Building Trades home receives grant for energy efficiency

Humboldt High School building trades students working on this year’s energy efficiency education home remodeling project include, left to right: Jack Opheim, Carrson Bothne, Jase Goodell, Will Orness, Kyle Caquelin, Owen Hubbell, Trever Beach, Jayden Drewis, and Dan Oswald, instructor. Students not available for photo: Hunter Dery, Kaleb McCullough, Dusty Pate, Fin Mason, Evan Hundertmark, and Levi Bonnstetter. Independent photo by Jim Sayers.
By JIM SAYERS
Since 1998, Humboldt High School has offered a building trades program through which high school students get hands-on education on residential home construction.
This school year, a 1925-vintage single-family home located near John Brown Park in south Humboldt is undergoing a complete renovation, inside and out, by the building trades class of 14 high school seniors,
This year’s home will highlight energy efficiency. Thanks to a grant from the Iowa Association for Energy Efficiency, managed by The Energy Group, an energy consulting firm from Des Moines, this year's project has been designated as an “energy efficiency education home,” focusing on energy efficiency measures specified by the Iowa Energy Conservation Building Code. Read all about it and see photos of the students and their work in this week's Humboldt Independent. Subscribe and read what you are missing by clicking on the link at the top of this page.