Meet Lara Greden, PHD

Meet Lara Greden, PHD
by Shelley Hawes

Lara Greden was inspired by energy efficiency at a young age. Growing up on a farm in Pine City, MN, her family was at the forefront experimenting with home energy systems; Their home integrated high thermal mass passive solar design elements.

Greden’s interest moved toward the engineering end of construction, eventually leading her to graduate school in Building Technology at MIT where she concentrated on computer modeling for designing energy efficient buildings. The results led her to question how to communicate their results.

About a year ago, Lara and husband/business partner Bruno Miller became inspired while looking for a car and checking CARFAX reports. They thought to apply the idea to homes and soon partnered with George Matthews, a software engineer, to develop the Luzia Energy Report.

Not just a checklist, the Luzia Energy Report includes Energy Star’s benchmarking system; the Home Energy Yardstick. It is a marketing and educational tool that measures how improvements are actually performing. When making energy improvements at home, it helps to ask the question “Does it work?”

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