{"id":22278,"date":"2014-02-19T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=42ee34a09cbadecc743ddea0eee11298"},"modified":"2014-02-19T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T08:55:08","slug":"should-home-builders-pay-the-energy-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/should-home-builders-pay-the-energy-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Home Builders Pay the Energy Bills?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Rick Chitwood suggests seven measures to transform the HVAC industry, including a requirement that new home builders pay the energy bills for the first three years        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/should-home-builders-pay-energy-bills\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/home-building-new-construction-green-energy-efficient-structural-insulated-panel-07_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Should home builders pay the energy bills?\" width=\"144\" height=\"96\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three questions have been nagging at Rick Chitwood over the past 5 or 6 years. First, why is the <span>HVAC<\/span><span>(Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). Collectively, the mechanical systems that heat, ventilate, and cool a building.<\/span> industry in California, where he lives and works, so pathetic?<\/p>\n<p>Second, why have California&rsquo;s strict energy standards, which have been in effect since 1978, not corrected the problem?<\/p>\n<p>Third, how is it that he, who came to the HVAC business through a nontraditional route, has become a leader in the industry?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7359,12482,12483,12484,830],"class_list":["post-22278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-energy-bill","tag-energy-bill-guarantee","tag-home-builder","tag-home-building","tag-hvac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}