The Conscious Builder Show with Casey Grey

Rider Petch is a certified and Registered Energy Advisor with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). Rider is a Professional Biologist who shifted to his career as an EA to focus assertively on climate abatement. His goal is to help clients build low energy, net zero, carbon-smart, feel-good homes. Rider is the Owner of Fluent Energy Consulting. Fluent works with homeowners and builders to create high performance homes and climb the BC Energy Step Code as quickly and affordably as possible.

Rider believes we need to reduce both energy and carbon emissions in a home if the EnerGuide program will be successful in helping us meet our Paris GHG reduction targets.

More from Rider:

Website: https://www.fluentenergy.ca/

LinkedIN site here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fluent-energy-consulting/?viewAsMember=true

2:00 Background

6:30 Glavel

13:30 Energy Advisor

15:40 BEAM

18:30 Tracking emissions

27:00 Healthy, durable, safe,

30:00 Carbon Tax

34:00 Policy changes needed

Co-founder and CEO at Agorus, Garrett Moore brings a career of executive-level leadership and technology expertise to the construction industry. He earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Master's in Cyber Security from Tel Aviv University. Garrett is an Olmsted Scholar, prior collegiate athlete, and Navy Veteran.

This episode it's all about pre-fabrication. We discuss how traveling around the world help Garrett with his current business, why panelization is the sweet spot and how this is only a small step towards solving our housing crisis in North America.

For More from Garrett:

https://agorus.com/blog/

https://www.facebook.com/agorusbuild

https://www.instagram.com/agorusbuild/

https://twitter.com/Agorus_Build

2:00 How Garrett got into Pre-Fab

6:11 First steps Pre Fab

20:00 Core mission below cost

22:30 Process

31:25 Housing shortage

36:25 Scaling the company

Dave knew at 12 years old that he wanted to own investment real estate. That early passion helped him to create a foundation that would allow him to expand into other business ventures. From technology platforms for real estate boards to medical devices or start-ups Dave has invested in or led many exciting team initiatives. In 2013 a call out of the blue inspired Dave to tackle the custom building industry with upstart Alair Homes. Today Dave oversees multiple Alair Regions in Canada and the US and is co-host of the popular business podcast Builder Nuggets.

1:40 Introduction

3:00 Getting into real estate

10:00 Family

15:00 Business Background - Corporate Life

22:00 Becoming a builder

26:20 Project Management

29:00 Alair Homes Franchise

34:12 Business System - Cost Plus

41:55 Podcast

50:00 Mindset

Tommy Linstroth is the founder and CEO of Green Badger, a construction sustainability platform that saves clients time managing LEED and ESG reports. On this episode, Tommy shares the importance of third party verification and why companies are making the shift to building more sustainability with Embodied Carbon tracking.

1:44 Introduction

4:50 What is sustainability

8:00 What is green badger?

11:40 LEED certification

19:40 Embodied Carbon

Show Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenbadger
• https://twitter.com/GetGreenBadger
• https://www.facebook.com/getgreenbadger

Over the course of his career, Charlie has personally taught and trained over 10,000 professionals in-person about LEED, the green building movement, and how to pass LEED exams. His green building education company GBES has over 130,000 professionals around the world who use their study tools and CE materials to help maintain their credentials. Charlie also advocates for the green building movement to thousands of people monthly through his weekly podcast, Green Building Matters. On this episode we chat about different types of certifications like the WELL Certification, we get into regenerative design and how Local Law 97 in New York City is having a significant impact on the retrofits of buildings.

MORE FROM CHARLIE:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliecichetti/

https://www.gbes.com/podcast

1:45 Introduction

7:30 What is FITWEL and WELL certification

11:00 Indoor Air Quality

15:30 Zero Carbon

17:00 New York City mandates to reduce carbon

Emily is the founder and principal of Mottram Architecture, a boutique practice in Maine specializing in new homes and renovations that are beautiful, functional, comfortable, healthy, and durable.

We talk about the rabbit hole of building science and what certifications may make sense for you, challenges facing the industry today and some great information from Emily's new book: Pretty Good House.

1:55 introduction

4:15 What certifications make sense

13:45 The Book - Building a Pretty Good House

17:50 Why do you build this way?

20:00 Industry Challenges

21:55 Materials to work with - Have you heard of Glavel?

30:30 Indoor Air quality

37:45 Most exciting project

Show Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-mottram-22401410/
• https://www.instagram.com/mottramarch/
• www.mottramarch.com
• https://campsite.bio/mottramarchitecture

Marianne Touchie (too-she) is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Civil & Mineral Engineering, and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and Director of the Building Energy and Indoor Environment Lab. Her research focuses on the performance of multi-family buildings, particularly social housing.

In this episode we get into ways to deal with stack effect in high-rise buildings, how to deal with the psychology of occupants (of a building) and Marianne also shares some great advice for any young people looking to get into this type of work.

The Lab: https://beie.mie.utoronto.ca/

Marianne: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianne-touchie-5b36a314/

The Atmospheric Fund: https://taf.ca/

1:20 Intro

6:50 Air tightness in apartments

12:30 Research Process: working with owners

23:00 The Atmospheric Fund

26:30 Current studies in progress

Ben Polley is an award winning business manager and founder of Evolve Builders. With 16+ years estimating experience including 12 in green construction, he is also the cost-benefit guru. He participates in the design and estimating phase of new projects in order to locate savings opportunities and deliver the best quality for money on every project. A popular speaker at colleges, universities and industry events, and regular feature in green building media.

In this episode we talk about Ben's first demonstration home, how his business is structured and where he see's the future of construction going.

For more from Ben:

https://www.instagram.com/evolvebuildersgroup/

https://www.facebook.com/evolvebuildersgroup/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/evolve-builders-group

https://evolvebuilders.ca/

Mariana Pickering Co-Founder of Emu, is a recovering architect and an expert in communicating the construction industry's movement towards a better understanding of building science and sustainability.

With over a decade of work on high-performance projects and products across three continents, she is passionate about translating data, results, and needs into stories that help shift the cultures and mentalities of building professionals towards change.

In this episode we talk about the lack of building science knowledge on today's job sites and how we're changing that, EnerPHit and Passive House certification, how to sell Passive House to clients and some thermal mass misconceptions.

For More from Mariana:

• https://www.facebook.com/emubuildingscience/
• https://www.instagram.com/emubldgscience/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/emu-building-science/
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6rESO0JKcd9JQ0W2QPOFsg

1:30 Introduction

9:15 Building Science

13:45 EnerPHit

21:30 Passive House Certification

27:30 Cost per square foot

29:00 What is not Passive House

34:30 Thermal Mass Misconceptions

Laura A. Blau, AIA, CPHC (Certified Passive House Consultant 2009), CPHB (Certified Passive House Builder 2012), is a principal of BluPath Design, (a woman-owned award-winning architecture and Passive House Consulting firm) and expert witness.

Laura's leadership includes being a founding member of the Green Building Jefferson University. In addition, she presents at international and regional conferences on sustainable design and construction. Her awards include the Groundbreaker Award 2019, PHIUS Merit Award 2019 both for the Italian Market Passive House, 2016 Sprout Competition for a 16-unit net-zero energy apt building design, 2010 Green Builder award for Best Life Cycle Addition, the 2007 IIDA Honorable Mention for Sustainability and Energy Efficiency, 2006 Commonwealth Design Award for Sustainable Design. She formerly worked at MGA Partner on the award-winning Byrne Federal Courthouse lobby.

Laura was an award-winning fine artist before receiving her MArch from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. She co-authored Frazier Forman Peters: Westport's Legacy in Stone, 2012, and the Passive House Rowhouse Manual, 2021 for Green Building United.

In this episode we talk about why we need to act now when it comes to building better homes, how to prevent scope creep, and what we can do to change the industry.

For more from Laura:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-blau-15688a10/

https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/podcast/passive-house-podcast-ep-84-laura-blau-blupath-design

https://blupath.us/

https://architizer.com/firms/blupath-design/

https://www.allwecansave.earth/

2:00 Introduction into sustainability

6:30 Laura Background

9:50 Passive House

13:00 What's happening and how can we do better

22:30 Brussels example - originally poor energy policies

25:50 Cost Phobia

33:00 Goals and Values

40:30 All We Can Save