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The Henger St project marks E3’s first collaboration with our new partner, Hilltop Alliance. This vacant, overgrown home requires significant attention! Due to its small and compact size, it is well-suited for heat pump space heating with a furnace backup. Our typical set of improvements all apply to this projects: As the result of these […]

The Buena Vista St home is a small, 800 sq. ft. house built in 1946. The original scope of work did not include attic or wall insulation, despite there being none, due to budget limitations. Additionally, no funding was allocated for air conditioning, and only a few double-pane windows were to be replaced. However, by

Pittsburgh and Philadelphia row houses built between 1900 and 1930 are notoriously difficult to improve. While their compact structure and shared walls save energy, attics often lack insulation, even in modernized homes. Studies by weatherization agencies have shown that simply blowing insulation into these 3-foot to 1-foot tall spaces does not produce the desired effect.

Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh and E3 collaborated to enhance energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions in the rehabilitation of this Chartiers Ave home. The expanded and modified scope of work included: As a result of these upgrades, the Home Energy Score for the property improved from 1 to 3, with projected energy savings of 34%, excluding

The Ashton Ave home, a project by the City of Bridges Community Land Trust, was slated to undergo a moderate-scale remodel with funding provided by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. This home already has a 95.5% efficient furnace, a relatively new hot water heater, and an R-11 level of insulation in the attic. E3 proposed several

Park Hill is a 167-townhouse complex in East Hills, on the Pittsburgh side of the city’s border with Penn Hills. “This was supposed to be an affordable housing community, mixed income, of homeowners, “said contractor Steve Catranel, whose father helped to develop and build Park Hill in the 1960s. But many early homeowners moved out

Predictive power of Home Energy Score (HES) methodology was first deployed in a project between Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh and Tri-COG Land Bank, who jointly committed to achieving high energy efficiency in a vacant home renovation in Braddock.  The initial pre-construction energy audit of this 2 BR home showed the predicted Energy Use Intensity of 152