CDAE 106

Cody Renaud

Summary of Internship

This semester I worked with Allan Bullis through Efficiency Innovations. With several other students, we created a group called Common Sense Energy. Within this group there were a variety of jobs and skills that were developed. This ranged from marketing, sales, promotion, and physical labor. Throughout this semester, this group promoted energy efficiency and conservation by creating flyers to hand out to local residents and students. Many of the flyers we handed out went to houses downtown that had fairly massive ice dams hanging from their roofs, which reveals that heat is escaping the house. After learning to do some door-to-door sales promotion for energy audits and efficiency, Allan took each group member on at least one residential energy audit. During the audit I learned how to do a blower door test and use a thermal camera to identify where a house is losing the most heat. I also had the opportunity to learn how to blow cellulose insulation with Allan’s brother Lee. Throughout the semester I attended a few energy committee meetings, with Allan, to learn about what policy and energy efficiency changes the Chittenden County was trying to develop. The last couple weeks of my internship I coordinated and managed a table in the Davis Center, which promoted energy efficiency and conservation. At the table we educated the public about several types of insulation, how to use the thermal camera, and tips on how to conserve energy in one’s dorm/home.

 

 

COMMON SENSE ENERGY: 2011

Allan Bullis, CEM, LEED AP
allan.bullis@gmail.com
Efficiency Innovations, LLC
802-238-2123