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Oct 29, 2026
Jigar ShahHOST
And so that's when we put in CAFE standards and made cars more fuel efficient.
Jigar ShahHOST
And we did all these standards like ENERGY STAR and energy efficiency and all of that stuff.
Jigar ShahHOST
And at the time, people were saying that if we had less energy intensity per dollar of GDP, that our country would go into decline.
Jigar ShahHOST
Today, we use 70% less energy per dollar of GDP than we did when he wrote his paper.
Tony BeresGUEST
And before that was doing residential energy audits for existing homes.
Tony BeresGUEST
My day-to-day work, we do a lot of Energy Star, a lot of DOE Efficient New Homes, multifamily, and I'm a FIAS rater as well, a rater verifier, do a lot of work on FIAS projects.
Tony BeresGUEST
Yeah, just across the board, I guess my focus now is more multifamily than single family, but I still do quite a few single family homes each year.
Tony BeresGUEST
And my reasoning for applying for the board now is it's probably the first time I actually caught the email in time to do it.
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Lindsay EltonGUEST
And as our company grew and our main headquarters is in Chicago and I'm in our Detroit office, Our roles have changed.
Lindsay EltonGUEST
And so I'm in the office more, but working on the higher performance projects like Passive House.
Lindsay EltonGUEST
I do LEED, Energy Star, still call it Zero Energy Ready Homes, but the DOE Efficient New Homes
Molly OlsonGUEST
Program, NGBS, all that kind of stuff.
Aaron SmithHOST
Right, definitely.
Aaron SmithHOST
Jamie, do you see a bridge, you know, in our past lives or my current life, we always thought about, you know, I do Energy Star, I do Indoor Air Plus, you know, I keep maybe going forward.
Aaron SmithHOST
I think Living Building Challenge is at the pinnacle of that.
Aaron SmithHOST
But I've been thinking during your presentation about this, you know, you do Indoor Air Plus, right? you've reached some basic really good health ideas.
Jason BekebredeGUEST
work? Yeah, better building.
Jason BekebredeGUEST
One of those first homes we did at the lake, they wanted Energy Star.
Jason BekebredeGUEST
And so we had kind of started going down that path.
Jason BekebredeGUEST
And after we had done that one, it was like that light bulb type moment where it's like, okay, that was really not that hard.
Andrew WagnerGUEST
We had signed up and so we had used a lot of the education that they had for that.
Andrew WagnerGUEST
And then also the Energy Star program were both two, I guess, huge resources that we utilized.
Andrew WagnerGUEST
It's funny because when you look back at what the expectation was then, it was so much lower than what we would be looking at now.
Andrew WagnerGUEST
Some of the, even the R2000 standards, you know, were so advanced at their time And now that's kind of become almost more of a standard practice.
Anthony CanterburyGUEST
Yeah.
Anthony CanterburyGUEST
So all the data out there can a lot of times be abstracted as a device as well, right? So we've found that a lot of the problem sets out there, like energy efficiency for a building, might require outside weather information and forecasting or historical data through systems like Energy Star and getting or even the power station or supplier that they're using, the energy rates fluctuate extremely quickly nowadays and tracking all of that internal data and making it perform as a device next to the internal metrics of the building, of the heating and cooling systems and lighting, you can solve the problems much more efficiently that way.
Anthony CanterburyGUEST
Because a lot of the problem sets require a little bit forward thinking anyways to do them efficiently.
Anthony CanterburyGUEST
And that scales with the size of a factory or a building, like how much in the future you need to help forecast this information and then how much external data is helpful
Ian FinlaysonGUEST
Then I moved to Boston, really following my wife to Boston and worked in affordable housing.
Ian FinlaysonGUEST
And that was a period when LEED was just really getting going, Energy Star Homes, Enterprise Green Communities.
Ian FinlaysonGUEST
So I spent a couple of years really being the green building person for a large affordable housing developer.
Ian FinlaysonGUEST
And then I went to grad school at MIT and did urban planning with a real focus on the built environment.
Ian FinlaysonGUEST
But we were starting to get towns and cities, so some towns on Cape Cod and cities like Boston and a bunch of the major cities around Boston saying, hey, we should be doing something about green building, should be doing something about climate.
Ian FinlaysonGUEST
We want to do our own thing.
Ian FinlaysonGUEST
And we had seen like folks like Long Island, I think had adopted like Energy Star Homes for residential using HERS ratings.
Ian FinlaysonGUEST
We had a fairly newish new construction utility program that was using HERS raters.
Chrissy KehrlyGUEST
So I'm sharing the fire, houses, and we're going into, let's say a builder's rep, not an agent.
Chrissy KehrlyGUEST
And they so very proudly are like, oh, our energy star rating is 100.
Chrissy KehrlyGUEST
And I'm like, oh, they don't even realize that's where it starts.
Chrissy KehrlyGUEST
That's the base.
Chrissy KehrlyGUEST
You need to be under a hundred.
Chrissy KehrlyGUEST
So our homes that are now sold out were Energy Star certified.
Chrissy KehrlyGUEST
All of their HERS ratings, that's a HERS rating, sorry.
Chrissy KehrlyGUEST
All of their HERS ratings were in the thirties.
Mikah SargentHOST
10 of them were official.
Mikah SargentHOST
SMUD, the IRS, TechClean California, Energy Star, the California Energy Commission.
Mikah SargentHOST
And then the other two were a couple of cost guides that helped it to determine the pricing for the install.
Mikah SargentHOST
And then we have to ask, well, does spending longer on research buy a better answer? Uh...
Mikah SargentHOST
What about perplexity? Well, perplexity took about six minutes.
Mikah SargentHOST
It had 17 sources, and every one of them was official.
Mikah SargentHOST
SMUD, Energy Star, the Energy Department, the IRS, the CEC, and congress.gov.
Mikah SargentHOST
It also said yes and said to do so as a planned project.
Mikah SargentHOST
10 of them were official.
Mikah SargentHOST
SMUD, the IRS, TechClean California, Energy Star, the California Energy Commission.
Mikah SargentHOST
And then the other two were a couple of cost guides that helped it to determine the pricing for the install.
Mikah SargentHOST
And then we have to ask, well, does spending longer on research buy a better answer? Uh...
Mikah SargentHOST
What about perplexity? Well, perplexity took about six minutes.
Mikah SargentHOST
It had 17 sources, and every one of them was official.
Mikah SargentHOST
SMUD, Energy Star, the Energy Department, the IRS, the CEC, and congress.gov.
Mikah SargentHOST
It also said yes and said to do so as a planned project.
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