IS YOUR HOME
READY FOR
SUMMER?
BY JEANA DURST
Do you know how your home would score
so. Between piano lessons, soccer games, work
may not have time to consider our home’s energy
of our energy consumption. (And if you are like
me, you may think of saving energy in terms
of adjusting the thermostat and turning out the
lights when you aren’t in a room.)
look at these things. And that’s where Jonathan
Handey and his team at Eco Three come in. For
a dent in energy waste, one home at a time. With
another sweltering Birmingham summer on the
and launched Eco Three. “We would have clients
from time to time who would request energy
audits, and no one was doing that,” he says. At
the same time, he also noticed more and more
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June 14, 2010, he started Eco Three, an energy
services, including insulation installation and
But what makes their services unique is the
level of informed analysis driving them. And
an audit process just makes sense. In a day and
entertainment apps provide us with detailed
investment like home improvements with any less
precision? In other words, the days of throwing
hoping for change are gone.
Handey says Eco Three usually gets involved
when homeowners notice some kind of
discomfort, such as an upstairs that won’t cool
“We take all of that data and put it into a sample
report and provide a list of recommendations,
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