Eva King is the founder and principal scientist at Aura EnviroServices. Keswick, VA. She has a Ph.D. in immunoepidemiology from the University of Oxford, UK. Her work focuses on diagnosing indoor environmental problems in homes and workplaces. She has appeared on ABC Nightline.
Sophie Mercier is a building envelope specialist and co-founder of Evoke Buildings, a Vancouver-based Building Science and Energy consulting firm. She is going to ponder: With our eyes on the prize of ultimate sustainability, carbon emission reduction, are we too often focusing on the tree rather than the forest? We always think we can do it better than our predecessors, but sometimes we forget what they did, why, and how they did it.
Andy Shapiro has a barefoot engineering degree from Brown University and is President for Life of Energy Balance, Inc. Jacob Racusin is an embodied carbon researcher with Builders for Climate Action and New Frameworks and is a killer sax player. They will dive into operational and embodied CO2e and their effects on the atmosphere over time for a pair of dormitory/apartment buildings in Vermont that were designed and constructed to be “net zero ready”. Design and material strategies, successes, failures, and lessons learned will be presented.
Ed Fronaphel is with SBSA in Golden, CO and is a structural engineer who burns things to see how they work. This is a big deal. He has several decades of experience in forensic engineering analysis. Fire resistance of building assemblies is…bad pun…now on the front burner.
Chris Schumacher is a senior building science consultant at RDH and a Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo. Chris is going to talk about his experience dealing with moisture management in over 50 mass timber buildings…specifically how assemblies get wet during construction and how they can they be dried. Chris apparently thinks he can still ski.
Claudia Miller. MD, MS started as an industrial hygienist is now Professor Emerita in Allergy/Immunology and Environmental Health at the University of Texas. Carl Grimesis Managing Director of Hayward Healthy Home. Together they authored the “Environmental House Calls” case study paper that combined indoor air measurements with environmental exposure and sensitivity limits and occupant experiences of building conditions before and after an exposure event, before and after environmental conditions, and over time.
Henri is a building enclosure specialist and an architect with over 40 years of experience. He has done countless remediation, building failure and historic renovation projects including the Guggenheim Museum….and…wait for it…a net-zero energy research structure in Antarctica. When he talks about penguins it is not about the hockey team.
Marc Rosenbaum, P.E., received a BS and MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Founder and Principal of Energysmiths and built his first superinsulated house in 1978. Marc will discuss daylighting….” the illumination of indoor spaces by natural light…”. OK, can’t resist this…Marc will shine a light on the subject…
Tim Mattox is a mechanical engineer from Oklahoma State University and has spent 30 years developing fire test standards. Tim worked to establish UL Systems Categories combining air and water performance with fire spread resistance for exterior walls. Tim points out the priorities are safe evacuation and inhibiting smoke freely traveling throughout a building. Effective firestopping also mitigates sound transmission. Tim is a lab rat who connects with the real world.
James Petersen is a mechanical engineer with over 40 years of experience. James embraces a whole building approach that dramatically reduces heating and cooling loads and then matches them with HVAC systems that are small, simple, durable and easy to service. James loves working in the woods when he is not a legendary MEP/FP. He is an accomplished tree feller and gets a kick out of operating his excavator.