Fifty students registered for Marc Rosenbaum’s ten-week Zero Net Energy Homes course in the Fall 2012. This is a graduate-level course, with a rigorous workload and lots of homework. We incorporated a final project in which students are asked to design a zero net energy house, submitting plans and elevations, a wall section, an HVAC plan, R value calculations, and an annual energy model. The calculations are done in a series of simple calculators Marc put together in Excel.
Nearly everyone made significant contributions to the discussion, but we’d like to recognize thirty students who put in the extraordinary effort to finish the final project. This the first graduating class, and they deserve public recognition for what they’ve accomplished:
Bob Lemaire
David Holmstrom
Rob Lewis
Brenden Maloof
Gerry Smith
Al Prendergast
Neil Randol
Rich Kinkel
Michele Sopher
Tobias Richon
Al Heath
Ben Hemberger
Erin Crafts
Nick Corsetti
Mary Rogero
Chris Lee
Evan Hardcastle
Jesse Smith
Chris Redmond
Clare Dow-Ramirez
David Sayers
Peter Brooks
Newell Pledger-Shinn
Brian Wohlleb
Tim McCarthy
Rheannon DeMond
Matt Coffey
Greg Milne
Ruben Valenzuela
Some of these graduates will be showing their work at the BE Conference in March. If you have a few extra minutes while you’re walking the show, take a minute to check out their work and congratulate them on what they’ve accomplished. These are the are some of the up-and-coming professionals who can help lead the conversation in years to come.
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