PROFILE
Lloyd Hamilton
Age: 61.
Residence: Rhinebeck. A native of Salem, Mass.
Family: Married with three sons and one daughter.
Company: take over Verdae LLC Rhinebeck in 2003.
On the Web: www.verdaellc.com
NYSERDA Awards winners include:
Taitem engineering Ithaca. Funding: $ 300.000. The National Association of Home Builders Research Center in partnership with Timberline Panel Co., Cambridge, thermal foam, water buffalo, and other manufacturers. Funding: $ 300.000. Syracuse-based Green Homes Americ and national organization of integrated building and construction solutions. Funding: $ 600,000. The Levy partnership in New York City: $ 290,000.
for homeowners who want to transform their house into a cold drafty, models of energy efficiency and can t afford construction repairs, it s NYSERDA to save. Clean energy arm of the State Government has awarded $ 1.8 million for the five teams to perform basement to attic energy retrofits in older houses to learn how to lower the cost of energy efficiency improvements. Based in Rhinebeck Verdae, building performance consulting company, received a $ 300,000 $ 1.8 million.
Verdae owner Lloyd Hamilton and his team will conduct experiments on three Hudson Valley houses the spring and summer, which could include adding foam insulation and moisture barrier to the walls of the cellar, add rigid insulation and moisture resistance for exterior walls and roofs, and replace the existing heating and hot water supply with small furnaces and tankless units.
Help Verdae is Todd energy energy auditor Pascarella expert with offices in Kingston and Delaware Counties; the contractor Brian Mulder Mulder construction group of Delaware County, and product manufacturers and the Dow Chemical Company. Verdae must show measurable benefits in terms of water leaks and insulating homes, plus improved indoor air quality with improved health and safety of home s. However, the main purpose of this study is cost reduction. Funded by NYSERDA team should lower labor costs are much, creating at least a 50/50 split between the materials and labor.