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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:
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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.
Our Staff Our Work
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.
Our Staff Our Work