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Julieann Summerford
- Associate Director of Implementation

Julieann Summerford joined HESCHONG MAHONE GROUP, INC. in February 2004, as a Project Manager. She is currently an Associate Director at HMG. She has more than nine years of experience in designing and implementing residential energy efficiency programs, ranging from new construction including building design and the installation of ENERGY STAR appliances and lighting to encouraging policy changes and incentive programs to encourage energy efficiency in affordable housing.   Ms. Summerford played an integral part of launching the first multifamily new construction program in the state.

Ms. Summerford oversees all program implementation at HMG which include the following programs: utility multifamily new construction (SCE: California New Homes Program and PG&E: Multifamily New Homes Program), comprehensive, whole building approach to the rehabilitation of existing multifamily buildings (SC and SCG: Designed for Comfort and Enterprise Community Partners: Green Communities Grant technical assistance), 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 served by SCE.

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 served 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.

For a second consecutive term, Ms. Summerford is serving on the board of the California Association of Building Energy Consultants (CABEC) as 2004 Chair.  CABEC works to improve energy consulting by encouraging its members to learn about the State of California’s building energy regulations, building energy analysis, energy conservation technologies, ethics, compliance documentation, and other matters that contribute to the professional standards of those engaged in energy consulting.

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), Behavioral, Energy, and Climate Change Conference, International Energy Programs Evaluators Conference (IEPEC), and CABEC Annual Conference and Regional Meetings.

Ms. Summerford has served on the board of the California Association of Building Energy Consultants (CABEC) and as 2004/2005 Chair. 

Ms. Summerford serves on the Board of Governors of the California Housing Coalition.

She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning for the University of California, Davis.