Energy & Environmental News
WORKFORCE ANALYSIS
Report: Energy-Efficiency
Employment Surges
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analysis by the U.S.
Department of Energy reveals
that about 32 percent of the
.5 million employees in the U.S.
construction industry work on
energy-efficiency projects, includ-
ing glaziers and installers of doors
and windows.
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The agency’s second annual U.S.
Energy and Employment Report
(
USEER) shows how changes in
America’s energy profile are affect-
ing employment in key sectors of the
economy.
The 2017 USEER also shows that
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.2 million Americans are employed,
in whole or in part, in the design,
installation and manufacture of ener-
gy-efficiency products and services, The men and women who install windows are part of an energy-efficiency workforce
a field that added 133,000 jobs in that exceeds 2 million employees, according to the Department of Energy.
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016. Energy-efficiency employment
is defined as the production or instal- tor have seen an increase in the per- cient building materials (such as doors
lation of products certified by the centage of workers who spend at least and windows) in the United States.
Environmental Protection Agency’s 50 percent of their time on energy-ef-
Currently, more than 300 door
Energy Star program or installed ficiency-related work, rising from 64.8 and window companies are listed as
according to the program’s guidelines. percent in 2015 to 74 percent in 2016. Energy Star partners.
Almost 1.4 million energy-efficien-
Finally, an improved survey meth-
cy jobs are in the construction indus- odology identified almost 290,000 CODES
try. In addition, construction firms manufacturing jobs producing Energy EPA Aims to Improve
involved in the energy-efficiency sec- Star-certified products and energy-effi- Energy Star Calculations
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) will use feedback from
STANDARDS
industry stakeholders to help devel-
op a new methodology for analyzing
doors and windows in the National
Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC)
Certified Product Directory (CPD).
The analysis could be used in future
revisions of the Energy Star specifica-
tion for windows, doors and skylights.
The EPA says it’s proposing the new
approach to better understand all the
window technologies that manufac-
turers have certified and which com-
binations can achieve different per-
View Dynamic Glass Publishes
Environmental Product Declaration
View has published an environmental product declaration (EPD) for its View
Dynamic Glass, verified by UL Environment. The EPD certification, combined with
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The EPD for View Dynamic Glass earns points in the LEED certification pro-
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tification through reduced energy consumption, increased user controllability
and improved thermal comfort and daylighting.
formance levels.
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