I don’t typically write about our client work, but a new web tool we have created is in my opinion, pretty darn cool. As you’ve seen on HY-brid’s home page, we have a client, Focus on Energy, that Hoffman York has helped market for more than 8 years. As Wisconsin’s statewide energy efficiency and renewable energy resource, Focus works to educate residents and businesses about the benefits of using less energy and being smarter when they’re using it.

A really exciting new tool we’ve just launched with Focus is a website for the new Live Efficiently with Focus home assessment tool. It‘s meant to help homeowners interested in energy efficiency, but don’t know where to start. It’s also designed for those who’ve made a few changes, but aren’t sure what to do next. In our time working with Focus, both of our organizations have come to realize many Wisconsinites (and this of course extends to homeowners everywhere) think their home is energy efficient, but aren’t exactly sure how efficiently they’re living. This tool might help them determine where small or large improvements can be made.

Live Efficiently with Focus takes you through a series of questions about your home, the products in it, your energy supply and how you are using energy within your home. All the while the tool is keeping tabs on your answers. The result is an assessment of your home and your energy lifestyle. Pretty cool stuff.

After questions are answered, there are results and reporting features that help to get the user started. Tips and solutions are offered along the way. A user can even choose to create an account and or email their report to a consultant if they want to take the next step.

In the end, this is a residential tool but remember the bigger story here is that becoming more energy efficient is a lifestyle change. HY-brid helps businesses communicate their sustainability efforts but no matter how many hours are put in at the office, we all go home and use our TV’s, appliances and other household energy users. My hope is you take a walk through the site (for those not in Wisconsin, when you get to the county and city section, enter Milwaukee for both) and learn a bit about yourself and how you are consuming energy within your home. What you learn may surprise you. Take what you learn back to the office. Who knows, it may just spark some more efficiency practices in your building.

If you want to find out how you can assess your sustainability practices, or, if you simply want to learn more about Hoffman York and HY-brid, send us a message, we would like to hear from you.

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