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Julieann Summerford
Associate Director of Implementation

Ms. Summerford is an Associate Director of Implementation at the Heschong Mahone Group, Inc.  She has over 10 years of experience in designing and implementing energy efficiency programs in both the utility and consulting sectors.  She has designed and implemented programs ranging from new construction (multifamily and single-family) to rehabilitation of existing multifamily buildings to policy, education, benchmarking, and outreach programs aimed at transforming the market. 

Ms. Summerford oversees HMG’s program implementation which includes, or has included, the following programs: utility multifamily new construction (SCE: California New Homes Program and PG&E: California Multifamily New Homes Program), comprehensive, whole building approach to the rehabilitation of existing multifamily buildings (Statewide and regional: Designed for Comfort and Enterprise Community Partners: Green Communities Grant technical assistance), developing energy efficiency handbooks and green rehab toolkits, Energy Efficiency-Based Utility Allowance (EEBUA) policy efforts for housing authorities, the Affordable Housing Energy Efficiency Alliance (AHEEA) program which provides design assistance, energy efficiency design training, newsletters, an energy efficiency handbook, and facilitates energy efficiency design charrettes to the affordable housing industry.

Ms. Summerford is also leading the effort to benchmark San Diego’s Balboa Park Cultural Partnership of museums – the first population of museums in the country to benchmark their buildings.  This effort entails training the museum staff to utilities their benchmarking accounts as well as working with SDG&E to automatically upload billing data. 

Since 2002, she has played an integral part in HMG’s delivery of multifamily energy efficiency design training throughout the state.  Along with the team at HMG, Julieann helped to develop a training curriculum consisting of two class types: 1) An overview of energy efficiency design strategies and practices and 2) an advanced, hands-on training where participants model a project.  The training is geared toward architects, builders, and Title 24 consultants.  The training serves to promote utility-sponsored design assistance and design team incentives and program, and present cost-effective means of designing, modeling, and building energy efficiency into new multi-family construction projects, as well as resources that are available to assist the efforts to improve the energy efficiency of the multi-family projects.  The American Institute of Architects accepted the curriculum for the workshop, offering four continuing education credits for architects. 

Prior to HMG, Ms. Summerford served as liaison to the Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR® program for new homes serving California, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.  She also managed the High Efficiency Appliance and Lighting Program, which offered incentives to builders who install ENERGY STAR® qualified appliances and lighting fixtures in residential new construction projects.  The program entailed working with manufacturers to promote ENERGY STAR® products to builders and directly with builders to influence their purchasing decisions on appliances and lighting fixtures, training their sales staff on how to promote the ENERGY STAR products in the new homes. 

Ms. Summerford has worked with the Flex Your Power Campaign to promote ENERGY STAR new homes and ENERGY STAR products in new homes to consumers statewide. 

Ms. Summerford has assisted utilities, state governments, and regional groups participating in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program. Ms. Summerford worked with utilities, state governments, regional groups, the building industry, and energy design consultants to maximize the value of their participation in the Homes program. Ms. Summerford also helped facilitate a new ENERGY STAR performance threshold that reflected California’s Title 24 Energy Code.

Ms. Summerford revived SDG&E’s residential new construction program and expanded the program to include the State’s first program focused on efficient multi-family housing (low- and high-rise) and the installation of ENERGY STAR appliances and lighting in new construction.  Ms. Summerford also worked with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to launch and implement a multi-family new construction project. She provided training to PG&E field representatives on how to market efficiency effectively to various subsectors of the multi-family new construction market, especially the affordable and non-profit housing markets.

Ms. Summerford has presented at numerous conference including West Coast Green, Multifamily Buildings, Apartments 2007, Real Estate 2008, National Housing & Rehabilitation Officials (NAHRO), Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET), California Association of Building Energy Consultants (CABEC), International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC), Housing California, San Diego Housing Federation, Non-profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH), Public Housing Director’s Association, Affordable Comfort, Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference, and Housing and Urban Development conferences.

Ms. Summerford’s publications include, Energy Efficient Redevelopment Projects, California Redevelopment Journal, Shifting Allowances, Home Energy Magazine, Oct. 2005, The Carrot and Stick of Multifamily New Construction. ACEEE Summer Study, with Nehemiah Stone, Charles Ehrlich, and Tony Pierce, 2002, and An Integrated Whole Building Diagnostic Approach Improving California’s Existing Multifamily Buildings.  ACEEE Summer Study, with Elizabeth McCollum, 2008.

Ms Summerford serves on the Board of Governors of the California Housing Consortium and on Association of Energy Service Professionals Implementation Committee.  Ms. Summerford has served on the board of the California Association of Building Energy Consultants (CABEC)and as 2004/2005 Chair.  Ms. Summerford received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning for the University of California, Davis.

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