Brouwer leads energy efficiency team for low income area

Lower income housing is often energy inefficient.  Poor neighborhoods lack trees, plants, and greenbelts, a factor that can affect cooling. AirUCI Faculty Jack Brouwer is leading a team that will retrofit the Oak View neighborhood in Huntington Beach, and the UCI team wants to include better insulation and weather proofing, new windows, working appliances, even solar panels. The government-funded competition is part of the push to meet state law calling for California’s greenhouse gas emissions to return to 1990 levels by 2020.  Read the article