4 Tips to Strengthen Your Resume and Land a Hot Job Your resume is only one piece of the job hunting puzzle. It is a one dimensional representation of your life’s work, and getting it right may mean investing many hours and a lot of effort to polish it. Don’t downplay its… Continue reading “4 Tips to Strengthen Your Resume and Land a Hot Job”
Solar Women Summer Series: Success in the Employee-Owned Solar Business Model The Solar Women Summer Series continues with Co-Owner and Director of Strategic Planning & Initiatives at Namasté Solar, Amanda Bybee. Namasté Solar provides PV design, engineering, installation, maintenance, and consulting services to residential, commercial, builder, non-profit, and government customers throughout the U.S., with… Continue reading “Solar Women Summer Series: Success in the Employee-Owned Solar Business Model”
Free Lecture: Sustainable Roofing? There’s an App for That! It would be great to be able to sell the latest energy and environmental features of modern commercial roofing systems, but it can be a challenge to find tools that help you quantify the benefits for your clients and customers. How… Continue reading “Free Lecture: Sustainable Roofing? There’s an App for That!”
What Does “Data-Driven Farming” Mean? Data-Driven Farming is the thoughtful use of big data to supplement on-farm precision agriculture. It means having the right farm data, at the right time, to make better decisions that improve long-term profitability. “Big data” is a big buzzword. Everyone… Continue reading “What Does “Data-Driven Farming” Mean?”
John Siegenthaler Reviews Heat Pumps In the article below, John Siegenthaler, Principal of Appropriate Designs, explains how air-to-water heat pumps offer new opportunities for hydronic pros. At the end of the article, John runs the numbers to answer the question: “How does the performance of… Continue reading “John Siegenthaler Reviews Heat Pumps”
New Course: Land Boundary Master Class We recently launched the “Land Boundary Master Class” in partnership with BNP Media and Jeff Lucas. I’ve come to learn that Jeff is highly regarded for his honesty, humor, and vision for where the industry of land surveying is going… Continue reading “New Course: Land Boundary Master Class”
How Massachusett’s Alternative Energy Credit Prices Will Impact Heat Pump and Biomass Operating Costs We passed the Massachusetts “Clean Heat Bill” in July 2014. The final bill number is S. 2214. The bill created a production-based incentive, similar to solar PV renewable energy credits (SRECs), for renewable thermal technologies including solar thermal, air source heat… Continue reading “How Massachusett’s Alternative Energy Credit Prices Will Impact Heat Pump and Biomass Operating Costs”
Free 65 Minute Lecture on Biomass Thermal Storage + Free Invitation to Maine Alternative Energy Expo 2014 Interphase Energy, a Maine-based leader in supplying central pellet heating equipment throughout North America, is hosting Alternative Energy Expo 2014 at their Portland, Maine facility this Friday, September 12th, 2014 from 2:00 – 8:00 p.m. EDT. Free to the public, the… Continue reading “Free 65 Minute Lecture on Biomass Thermal Storage + Free Invitation to Maine Alternative Energy Expo 2014”
Learn how to Design and Build Best in Class Commercial Building Enclosures from Terry Brennan All commercial building enclosure designs are not created equal. All too often, critical factors like airflow, insulation, vapor barriers, condensation, longevity, construction cost, and time frame are not given proper consideration. This results in an underperforming structure, an unhappy client,… Continue reading “Learn how to Design and Build Best in Class Commercial Building Enclosures from Terry Brennan”
John Siegenthaler, Biomass Thermal Energy Council, and HeatSpring Launch Hydronic-Based Biomass Design Course Hydronics expert John Siegenthaler, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC), and the online technical training experts at HeatSpring have teamed up to launch a 10-week online course: Hydronic-Based Biomass Design. The course starts on September 15th. The course is capped… Continue reading “John Siegenthaler, Biomass Thermal Energy Council, and HeatSpring Launch Hydronic-Based Biomass Design Course”
How to Use Cheap Sensors and Mobile Phones to Make People Care About Energy Waste Visibility of energy use is not enough to get people to change their actions, we still need to find a way to make people care to compel them to act. At last week’s Cleanweb Hackathon in Boston, teams focused on… Continue reading “How to Use Cheap Sensors and Mobile Phones to Make People Care About Energy Waste”
Introduction to the new HeatSpring and High Performance Building Institute The new HeatSpring website is now live, and the High Performance Building Institute is your new source for information and courses on high performance building and clean energy. If you only have 15 seconds, read this: Our new HeatSpring website… Continue reading “Introduction to the new HeatSpring and High Performance Building Institute”
Interview with Jason Riback, Co-founder of Vulume I don’t build buildings, but a lot of my colleagues and customers do. So I spend a lot of time at building conferences, reading about buildings, and listening to the most knowledgeable people in the industry teach the skills and… Continue reading “Interview with Jason Riback, Co-founder of Vulume”
Why Online Learning? While there are many benefits to in-person learning, we have found that online learning allows our instructors to dig deeper into course material at a lower cost in a way that’s more inclusive and convenient for everyone. Here are the… Continue reading “Why Online Learning?”
Getting the Most Out of the Discussion Board Much of the learning in our courses takes place on the discussion board. We’ve found that students who actively engage on the discussion board get the most out of our courses. Here are some general guidelines for using the discussion… Continue reading “Getting the Most Out of the Discussion Board”
Organizing Your Time Since there is no specific time when you need to complete your coursework, time management and organization are critical to your success. Here are some tips for organizing your time: Set aside time at least every other day to work… Continue reading “Organizing Your Time”
‘Commercial Roofing Boot Camp’: A new online workshop from Jim Hoff, ARW Magazine, and HeatSpring Jim Hoff is the VP of research at the Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing (The Center) and a longtime industry executive. This spring, he’s teaching a ten-week, advanced design course online for 50 professionals. It’s a details-oriented design course… Continue reading “‘Commercial Roofing Boot Camp’: A new online workshop from Jim Hoff, ARW Magazine, and HeatSpring”
Leveraging your HeatSpring training using LinkedIn You know your HeatSpring training is valuable, but how do you share that knowledge with prospective employers, business partners, or potential clients? One easy, effective way is through LinkedIn, the largest professional social network in the world. This video provides step-by-step… Continue reading “Leveraging your HeatSpring training using LinkedIn”
Two Things You Should Know About the Michigan Solar Industry The Open PV Project ranks Michigan as the 28th best state for solar PV with 7.09 MW of installed capacity. Here are two things you might not know about the Michigan solar industry if you’re not spending a lot of… Continue reading “Two Things You Should Know About the Michigan Solar Industry”
Meet Tom McCormack, HeatSpring’s First ‘Student Advocate’ It’s no secret we’re excited about online and blended learning. Education is going digital – everyone knows it, but there’s a ton of fear and uncertainty about what that future looks like. If online training is the Wild West, then… Continue reading “Meet Tom McCormack, HeatSpring’s First ‘Student Advocate’”