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Building Science Innovators (BSI) provides expert consulting services established by scientific, engineering, hands-on experience and education in the design and building construction, renovation, remediation and salvage industries.  BSI staff have analyzed and resolved a multitude of challenging building science problems over a wide range of issues which range from:
  • kWh consumption,
  • moisture control,
  • half a century durability,
  • historic buildings,
  • conversion of commercial buildings to new building types,
  • residential, and
  • governmental. 
​BSI worked through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its trial by fire. Examples of recent work were designing a pharmacy/cyclotron for a major hospital and salvaging a home that was victim of unusual flooding.
Key pitfalls of the building science industry are reliance upon industry-standard building codes or construction practices that are often greatly out of step with local conditions.  Our staff is qualified to deal with such problems; we hold PhDs from prestigious universities, certifications from numerous building and engineering industries and have run US government grant-funded research. BSI is certified to run the top, industry-standard, integrated energy and moisture flow software called WUFI.
BSI has been deeply invested as an intervenor in the 2015 Entergy New Orleans Integrated Resource Planning process and its aftermath which has run for three years starting in June 2014.  BSI has provided extensive expertise as advocates in energy efficiency and renewable energy, including the development of renewable portfolio standards (RPS), feed-in-tariffs, net metering standards, permitting requirements, tax structures and other state policies. We have a particular interest and experience in integrating building science with primary energy conservation. For example, we have proposed and continue to promote unique pilot programs which would simultaneously promote home efficiency improvements, time of use consumption, electric battery storage, community solar in a manner that doubles the cash flow for these investments.
Our staff has served on the design committee for home performance testing of the Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET). They have given numerous presentations on advanced building energy design going way beyond energy efficiency.  These include: “First Principles of Primary Energy Conservation”, “You’re Hot Because You’re Not Wearing Underwear”, “Inverted Demand Compliant Construction”, “Customer Lowered Electricity Price” (CLEP), and “Designing the Standard of Sustainability for Homes”.
Most recently, CLEP was a semi-finalist in an international design competition to slow down and reverse Climate Change.
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​Building Science Innovators, LLC
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118 • phone: 504-343-1243 • fax: 360-868-1243
  • Myron.Katz@EnergyRater.com
  • www.BuildingScienceInnovators.com  
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  • Home
  • Innovations
    • PV with ESD - Grant Proposal to DOE 2014
    • Customer Lowered Electricity Price
    • Integrated Resource Planning Cannot Be Calculated
    • A Vented Roof with an Unvented Attic
    • Membranes Improve Insulation Efficiency
    • Building Retrofits
    • Closed Crawlspaces in Historic Homes
    • Moisture & Mold
    • Moisture Problems can interfere with Energy Efficiency
    • Buildings Without Diapers
    • Primary Energy Conservation
    • Standard of Sustainability for Homes
  • Utility Regulation
    • System Resilience and Storm Hardening UD-21-03 >
      • ProRate Energy's Direct Testimony
      • Local Letter Writing
    • Draft TOU Docket Enabling Resolution - 2020
    • CLEP is Proposed as Opt-in for all ENO's Customers - 2019
    • Bright Minds Challenge
    • BSI-Opines on Net Energy Metering - 2016
    • Gaslighting of Gaslighting - 2018
    • LA House of Representatives Resolution on CLEP - 2017
    • CLEP Battery Pilot - 2016
    • CLEP Community Solar Pilot - 2016
    • Pure CLEP Pilot - 2016
  • Customer Lowered Electricity Price
    • Fighting Climate Change Mitzvah Project
    • CLEP's Definition Simplified
    • ProRate
    • CLEP Lowers Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Financially Benefiting All Ratepayers
    • RFI-DOE-FOA-0002291-Connected-Communities
    • GSSC Talk
    • Align by Design
    • Community Solar
    • Utility Regulation
    • Community-Scale Energy >
      • Tiny Energy Bills
      • Public Policy
      • Solar or Batteries?
    • Electric Utilities
    • Commercial Customers
    • Appliance Manufacturers
    • Architects
  • About BSI
    • Clients' Projects
    • Services >
      • Norman Witriol
    • History
    • Paul Washington
    • Our Firm
    • Our Staff >
      • Myron Katz
    • Our Work
    • Publications >
      • Preservation Resource Center - Talk on 25Feb21
      • Interventions
      • Grants
      • Competitions
      • Journal Articles
      • Presentations
      • Awards
  • Contact