon Siemen Memorial Scholarship are now open. The Jon Siemen Memorial Scholarship has been developed to honor the life, memory, and work of Jon Siemen, who passed away in March 2015. Jon started his career in weatherization in the late 1970s, when he began working at Community Action in …
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In April, the Building Performance Association put on their 35th annual home performance conference. And, just like many of our members, we’ve been on quite a journey to get where we are today. We started as Affordable Comfort in 1986, but some of you may know us as ACI. No matter the name, we’ve always …
Last week, our 35th annual home performance conference took place with live, virtual sessions over the course of 5 days. If you missed it, you can still register for on-demand sessions, which will be available until October. Now that the live conference is over, this also means that this is our final week of stories. …
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Our 35th annual home performance conference kicks off next week, which means we’re also nearing the end of our interview series. This week, we’ve got Q&As with Michelle Griffith of DeVere Weatherization & Construction Services, Jamez Staples of Renewable Energy Partners, Inc., and Dan Thomsen of Building Doctors, Inc. This series highlights 35 amazing people …
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This week was our 35th annual home performance conference, which took place virtually over 5 days. It’s been a week filled with live, educational sessions, local Austin music, wellness classes, and networking happy hours. Conference week also means we’re nearing the end of our 35 interviews with the wonderful people who represent our industry in …
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Our 35th annual home performance conference is in just a couple of weeks, and we’re nearing the end of our interview series. This week we’ve done Q&As with Danielle Sass Byrnett of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), Chris Dorsi of the Montana Weatherization Training Center, and Ann Edminster of Design AVEnues LLC. …
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In the final weeks leading up to our 35th annual home performance conference, we continue our interview series. This week we’ve done Q&As with Katrin Klingenberg of Passive House Institute US, Jack Laverty of Columbia Gas of Ohio, and Anthony Tortomasi of CMC Energy Services, Inc. This series highlights 35 incredible people who work in …
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Officially one month out from our 35th annual home performance conference, we continue our interview series. This week we’ve done Q&As with Tiger Adolf of UtilityExchange.org, Ely Jacobsohn of Energy, Livability and You, LLC, and Jason Scheurer of BEST Techs Contracting Design Build & Remodel, Inc. This series highlights 35 incredible people who work in …
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While we had hoped that our national conference would be a hybrid event (both in-person and virtual) in Austin this year, at the beginning of last month, we announced that we were moving to an all-virtual platform. As always, safety is our priority and we felt that the risk to you and our staff through …
Continuing our interview series celebrating our 35th annual home performance conference, this week we’ve done Q&As with Keith Aldridge of the Building Performance Association, Roderick Jackson of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Maddie Koewler of the National Association of State Energy Officials. This series highlights 35 amazing people that work in our industry by …
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