SRA Supports Successful Design and Development of ENERGY STAR® Home Advisor Program
Program helps home owners identify energy efficient household improvements
FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SRA International, Inc., a leading provider of IT solutions and professional services to government organizations, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ENERGY STAR® program, announced the successful release of the ENERGY STAR Home Advisor tool designed to help Americans save money and conserve energy by improving the energy efficiency of their homes.
The Home Advisor tool guides homeowners through a "do-it-yourself" energy assessment to create an ENERGY STAR home profile which then generates customized, prioritized recommendations for improvements. From these recommendations, users can create their own to-do lists of projects such as adding insulation to the attic or replacing an HVAC air filter.
The SRA team employed Agile practices to accurately define, develop, and test the logic for the complex requirements necessary to generate more than 150 distinct recommendations and a nearly infinite number of possible recommendation combinations for homeowners. The technologies and database design methods used to build this tool are based on big data best practices to help streamline future searching and reporting needs. This is an important initiative for the ENERGY STAR Residential Branch and lays the groundwork to extend the reach of the ENERGY STAR program, allowing for more engagement with homeowners in the existing homes market. More than 1,400 homeowners have already opened accounts since the Home Advisor tool was first launched.
John Ludecke, Vice President of SRA's Health and Civil business commented, "Since 2001 it has been our privilege to support the valuable mission of the EPA's ENERGY STAR program. The successful launch of the ENERGY STAR Home Advisor program underscores SRA's commitment to bringing the best people and best ideas together to help our customers meet their mission needs - in this case to help homeowners save money and energy by adopting the latest methods in home energy efficiency."
The EPA launched the ENERGY STAR Home Advisor tool in December 2014.
About SRA International, Inc.
At SRA we combine our creativity, mission experience, technology acumen and domain expertise to deliver innovative IT solutions and professional services to address the toughest mission and operational challenges faced by U.S. government agencies. We are inspired by our customers' missions and strive to provide the best people, working together to generate the best ideas, to deliver the best possible performance - all driven by our enduring values of Honesty and Service®. SRA was founded in 1978. We are headquartered in Fairfax, VA and employ approximately 5,300 professionals operating at home and overseas. Learn more about SRA at www.sra.com.
Any statements in this press release that are not historical data or information constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to factors and risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results SRA anticipates. Some of these factors are set forth in Item 1A of SRA's Form 10-K for its latest fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, and subsequent filings made by SRA with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While SRA may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so except as required by law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing SRA's views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140810/134934
SOURCE SRA International, Inc.
Share this article