Reed Business Information

Custom Publications

Since 2006, Confluence Communications has contributed to a variety of custom publications produced by Reed Business Information’s Building and Construction Division. Though we’ve only been consulting with them directly for a few years, we’ve been delighted to work with them for more than a decade.

These publications have included:

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S BUILDING AMERICA
AND BUILDERS CHALLENGE

Full Service Marketing Communications Support

Buildings consume 40% of our nation’s energy and account for 40% of carbon emissions. Residential buildings account for over half the energy and carbon impact of all buildings. Our government has an obligation to help builders, remodelers, industry organizations and ultimately, consumers address the energy performance of homes.

To this end, we’re delighted to be part of the team responsible for managing and implementing the DOE’s Building America and Builders Challenge Program. During the past two years, we’ve provided outreach strategy and planning support, marketing material development, public relations, web site management and editorial services to a team of federal employees, contractors, national laboratories, and industry partners.

Our current work is through the team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and we couldn’t be happier to feel that we’re part of a wave of important change in this country.

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Building Media

Weatherization Training

Weatherizing America’s more than 115 million existing homes is a critical part of reducing our nation’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and creating healthier living environments for people. Recognizing this, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) allocated funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to significantly improve the performance of qualified low-income homes. Confluence Communications was proud to contribute to this process.

The State of Tennessee’s Higher Education Authority was provided funds through the 2009 ARRA funds to establish an aggressive training program specifically to support the Tennessee Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), which helps low-income households reduce energy costs by providing assistance to weatherize their homes.

Confluence Communications was charged with creating a full training curricula that covered all aspects of the weatherization process, from the basics of building science to advanced building diagnostics. With only a 100-day deadline to meet, the project included over 35 individual training videos, study guides, and assessments.

More information on this cool project, check out this example of the training material we prepared.

“When dealing with a tight budget and even tighter turnaround, I was grateful to have Confluence Communications on our team. In less than 100 days they produced 30 high-quality instructional videos and associated written material for a weatherization training program and were on-time and under budget. They set the bar for the rest of the team.”