TREAT News

Software Reimbursement Now Available

NYSERDA Multi-Family Performance Program (MPP)will provide the following incentive for the purchase and support of NYSERDA approved software:

Reimbursement of 50% of the purchase price of one software license.
Reimbursement of 50% of the annual cost of the support and upgrade subscription fees.

To apply for the reimbursement Partners should navigate to the following location and complete NYSERDA Reimbursement Form.

Got to www.getenergysmart.org
In bottom left of the Page is the BUSINESS PARTNER LOG IN
Once logged in select the Marketing Materials & Co-op tab
Then select Partner Incentive Co-op Form

PSD Products OTTER and TREAT receive recognition from ACEEE

September, 2005 - In the spring of 2005, ACEEE initiated a national search for "exemplary" utility-funded low-income energy efficiency programs as part of a project to identify and profile programs that provide models of "best practices" for addressing the energy needs of low-income households.
Download the entire ACEEE paper (715Kb, Adobe PDF), or visit www.ACEEE.org

TREAT Software Receives R&D100 Award as One of the Most Innovative Products of the Year

July, 2005, Ithaca, NY - Taitem Engineering and Performance Systems Development recently won the prestigious R&D 100 Award. R&D 100 is the award that the Chicago Tribune has called "The Oscars of Invention." Others have referred to the R&D 100 Award as the "Nobel Prize of Applied Research."... Read More

TREAT 3.0: A New Version with Groundbreaking Features

April 15, 2005, Ithaca, NY - Taitem Engineering and Performance Systems Development announce a major advancement in residential energy modeling; TREAT 3.0. New features in TREAT are designed to dramatically reduce the time it takes contractors and energy analysts to model residential and multifamily buildings, without losing access to any of the advanced modeling features. TREAT has also been nominated for the prestigious R&D 100 award… Read More

Performance Systems Development Featured in Home Energy Magazine

May, 2005, Ithaca, NY - Greg Thomas, Jon Harrod and Caleb Crow of Performance Systems Development, discuss the consequences and benefits of running a green contracting company… Read More

TREAT Adopted as the Computerized Audit for Washington State's Low-Income Weatherization Assistance Program

June 25, 2004, Ithaca, NY - TREAT Energy Analysis Software has been approved for adoption as the computerized audit for Washington State's low-income Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). Washington State’s WAP network includes 26 agencies. Energy auditors at each agency vary from one user to up to seven or more users. TREAT will be used to audit a wide range of buildings types including: single family homes, trailers, and larger multifamily buildings… Read More

Jon Harrod Featured in Home Energy Magazine

April 8, 2004, Ithaca, NY - Jon Harrod, General Manager of Performance Systems Contracting and TREAT user, was recently featured in Home Energy Magazine… Read More

TREAT 2.6: New Release Increases User Productivity Through File Portability

January 16, 2004, Ithaca, NY - TREAT 2.6, the new version of Targeted Residential Energy Analysis Tools, is now available to energy professionals nationwide. TREAT 2.6 includes new functionality which allows users to easily share and copy TREAT projects using the new TPG (TREAT Project Group) file format. Users may open an individual project or save multiple projects in a project group. Individual TPG files can easily be shared across local area networks, via email, or posted on the web. This is particularly useful for organizations with multiple energy analysts working on the same audit. The TPG files can be stored on a server or easily passed between workstations… Read More

PSD's President Speaks at National Building Museum on Software and Feedback

Gregory Thomas, President of Performance Systems, spoke at the National Building Museum on "Industrializing the Process of Producing Energy Savings" on January 27th, 2004. The talk was sponsored by the US Department of Energy as part of the Building for the 21st Century lecture series. The talk addressed the process of creating cost effective feedback systems for energy savings including a discussion of design of the data flow and feedback systems being developed by Performance Systems as part of TREAT and TREAT tracker… Read More

OTTER is Now TREATtracker

New name, same great online tracking system designed to provide comprehensive program management services to energy efficiency programs using TREAT energy analysis software. Say goodbye to the OTTER. The Online Tracking Tools for Energy Retrofits is now called TREATtracker… Read More

Contractor Use of Building Modeling Featured in Report

PSD, in cooperation with BKi, has completed work on a California Energy Commission funded report on successful home performance contractors. Results of this report were presented at a US Department of Energy and EPA Energy Star sponsored pre conference session on home performance at the annual EEBA conference in October, 2003. Read the report (Adobe PDF)

TREAT Receives RESNET Approval

September 4, 2003, Ithaca, NY - TREAT 2.5 - Targeted Residential Energy Analysis Tools may now be used to generate a HERS (Home Energy Rating) score in accordance with the national Home Energy Rating System (HERS) standard. TREAT users have the ability to generate a HERS score… Read More

TREAT to be Featured at The National Weatherization Conference in Phoenix, Az.

August 10, 2003, Ithaca, NY - TREAT 2.5 - Targeted Residential Energy Analysis Tools will be featured at the upcoming session "What's Not NEAT in Weatherization". This three-part session will feature software alternatives to NEAT. TREAT will be featured during part one to be held at 10 am Wednesday August 20… Read More

Keeping Score - Home Energy Magazine Feature Article

March / April 2003 - A package of software tools is designed to make routine measurements of actual energy savings cost-effective for home performance contractors… Read the Entire Article (Adobe PDF)

New Software Gives Engineers Powerful Tool

March 25, 2003, Ithaca, NY - Performance Systems Development (PSD) and Taitem Engineering, two Ithaca-based building performance consulting firms, announce the national release of TREAT 2.5 - Targeted Residential Energy Analysis Tools. TREAT is a powerful new software tool designed to enable building performance, weatherization and engineering professionals to model building energy consumption and direct clients to the most cost-effective efficiency upgrades in single family and multifamily buildings… Read More.