Rating Industry Achievement Awards

2008 Winners

To recognize outstanding achievements in the rating industry, RESNET established the RESNET Rating Industry Achievement Awards. At the 2008 RESNET Building Performance Conference RESNET Board President Philip Fairey presented the achievements awards selected by the RESNET Board of Directors.

The 2008 recipients are:

California Energy Commission
RESNET Program Leadership Award

The California Energy Commission has led the transformation of the rating industry in the California housing market. Through its leadership over 30,000 homes are inspected and verified by certified home energy raters. This remarkable achievement has been realized through Bill Pennington's leadership in incorporating building performance verification for new and existing homes in the state's energy code, Title 24.

Over 25% of all homes built in the state are inspected by certified energy raters to document the home's energy performance. In addition over 15,000 existing homes had their duct systems tested by raters at the time of the replacement of the home's air conditioning system.

Through the leadership of the California Energy Commission home energy raters have become a viable independent market based building inspection industry.

RESNET Board President Philip Fairey presents to Bill Penning
of the California Energy Commission the 2008 RESNET
Program Leadership Award

North Carolina Energy Star Program
RESNET Market Transformation Award

The North Carolina Energy Star Program has been instrumental in transforming the state's housing market to high performance ENERGY STAR Homes. Through its efforts the number of ENERGY STAR Homes increased by over 390% since the program was started in 2005. The North Carolina Energy Star Program promotes ENERGY STAR Homes through a web site, consumer education, support of the state's rating industry, coordination with the state's home builder associations and utilities, and an annual conference. The 2007 Conference drew over 300 attendees. The program has grown so successful that it is now funded through state appropriations. In addition the state's two largest utilities offers lower rates for consumers who purchase ENERGY STAR Homes.

The North Carolina Energy Star Program is a public/private partnership between the North Carolina State Energy Office, the state's rating industry, Duke Energy, Progress Energy, Greenville Utilities, Advanced Energy and Environments for Living. The program is managed by the Appalachian State University Energy Center. The goal of the program is to mainstream high performance homes through transformation of the state's housing market to ENERGY STAR. The program serves as an umbrella of all ENERGY STAR efforts in North Carolina. This gives consumers, builders and raters a single point of contact.

RESNET Board President Philip Fairey presents to Laurel Elam of
the North Carolina Energy Star Program the 2008 RESNET Market
Transformation Award

EnergyLogic
RESNET Industry Innovation Award

This award is for iRate®, a comprehensive energy rating organization management tool. iRate® is developed by EnergyLogic Inc., a Colorado based HERS Provider and Training organization. EnergyLogic, like many rating firms, found itself struggling to deal with a variety of information problems. There a vast amount of data that is generated in the course of conducting an energy rating. Additionally, the daily requirements of scheduling, billing and management of both staff and clients pose daunting information management problems The answer for EnergyLogic was iRate®. This web approach to managing daily operations and all of the data that is generated by rating activities provides a unified, comprehensive tool that is accessible anywhere in the world. It provides management, raters, and others real time information on both the data and the status of operations. By integrating both REM/Rate™ and QuickBooks® applications, iRate® becomes the platform through which all of a companies work is managed. iRate® is under continual development as it is used by EnergyLogic to conduct its rating operations and is available to the HERS community by subscription.

RESNET Board President Philip Fairey presents to Steve Byers of
EnergyLogic the 2008 RESNET Industry Innovation Award