econest Canada Information

econest is an innovative web-based solution designed to enable Service Organizations (SOs) and their respective Energy Advisors (EAs) to deliver the ENERGUIDE residential home energy evaluation service. From gathering home’s building science data within the data collection form (DCF), to collecting HO info on applicable forms, and generating the final H2K file with customizable comments, econest facilitates these features and more via a tablet based solution, 100% paperless. With focus on Quality Assurance as one of its core features, econest enables SOs and EAs to save significant amounts of time by minimizing data re-entry on paper forms, real-time QA validation, PDF generation, and automatic H2K export with customized reporting. Further, higher data accuracy is delivered due to data re-entry minimization on forms and real-time QA validations resulting in faster processing time and better data integrity. By using econest, EAs and SOs are enabled to put more focus on the homeowner by analyzing and fine tuning content vs. rudimentary and extremely time consuming and mundane data entry and associated QA efforts as a result. After 2 years of business requirements gathering, development and testing, econest was launched in 2018. As anticipated, econest was embraced by its market and currently services five SOs with over 10,000 audits already completed. Furthermore econest has created a platform among industry players to bring forth and brainstorm ideas, challenges, and best practices. A unified community to drive change and to further elevate the overall efforts in the path to professionalization of the EA profession.