The Conscious Builder Show with Casey Grey

Raphael, originally from Switzerland, is a Swiss and Canadian trained certified Passive House Designer with over 19 years of construction experience building with mass timber. He started his own Design Build firm called HSS Design Build in 2016. HSS Design Build is located in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. They provide quality craftsmanship and sustainable building techniques for generations to enjoy. At HSS, they create structures that resemble and respond to their natural surroundings and create comfortable living spaces which meet future efficiency standards and are the highest quality. Raphael is passionate about energy efficient and innovative design. His business mission: to accelerate the transition to sustainable and energy efficient design and construction practices. For more from Raphael and HSS Design Build: website: https://www.hssdesignbuild.com/ instagram - hssdesignbuild youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWrI6MV1-QRB_RZkpNaZ_A LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hss-design-build/ For more from The Conscious Builder: www.theconsciousbuilder.com Conscious Builder Academy: www.consciousbuilderacademy.com Priming for Tough Conversations Handbook https://www.consciousbuilderacademy.com/course/priming-tough-conversations Conflict Resolution Toolkit: https://www.consciousbuilderacademy.com/course/conflict-resolution-toolkit Conflict Resolution Toolkit and Priming For Tough Conversations Bundle: https://www.consciousbuilderacademy.com/bundle/priming-handbook-and-conflict-resolution-toolkit-bundle

Josh Friesen is part owner of Duek Builders

https://www.dueckbuilders.com/

Dueck Builders had its beginnings as Dueck Homes when Cal Dueck began building custom homes in 2006 in his neighbourhood of Fort Garry. Cal started with a hands-on approach, doing all the framing, concrete, and finishing in the green homes he built.

Energy efficient homes and sustainable building practices continue to be at the forefront of what Dueck Builders brings to the table. They created the first privately-built LEED certified house in Manitoba, and Cal contributed to various Green building boards. Dueck Builders continues to invest in pushing the envelope for responsible building. Whether it is ICF houses or double-wall builds, they aim to achieve Passive House air exchange requirements to ensure healthy indoor air quality.

In 2016, Dueck Homes changed its name to Dueck Builders, remaining a family owned and operated business with nephew Josh Friesen joining the company. Dueck Builders is committed to making a fair wage and ensuring fair payment to sub-trades. They believe win-win situations are the only way to conduct business.

In this episode, we touch on a wide range of topics including:

-What sustainability means to Josh

-The base level techniques and products that Dueck likes to use

-Why being interested in people is so important

-How honesty always wins

-How active listening may just be the solution to all your problems

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Conscious Builder Academy: www.consciousbuilderacademy.com Conflict Resolution Toolkit: https://www.consciousbuilderacademy.com/course/conflict-resolution-toolkit Priming for Tough Conversations Handbook https://www.consciousbuilderacademy.com/course/priming-tough-conversations

Casey joins the high energy Business Bros Podcast to discuss his journey and motivations toward building Consciously.

Energy Recovery Ventilator (Also known as Enthalpy Recovery Ventilator) VS. Heat Recovery Ventilator. Casey reviews how they work, covers their differences and suggests which one you might need - or may already have!

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Paul Harvey is an Ex Digital marketer and the full-time host of the Life Passion and Business Podcast. Paul is passionate about life, fascinated with technology and curious about people. He has always been intrigued by how things work, both on a mundane level like fixing the washing machine, and on the global level, ecological resources and fixing the planet. That curiosity has brought a lot of variety into life and work. For the majority of his career, it has meant product marketing or people development. He is a skilled coach, speaker and facilitator, always committed to bringing out the best in the people around him.

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

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Conversation Highlights:

0:40 Life passion and business

3:15 The five questions

7:00 Making the cashiers day better

8:10 Don't set massive goals

9:30 Destructive to do lists

10:00 Set intentions - time blocking

11:20 Quote - signpost along a journey onto something else

12:15 Comparing yourself to others

13:15 Avoiding the distractions, doing the work

17:50 200 reasons why & the story

19:45 Storytelling

20:22 The success trap

23:20 What I didn't like about marketing

26:00 Serve your body

28:20 What is success?

Shawna is Blue House Energy's resident building science expert, designer of green homes, and planner for deep energy retrofits. A sought after speaker, author, and blogger, she has published numerous books, research reports, and technical studies in the industry. She also creates course content and provides instructional design and business development.

• Blue House Energy (Facebook)
• @BlueHseNRG (Twitter)
• Blue House Energy (LinkedIn)
• Shawna Henderson (LinkedIn)

2:10 Meet Shawna Henderson

5:00 energy advisor, home inspector, nova scotia,

7:18 R2000 bad builders

11:07 Benchmarking

13:36 Retrofits

14:58 what's the payback

16:00 what is a retrofit - energuide for houses

18:52 deep retrofit

20:15 increasing insulation once in a lifetime 22:20 CCMC canadian construction materials center

25:00 contractors should be licensed

31:00 what is resiliency?

40:00 training course

Ben Adam-Smith worked in TV and radio for 15 years. With a growing concern about the environment, he wanted to play his part in looking for solutions. As our homes are probably the biggest part of our carbon footprint he started there. He set up a podcast called House Planning Help and documented what he learnt as he went about his own Passivhaus project. A decade on and his website is going from strength to strength. He also launched a membership community called The Hub to help others who want to build high performance, low carbon homes. Ben is passionate about the environment and believes with wise decisions about how we live our lives we can all make a difference.

You can find more from Ben here:

• https://twitter.com/BenAdamSmith
• https://twitter.com/houseplanhelp
• https://www.facebook.com/HousePlanningHelp

00:50 introduction

3:45 Sites near london

6:16 passive does not focus on embodied carbon, concrete and steel number one culprits

8:05 pollution and extinction, extreme weather

10:33 other ways to reduce footprint

12:05 flying

13:43 real estate, what do we do

16:00 more government incentives

17:05 victorian building being brought up to passive house system

18:50 incentive trends

19:50 what did you learn from building the passive house

24:30 Straw bale

27:50 gas boiler - radiators

28:55 ventilation system

34:00 where does the plug go

35:00 we can't make last minute decisions

Tom Reber (thecontractorfight.com) is an entrepreneur, business coach, podcaster, founder of The Contractor Fight & Shin-Fu Sales Mastermind, and HGTV host. His content has helped hundreds of thousands of home improvement contractors improve their lives and businesses.

Tom coaches and advises business owners and CEO's on how to lead better, build stronger teams and scale their businesses profitably.

Tom is a United States Marine Corps veteran, lover of fine tequila and kettlebell fanatic. He is originally from Wheaton, IL and now resides in Colorado.

Tom has written a new book: Winning the Contractor Fight

"The Contractor Fight" is what Tom Reber calls the battle between your ears. We all have stories and experiences that have formed us into who we are. We are what we think, and the battleground is our mind.

The Fight is not with the people you think are "cheap customers." It's not with the unlicensed competitors or the "illegals," as many contractors think.

The Fight is with yourself.

Sadly, most of the struggles contractors have are self imposed. It's friendly fire. The negative ways we think about ourselves and our worth… friendly fire. The growing debt, working too much, small bank account… friendly fire.

Winning the Fight is a choice.

find Tom on instagram at @realtomreber, and YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/TomReber

0:00 introduction

1:35 how did you get into the business

4:10 Contractors fight - why the name

5:45 why the mindset is so hard, negative self talk

8:25 how to be more disciplined, small daily goals

11:40 transition into HGTV

18:40 importance of processes

24:30 prioritizing yourself time

31:25 "if there's anything you need we'll share with you how you can live without it"

36:25 - book contractors fightclub

Art of Construction (Devon Tilly)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/devon-tilly-5a407a20/ provides business, sales, and marketing strategies to the building industry through the mediums of podcasting, video, webinars, live events, and built projects. We are a global network of contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, designers, skilled tradespeople, scientists, technology experts, owners, entrepreneurs, and visionaries dedicated to learning, growing, and pioneering the best way forward for the construction industry and our planet

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3:30 supply shortage

6:45 window expectations today

10:00 new technologies - fireside chats, building the IT house, humanizing the process

14:00 windows - what makes a good window

22:00 best kind of framing

26:00 test study

29:00 modular pre-fab

34:14 still cheaper to go custom than pre-panel

35:30 communication - blue collar warriors

39:45 art of construction podcast

Janice Ashworth - Project Manager at City of Ottawa Climate Change Unit

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Janice has been a tireless advocate of community-owned power for more than decade. She played an important role in developing 17 solar power projects in Eastern Ontario with a total generating capacity of 1.7 MW. She has been with the Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-op since 2011 and has 10 years of experience in renewable energy. At OREC, she is responsible for business development, project management, and financing. Janice Chairs the Ontario Federation of Community Power Co-operatives, is a member of the Sustainability Committee of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, and sits on the Net Metering Working Group of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association. She coordinated the Nova Scotia Sustainable Electricity Alliance and worked in wind energy with the community-owned Colchester-Cumberland Windfield. Her non-profit experience includes community organizing for Ecology Ottawa and promoting solar energy with the Ecology Action Centre. In her time as General Manager of OREC, Janice has been named as a 40 Under 40 business leader by the Ottawa Business Journal, and was awarded the 2017 Solar Woman of Distinction by Women in Renewable Energy.

1:25 start

2:12 where did the interest come from

7:00 how are we doing energy use, the effect of covid

12:50 Community-owned power what is it?

14:10 Energy democracy

17:45 OREC - solar and wind projects in Ottawa,

18:57 Co-power

19:40 Green Energy Act

22:10 ONEC - community farm

24:45 Farm co-op - organic vegetables

29:00 Growing our own garden

31:00 Climate refugees

32:30 Project manager - Ottawa climate unit - what they do

Climate change resiliency

Climate change mitigation

Specific role - financial modeling, private building retrofits

35:11 Private building retrofits - better homes loan program - 0% financing to homeowners, Oct 25th loan program starts.

39:43 how does it work, energuide audit

44:00 energy evolution - strategy to achieve master plan net zero 2040