Energy Efficient Green Building Insitute - Dallas County Community Colleges

The following class is highly recommended for anyone interested in making certain their home is an energy efficient as is possible with the most current technology available.

Bill (farm raised and city settled) and Stephen (a science teacher) both have now (11-22-05) completed the class for "Secrets of a Texas Net Zero Home & How to Improve Your Own" at a local community college which started October 3, 2005. It is described online at http://www.cedarvalleycollege.edu/eegbi/ce.htm. The teacher, Jim Sargent, is excellent, and the class was full with 31 attending. To date this class has been our best investment. Jim Sargent considers rammed earth to be one good alternative in Dallas, if you know what you are dealing with. He said the main negative for rammed earth is resale value. Few people know or understand rammed earth. We consider that to be a positive since we may be able to use that fact to fight any high tax appraisal value the city or Dallas County may attempt to saddle the home with after completion.

Jim told us these facts outside class as the class is about home energy basics and only occasionally mentions rammed earth. However, all the information presented in class is priceless information if you want to build any solid energy efficient home. The $110 cost for the course is gained over and over each class with priceless information.

The above notes about the training by Jim Sargent were written 11-22-05.

This class will be repeated early in 2006 and is highly recommended. All the students in the current class were saying nothing but strongly positive comments about the class. Every session was full with no spare seats. Register early if you want to attend the next series of classes. This and other classes are also online at http://www.cedarvalleycollege.edu/CommunityMembers/EnergyEfficientGreenBuildingInstitute/ContinuingEducationCourses.html