Welcome to the 2023 RESNET® Conference!

Everything you need to know as we kick of the second and final day of the 2023 RESNET Conference.  

In this session, Phil Crone of Leading Builders of America will share the near and mid-term outlooks for the housing market.

In this session, Ryan Meres, RESNET® Program Director, will share relevant updates on RESNET®’s cutting-edge programs and how they affect the industry. 

On May 1st-2nd, 2024 RESNET® is proud to host a Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. that is open to all. The 2024 RESNET® Policy Forum is a unique opportunity to lobby for your local and state energy-related initiatives and effect change in your own backyard. In this session, Carl Chidlow, WSW will dive deeper into exactly how this works and what to expect. 

RESNET's QA standard is seen by the housing industry as the Gold Standard for inspecting, testing, and rating a home's energy performance.  RESNET continually strives to make the QA process more efficient and effective. This is of great importance as the industry faces a competitive environment. Over the past few years, significant changes have been made and more proposed to accomplish these goals.
 
In this session, the RESNET QA Team will explain the changes that have been made and are being proposed to make the QA process more effective and efficient. This session is not targeted solely to QADs but rather is aimed at HERS® Raters, builders, and program sponsors to be aware of these changes.

Water is increasingly a great concern. Water and sewer rates are increasing faster than energy costs. Many parts of the nation are facing supply constraints. What are the stakes for builders with the issue? How does water efficiency play into this equation? This session will feature KB Homes, a large national production builder. The builder is seen as a national leader in water efficiency. In 2022 the builder had over 1,700 homes HERSH20® rated. These homes are calculated to save over 84 million gallons of water annually and save homebuyers over $562,000 annually in water bills. KB Home has also committed to having all new developments in Arizona, California, and Nevada HERSH20® rated and certified under the EPA’s WaterSense for home program. This session will explore why this national builder has committed to water efficiency, what it means to its bottom line and why other builders should commit to greater water efficiency. 

The 2023 CEE Integrated Home Competition is pleased to present awards to seven innovative connected home devices that exemplify the four tenets of the CEE Integrated Home vision: energy savings, demand flexibility, consumer amenity, and security. The CEE Integrated Home is a connected, fuel-neutral, interactive, and efficient home where devices and systems effectively communicate to provide new value to customers, utility systems, and society. The Integrated Home Competition supports this vision through public promotion of commercially available solutions that are simple, reliable, well-designed, and highly functional.