Since his college days, Jonah has worked on national and international water issues. He has spent over a decade leading the technical direction and development of WaterSense which is the EPA's water efficiency program and has established himself as an expert in the field of water efficiency, conservation, and sustainability with numerous published articles and speaking engagements. Our conversation tracks his path and what the WaterSense program is doing in the built environment today.

EPA WaterSense Program

Arava Institute for Environmental Studies

LinkedIn profile

Welcome to this bonus session of the BUILDCast. I am happy to bring to you A conversation about Zero Energy homes that took place at the 2021 EEBA (Energy & Environmental Building Alliance) High performance Home Summit. I had this conversation as a session at the conference with individuals that have been working to build, promote, and educate us about building science based construction that results in zero energy homes.

Gord Cooke - President at Building Knowledge Canada & Partner at Construction Instruction

Bill Rectanus - Vice President of Homebuilding Operations at Thrive Home Builders

Justin Wilson – Principal Partner Construction Instruction

Seth Hart - Associate Principal at DTJ Design

Energy & Environmental Building Alliance 

2021 EEBA High performance Home Summit

EEBA Ultimate ZEN HOME

Greg D. Fisher, Architect is a design and service-centered practice focusing on simple, progressive, authentic and responsible designs since the firm’s inception in 1993. In 2020 Greg started down the road of designing and building a Passive house for him and his wife in Fort Collins Colorado. Listen to his journey to architecture and then to Passive house.

Advantage Architectural Woodwork This is the window company located in Kolby, KS and is owned by Bob Holloway. They are represented here locally by AE Building Systems 

Colorado State University Institute for the Built Environment 

Revive community

EMU Systems - Passive House consultation and training 

Fisher Passive house presentation links

AE Building Systems

Spring 2021 presentation given to NAPHN Live

December 2020 presentation to BS+Beer Show

November 2019 episode of the Build Show

Performance Construction Manger Mitsubishi Electric Tane US HVAC, Shawn has focused his worked in Energy and resource efficiency, sustainable buildings, and community abundance. He enjoys contributing his experience and intuitive problem-solving skills to what he calls a history-changing industry. He believes there are countless opportunities as we face the nexus of energy, water, food, transportation, technology, and economic sustainability. The time is now to meet our energy and carbon challenges head-on.

Shawn's LinkedIn 

PCD Engineering and Lightly Treading Join Forces

An assortment of short conversations I had with the sponsor exhibitors at the 2021  EBBA High Performance Summit

EEBA

Aprilaire

Dettson

Energy Panel Structures SIPS

Graphen Stone

Panasonic

Resideo

RetroTec

Sonnen USA

Dupont

An assortment of short conversations I had with the sponsor exhibitors at the 2021  EBBA High Performance Summit - Part II

BOAN-Nutone

Etopia USA

Extreme Panel Technologies 

Mitsubishi Electric Tane US HVAC

R-Control Panel

Santa-Fe Dehumidifiers 

Stego Industries 

SunNova

Huber ZIP System

I had a great conversation with Corbett who is juggling all things that his company Building Performance Workshop is doing. Performance Testing and home diagnostics, a home diagnostics book, training, podcast, TV show and YouTube Channel. All in an effort to help homeowners live their best life in the homes they have chosen.

Corbett introduces himself on his website this way. “Hi. I am Corbett Lunsford, and sometimes I’m an idiot. I wasn’t always a home performance expert – I used to play piano for ballerinas. For a living. So, in 2008, I started this career with Grace (my wife) and we learned a few things very quickly: construction is unbelievably messy, most pros are over-rushed and under-paid, and homeowners end up suffering in small ways, for their entire lives in the house. None of this has to be so we can opt out of the whole thing with performance testing.” Performance testing, gathering data in the home is the mission that Corbett has chosen as the backbone for his different platforms to educate industry and the public on what we should expect of our housing.

Building Performance Workshop

Home Diagnostics TV Series

You Tube Channel 

Building Performance Podcast

Home Performance diagnostics book

Tiny House/Tiny Lab

The story about how Gary Klein got into hot water is a long one which we delve into in this episode of the BUILDCast. It takes us from the east cost of the United State to Lesotho in Africa, back to the United States and on to California. Throughout his journey Gary took his own path and followed what interested him the most while looking for big problems to solve. Gary is passionate about helping people and looking at social issue through a lens of environmental ethics which has led him first to renewables, then energy efficiency, and now to hot water. Why Hot water? Well take a listen and find out.

Gary Klein and Associates

Lesotho, a high-altitude, landlocked kingdom encircled by South Africa, is crisscrossed by a network of rivers and mountain ranges including the 3,482m-high peak of Thabana Ntlenyana.

California Energy Commission – Water Heating

C.R. Herro, Vice president of Innovation at Meritage Homes, leads Meritage’s Business Innovation Program which combines design, efficiency, sustainability, and new technologies to establish a new standard in home building that provide better comfort, healthier air, and cost less to own and operate.

C.R. earned a Bachelor of Science at Arizona State University in Physical and Life Science, master’s in environmental science from Governors State, and Doctorate in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, and a master’s in philosophy from Arizona State University. CR has spent 20 years within Fortunate 500 companies driving innovation and the supporting change management.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cr-herro-39725514/

https://www.meritagehomes.com/

MC2 Mathis Consulting Company

National Fenestration Rating Council 

Architectural Testing Inc.  

NAHB Research Center now Home Innovation Research labs 

ASHREA 

ASTM