Nikki Krueger

As Building Science & Business Development Manager Therma-Stor's residential and commercial moisture control products lines, including Ultra-Aire whole house ventilating dehumidifiers and Santa Fe freestanding dehumidifiers, I educate and train HVAC contractors, architects, engineers, crawl space contractors, and other professionals in the industry on the building science of ventilation and moisture control in buildings. Involved in the indoor air quality industry for over 15 years and am a RESNET certified home energy rater, sit on the RESNET SDC 200 committee, a board member of the Maryland Building Performance Association, and a member of the newly-formed ACCA Manual Low Load Homes (LLH) Advisory Committee. Active member of the Spray Polyurethane Foam Association, currently participating on the building envelope committee, as well as on the certification and safety committees.

Worked with building science industry icons to develop and produce a two-day hands-on crawl space encapsulation training program that focuses on the science of closing crawl spaces.

Robert Swinburne, Architect

Bluetime Collaborative

Vermont Simple House

Pretty Good House

SHOW NOTES:

Mariana Pickering

Instagram: @emumariana

Emu Building Science

Instagram: @emubldgscience

Starting with just a couple of projects in Cavriago, Italy in 2009, we have invested a lot of time and heart into our company. We are constantly challenging ourselves to learn about new building science, design + construction methods, and innovative products.

We believe in the widely used maxim, ‘think globally, act locally’ an idea which we hope to bring to our practice through the study of international and local environmental and architectural conditions.

As such, we have been able to grow our client base, our platform of knowledge, and our international experience. We opened an office in Denver, CO, USA, in 2016, and we are constantly growing and changing with this complicated and exciting industry.

Emu Systems

Vision: Research based Passive design/build as the industry standard for mainstream construction.

Mission: To close the gap between mainstream construction practices and advanced, proven building science, and to empower our industry to build for the future and for resiliency through builder training and simple, standard, Passive systems.

We are experts in virtual prototyping for the construction industry, building science nerds, and Passive House enthusiasts with company origins in Australia, experience in Europe, and new roots in Colorado.

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Kate Stephenson

Kate is an experienced leader in the fields of green building, professional education, sustainability, and business management. She’s worked with established and emerging businesses and non-profits to achieve triple bottom line metrics, develop business systems, and plan for a dynamic and resilient future. She has deep experience in post-secondary education, and led the Yestermorrow Design/Build School for over thirteen years. Kate helped to develop and is a facilitator for NESEA’s BuildingEnergy Bottom Lines program. Kate is a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, the Chair of the Montpelier Energy Advisory Committee, and serves on the Boards of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, NESEA and the Studio for High Performance Design and Construction. She is a Passive House U.S. Certified Builder and a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor. She holds a MS in Management from Antioch University New England and a BA in Anthropology and Environmental Science from Haverford College.

Instagram katemgstephenson https://www.instagram.com/katemgstephenson/

Helm Construction Solutions

https://www.buildhelm.com

Instagram: buildhelm https://www.instagram.com/buildhelm/

HELM Construction Solutions is a collaborative team with over seventy years of combined construction, management, leadership and education expertise. With offices in Montpelier and Brattleboro, Vermont, we work with contractors, designers, homeowners, business owners and institutions throughout New England and beyond to advance high performance building practice. HELM is a socially responsible business dedicated to empowering teams to work together in collaborative and creative ways for a common shared outcome.

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Doug Horgan
Vice President, Best Practices

LEED AP Homes

BPI Certified Building Analyst

NAHB Certified Graduate Remodeler,

Certified Green Professional

NARI Green Certified Professional

BOWA
7900 Westpark Drive, Suite A180, McLean, VA 22102
Mobile: (703) 928-6643

Office: (703) 734-9050 Fax: (703) 734-0188
Facebook | YouTube | Houzz | Twitter | Community

Doug Horgan has the best job ever: Vice President--Best Practices at BOWA, the Washington DC area’s premier custom and remodeling builder. In this training, quality, and troubleshooting role, Doug’s goal is reducing construction defects through sharing knowledge. Doug’s thirty years of tools-on carpentry, warranty troubleshooting, and instruction experience, along with thousands of photos, are the foundations for visually rich presentations on how to build well and avoid construction problems. Doug is a frequent contributor to the Journal of Light Construction, ProTradeCraft, Fine Homebuilding, Remodeling, and Professional Remodeler and has presented at Remodeling, JLC Live, NESEA Building Energy, the National Home Performance conference, and local events. Doug is a BPI Building Analyst, LEED AP - Homes, NARI GCP, and NAHB CGP and CGR.

https://www.instagram.com/bowa_designbuild/

https://bowa.com

Building Science For Building Enclosures. John Staube

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Science-for-Enclosures/dp/0975512749

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RACHEL PRESTON PRINZ

Founding Director, Archinia + Architecture for EveryBody

505-204-8177 | www.archinia.com | www.architectureforeverybody.org

she/her/hers

Founder and Director of Archinia and the non-profit Architecture for Everybody, Rachel Preston Prinz has spent 25 years studying and celebrating the craft of architecture and the Genius Loci - the Spirit of Place - in design, placemaking, and cultural and historic preservation. Rachel has served as a preservation commissioner in Taos, the host of the UNM-Taos Sustainability Institute, co-host of TEDxABQWomen, and you might have seen one of her numerous TEDx and Pecha Kucha talks.

Rachel’s work has been featured on HGTV, Bravo, NMPBS, and Canadian PBS; in Reader’s Digest, Trend, THE, Fine Art Connisseur, and Inc. magazines. She’s been featured in numerous articles, talks, podcasts, interviews and books on design, leadership, and finding courage in difficult circumstances.

Rachel is an expert people connector and "sparkplug" who brings a new and exciting energy to everything she does.

And she's going blind with macular degeneration.

Facebook: The Ministry of Architecture

Instagram: @ArchiniaDesign

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelprestonprinz

The Acoma Documentary

https://youtu.be/f9gkoxn1Zng

The Acoma Architecture Curriculum that goes with it

https://architectureforeverybody.org/acoma/
That's when The Conscious Builder was born.

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The Business Casual Yogi, Vish Chatterji

Casey Grey

Casey is the founder of the award-winning sustainable building company, The Conscious Builder, Co-founder of YOUNION Meditation & Wellness Studio, the host of The Conscious Builder Podcast and The Conscious Builder Show on YouTube and the former Co-host of The Conscious Living Podcast. He has written almost 400 blog posts on topics such as marketing, branding, entrepreneurship, personal development, sustainability and more.

​Casey brings almost two decades of experience to the construction industry and over a decade of experience to running, owning and growing multiple businesses while also staying committed to his wife and son. Casey is on a mission to help people build homes, businesses and lives in a more conscious manner and is co-authoring a book with Kevin Harrington, the original shark from the hit TV show Shark Tank.

When Casey started his first business and construction company, it was just like every other company. He just wanted to do good work and make a good living. It was not until he and his wife, Natasha, attended their first Tony Robbins event in 2012 that his mindset shifted and he started to ask himself "Why?"

Then, when he and Natasha found out they were having a child, everything clicked. If he was going to tell this child that he could do anything he wanted and become whoever he wanted, he would have to lead by example. He wanted his son to be proud of him and look up to him. He wanted to be the hero in his son's eyes.

That's when The Conscious Builder was born.