Ryan Abendroth is a student at the University of Illinois and is graduating with his Bachelors of Science in Architectural Studies in December 2009. Ryan has been involved with the University of Illinois Solar Decathlon Team which has designed and built a certified Passive House. He has a background in residential construction from installing slate and tile roofs in the summers. Ryan is currently working for PHIUS where he reviews PHPP files for certification and works on construction documents while finishing up school.
Chris Benedict, R.A. provides architectural services for commercial and residential buildings. Her unique understanding of building science allows her to rethink and invent elegant holistic solutions to building systems. Her firm specializes in buildings that are healthy, durable and energy efficient, built for the same price as typical construction. Chris teaches internationally and her work has been featured in books, blogs, magazines, and TV. Chris is currently designing a new 80 room hotel and a new 31 unit apartment building in New York City that feature new and innovative solutions to energy efficiency.
Jeff Buscher is an architectural engineer and cofounder of the Nauhaus Group, a design/build firm in Asheville, NC dedicated to a low carbon building using local, nontoxic, low embodied energy materials, and native and edible landscapes. The Nauhaus Group is currently building a Passivhaus in Asheville.
thenauhaus.com/blog/
Dave Brach, AIA, Cert. PH Consultant, has a degree in Anthropology from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters in Architecture from the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the owner of Brach Design Architecture in Salt Lake City, which specializes in energy efficient single & multifamily housing. He also works as a carpenter and cabinetmaker, and he designed and is helping construct what will soon be the first certified PH in the Mountain West.
www.ourpassivehouse.org
www.brachdesign.com
Robert Clarke is the founder and president of Serious Materials-Boulder Division (formerly Alpen, Inc), manufacturing the World’s Highest Performance windows and architectural glass. Projects include the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and countless challenging window projects from Antarctica to desert climates. Mr. Clarke holds an engineering degree from Princeton University and MBA from Stanford. He was a founder of Southwall Technologies, and serves on the board of directors of AeroTurbine dedicated to utility scale wind-electric generation.
www.seriousmaterials.com www.SeriousWindows.com
Adam Cohen is a principal partner in Structures Design/Build, LLC. He holds a degree in architecture from the University of Maryland and holds designation as LEED AP, Certified Green Professional and has completed the Passive House consultant program. In his 25 year design/build career he has created buildings using alternative technologies such as passive and active solar, earth sheltering, timber frame, SIPS, ICF, Healthy home construction (non VOC, non chemical, all natural homes) and 100% recycled content construction. His experience also encompasses all aspects of standard commercial and residential construction. Adam’s other areas of interest include: Sculpture, Stone masonry and Archeology. Mr. Cohen is a current board member of the Roanoke City Clean and Green Committee and current board member of the Roanoke Clean Valley Council.
www.structuresdb.com/
zeroenergyconstruction.blogspot.com/
Carly Coulson, AIA, LEED® AP, is an architect focused on the integration of the diverse disciplines that combine to make contemporary building into humane and sustainable environments. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree and is a Crown Scholar from the Illinois Institute of Technology where she began her work on advanced structural and material solutions. She worked for Foster & Partners in London on highly-innovative commercial buildings, including 30 St Mary Axe which won a RIBA Sterling Prize. She has recently completed several commercial and residential projects with Salmela Architect that have been honored with international and national awards for design excellence, including BusinessWeek / Architectural Record “Good Design is Good Business”, Architecture Magazine “Home of the Year”, AIA Housing National Honor Award, and the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award. She is currently designing a multi-family project and an educational facility that have targets of LEED® Platinum and Passive House certification.
www.salmelaarchitect.com, www.carlycoulson.com
Tim Delhey Eian was born and grew up in Germany. He is a graduate of the architecture school at the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) from which he received an engineer’s title. Tim Eian is a certified Passive House consultant. In 2008, he founded TE Studio—a building design firm dedicated to beautiful, resource-efficient buildings. His company specializes in Passive House new construction and deep energy reduction retrofit projects.
www.testudioltd.com
Paul Eldrenkamp is owner and founder of Byggmeister, Inc., a 26-year old residential remodeling company that specializes in high-performance retrofits in metropolitan Boston. He was a participant in the first US Passive House consultant training class, held in Urbana in the spring and summer of 2008. He writes regularly for the Journal of Light Construction and speaks often at regional and national building conferences such as Affordable Comfort, Building Energy, Build Boston, and JLC-Live. He has served on the boards of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, the Green Decade Coalition, and the Newton Historical Society, and on the Massachusetts Zero Net Energy Buildings Task Force. He did a major renovation on his house several years before he should have, and as a result it uses roughly twice the total energy it would if it met Passive House standards. Consequently, Paul is hopeful that other people can learn from his mistakes.
www.byggmeister.com
Tad Everhart is a lawyer with the Community Development Law Center (CDLC), a program of Legal Aid Services of Oregon. The CDLC serves nonprofit community development organizations serving low-income Oregonians. Tad focuses his practice on shared-equity affordable homeownership programs, particularly for community land trusts, manufactured home park cooperatives, and mutual self-help programs. Tad is devoted to homeownership opportunities that are sustainable economically, socially, and environmentally. He and his brother owned Paragon Property, a real estate development and construction company which designed and built 40 homes including Tad’s family’s current home. Unfortunately, Tad built designed and built his family’s house 10 years before he learned about Passive House in the first US Passive House Consultant training program. Tad is currently retrofitting his family’s home to be a Certified Passive House.
Stanley D. Gatland II is the Manager of Building Science Technology for CertainTeed Corporation. He is responsible for generating and providing technical information to architects, engineers, builders, trade contractors, building envelope consultants, building scientists and building code officials on the system performance of new and existing building envelope materials, as well as building science educational training. Mr. Gatland has expertise in the areas of building science and architectural acoustics with an extensive national and international network of professional contacts in the fields of building science, energy efficiency, heat and moisture transfer, environmental acoustics and fire performance.
Prior to joining CertainTeed he was a supervisor of materials testing for Celotex Corporation’s Technical Center in St. Petersburg, FL and a thermal engineering research consultant for the Center for Applied Engineering in St. Petersburg, FL. Mr. Gatland is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with both a Master of Science degree and Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. He is a member of ASHRAE, ASTM, ASME and BETEC.
Fred Gordon is the principal of Second Street Associates LLC. Second Street owns, developed, and manages a 65 mixed use building in S. Boston, which includes artist space and light manufacturing, and will add to that a new 65 unit residential building to fill out the city block. The new building is designed to meet Passivhaus standards, and also involves innovative approaches to CHP, local food production, natural lighting, water management, and transportation. The engineer on the development team has served on the Mass Zero Energy Task Force, and had Passivhaus training. Fred Gordon works with Newton Green Decade on issues of weatherization of existing buildings, and is on the Executive Board of the Mass. Climate Action Network. www.Distilleryboston.com
Eric Helton is a building science adventurer. As a mechanical engineer, tinkerer, data acquisition expert, and father, he spends his time measuring, analyzing, and thinking about the world around him. Eric has worked in the building science and renewable energy fields since the late 1990’s.
Martin Holladay has worked as a plumbing wholesale counterperson, roofer, remodeler, and builder. He built his first passive solar house in northern Vermont in 1974, and has lived off the grid since 1975. After the 1988 Armenian earthquake, Holladay spent 18 months in the mountains of northern Armenia, where he helped build medical clinics and housing. In the 1990s, he worked for four years as a project manager for a nonprofit developer of low-income housing. In 1999, Holladay accepted a position as associate editor at the Journal of Light Construction, and became editor of Energy Design Update in 2002. Holladay joined the GreenBuildingAdvisor.com Web site as senior editor in November 2008. His weekly blog focuses on low-energy residential construction.
Graham Irwin (CPBD, CGBP, LEED AP, Certified Passive House Consultant) is the founder and principal of Essential Habitat, a Northern-California consulting and design firm, and a partner in Zero Impact Architecture (ZIA.) Graham is actively involved in Passive House design, advocacy and promotion. He lectures regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay area, assists with PHIUS Passive House Consultant training, and consults with government agencies on energy policy in addition to his private clients. Graham was member of the first US Passive House Consultant's Training class and hasn't stopped talking about PH since...
www.remodelguidance.com/
Milos Jovanovic is the co-founder of Root Design Build Inc, a firm specializing in sustainable design and construction. He has been LEED accredited since 2004 and is in the process of becoming a Passive House Consultant. He has design experience in high performance, green buildings of all scales and has worked on several groundbreaking projects. Milos was a LEED coordinator for the Portland Armory project which became the first building in the world to achieve the LEED Platinum status as a renovation project and has built the first LEED Platinum home in the Portland (OR) area. Currently he is the process of building a home in Hood River, Oregon that has a Passive House certification as a target.
rootdesignbuild.com
Katrin Klingenberg is the founder and director of the Ecological Construction Laboratory and co-founder of the Passive House Institute US, both based in Urbana, Illinois. She is a licensed architect in Germany, holds a master’s in Architecture from Ball State University, and has taught Building Science and Design Studios at the University of Illinois in Chicago and at Urbana-Champaign. She’s studied and worked with Dr. Wolfgang Feist at the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt, and has delivered several presentations at the annual European Passivhaus conference. Katrin designed and built her Smith House, the first building in the US to meet the Passive House standard, in 2003. She designs, consults and teaches both locally and in various climates nationwide to promote the implementation of Passive House.
www.passivehouse.us
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Günter Lang is the Chief Executive Director of the IG Passivhaus Austria since 2005. The IG Passivhaus Austria (
www.igpassivhaus.at) is the central network for information, quality and continued education in and around Passive House in Austria. The non-profit organization has 280 members across Austria, representing businesses of the entire building sector with 21,000 jobs and 2.6 billion Euros in annual revenue. Günter is also the owner of LANG Consulting since 2001. He has directed, partnered, researched and written on many Passive House projects and topics. His home, where he has lived since 1999, is one of the first Austrian Passive Houses.
Mike LeBeau is the founder and president of Conservation Technologies in Duluth, MN. Since 1994 he and his firm have been specializing in high performance and very low energy building design solutions for cold and very cold climates, utility residential conservation program development and delivery, diagnostic consulting services for investigating energy, indoor air quality, moisture and durability problems in homes and other buildings, mechanical system innovation and integration, and design and installation of renewable energy systems. Additionally he is active in local and regional efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to energy consumption and in research and teaching activities to prepare for coming problems related to shrinking supplies and rising costs of oil and natural gas. He serves on the steering committee for Duluth Cities for Climate Protection Campaign and is co-chair of the Lake Superior Energy Association.
www.conservtech.com
Ken Levenson is a partner in Levenson McDavid Architects P.C., located in Brooklyn, NY - a firm with a wide range of project types and an ever increasing dedication to energy efficiency and a low(er) carbon existence. Becoming obsessed with the unfolding climate catastrophe, Ken built Checklist Toward Zero Carbon at the start of 2008. Currently in the midst of training to become a Passive House certified consultant - Ken is designing a range of projects to meet Passive House standards including multi-family, single family and commercial building projects in New York City.
www.lmarch.com
www.checklisttowardzerocarbon.wordpress.com
Chad Ludeman is the President of
Postgreen, a real estate development company focusing on modern and “green” development in Philadelphia’s urban neighborhoods. Chad’s background is in Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering which is why he likes to research and write about geeky green building topics so much. He also loves modern architecture and entrepreneurship, which is why Postgreen and this blog exist. Chad is devoted to proving that green and modern architecture can be affordable for the average working stiff or will at least die trying. See the
100k House Passive Project.
Barbara Miller is a Co-founder and Executive Director of NAHN* and one of the most significant superinsulation pioneers of the United States. She was instrumentally involved in the “Montana Superinsulation project” in the ‘70s and in many superinsulated homes research projects since then in many climates as varied as Alaska and Texas.
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*The National Affordable Home Network in Montana - a non-profit housing developer that has built thousands of homes very close to the Passive House standard over the past three decades. www.nahn.com
Keihly Moore is the Assistant Director of the ecological construction laboratory (
e-co lab) in Urbana, IL. e-co lab is a non-profit housing developer dedicated to building Passive Houses for low-to-mid income first-time home buyers. As of August 2009, e-co lab is now a program under Passive House Institute US. Keihly just completed her Bachelor of Architecture and Environmental Studies from Iowa State University and was very involved in
Iowa State’s Solar Decathlon team for 2009. She is currently in training to be a Certified Passive House Consultant. Keihly also holds a key to the website design and is an aid in the gathering of funds to improve PHIUS and e-co lab!
Jason Morosko, VP Engineering, UltimateAir Inc. Jason is a designer and educator of leading technology air to air heat exchangers. He is a ten year veteran in the field of ventilation, in addition to holding a bachelors and masters degree in heat transfer engineering. In recent years, he has attended and consulted many major green build conferences and projects. Some projects and awards include 2005 green build product of the year, silver design award for ease of installation in the HVAC News, two zero energy home projects with the Oregon department of energy, The Casey mixed use LEED certified condo project in Portland, Or., and more.
www.ultimateair.com
Hayden Robinson is a Seattle architect and Certified Passive House Consultant specializing in high performance, very low energy use buildings. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Central Puget Sound Chapter of the Northwest Ecobuilding Guild where he serves as Chairperson for the Passive House Committee. www.haydenrobinson.com.
Mary Rogero, AIA, is currently an Assistant Professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She was an owner of Rogero Buckman Architects in Dayton, Ohio for the last 15 years, working extensively on the rehabilitation of older buildings and multifamily housing. The firm also developed a construction company and a real estate development company. She is currently working on a 30-unit senior apartment Passive House project in Yellow Springs, Ohio. www.rbaoh.com/
William B. Rose is Research Architect at the Building Research Council-School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His major field of university research involves water and its effects on buildings. He is the author of Water in Buildings: an architect’s guide to moisture and mold published in 2005 by Wiley & Sons. This book won the Association for Preservation Technology Lee Nelson Award. His current university research projects include sky radiation effects with solar reflective roof surfaces, and combustion product concentrations in houses with unvented combustion appliances. He is the handbook chair of ASHRAE TC4.4, responsible for four ASHRAE Handbook chapters on building envelope performance, and he is a founding member of ASHRAE Standard Committee 160 “Criteria for Moisture Control Design Analysis”. Through William B. Rose & Associates, he consults to museums and historic properties on moisture issues, and is presently involved with the United Nations Building and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/programs/engagement/brc/history/
Marc Rosenbaum, P.E. is the principal and founder of Energysmiths in Meridian, New Hampshire. He is a 28-year veteran of high-performing building design, with an impressive command of an environmentally sound, integrated systems approach. His work has been recognized nationally by ASHRAE, AIA, EEBA, and NESEA, but they didn't see all the mistakes along the way.
www.energysmiths.com
Corey Saft is a registered Architect and certified LEED professional. Along with maintaining a small practice he is also an Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he is the Undergraduate coordinator. He is currently working on a single family residence that is anticipated to be the first (of many) Passive House(s) in the South.
Jeremy R. M. Shannon is the Principal Architect of Prospect Architecture, PC, a sustainable design-build firm located in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Virginia Polytechnic and State University and is, as well a LEED Accredited Professional, BPI Envelope Specialist and Multifamily Specialist, and has completed the Passive House Consultant training. Jeremy specializes in residential townhouse and multifamily building construction using sustainable materials and focusing on energy efficiency without sacrificing the aesthetics. He designed and is currently managing the renovation and retrofit that is expected to achieve Passive House certification of a 2-family, 120 year old townhouse in Brooklyn, New York.
www.prospectarchitecture.com
passivehousebklyn.blogspot.com/
Clarke Snell is a partner in The Nauhaus Group (NHG), an R&D, product development, and design/build organization working toward the creation of a carbon neutral built environment. NHG’s focus is to combine high performance building science with low embodied energy (sometimes called “natural”) building materials, techniques, and strategies. NHG is currently building one of the first houses in the US insulated with hempcrete and perhaps the first hempcrete residence attempting to achieve Passive House certification in the world. Clarke is the author of two books on alternatives to conventional construction, “The Good House Book” and “Building Green: A Complete How-to Guide to Alternative Building Methods”. (Note from Clarke: Our name is an angular reference to Bauhaus and predates our involvement with Passive House. So it’s a Bauhaus rip-off, not a Passivhaus rip-off.)
www.thenauhaus.com
Jonah Stanford is President of NEEDBASED Inc. located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. NEEDBASED provides architectural design and project management services to public and private clients who actively prioritize environmental efficiency and fiscal responsibility. Jonah has managed over 100 million dollars worth of construction for clients ranging from The National Trust of Historic Preservation, the Department of Energy, and many state and county municipalities. In 2008, Jonah was responsible for developing plans for LEED Platinum compliant affordable housing developments with construction costs of less then $85 a square foot and is dedicated to seeing the same occur with Certified Passive Housing. Jonah is currently an architectural preservation consultant on restoration of National Historic Landmarks on DOE properties and designing a multiple family passive house project in Flagstaff.
needbased.com
Dave Stecher is a Building Performance Specialist at IBACOS, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. IBACOS is one of the lead teams in the U.S. Department of Energy's “Building America Program,” conducting research towards zero-energy houses and communities in the US. Dave's passion is to develop better buildings through improved component design and improved installation methods. He is talented at monitoring and analyzing the performance of components and systems in homes. Prior to IBACOS, Dave worked as the Assistant Director for Ecological Construction Laboratory (e-co lab). He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
www.ibacos.com
www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/building_america/about.html
Barry Stephens has been the National Sales and Marketing Manager for Zehnder America, Inc since September 2001, and has worked with their residential towel radiators until recently. Now he is tasked with introducing ventilation and whole-house geothermal based systems to North America. Switzerland based Zehnder Group has been the largest producer of radiators in the world. In the last ten years Zehnder has expanded their focus to develop products and systems to provide for a healthy and energy efficient indoor climate. Zehnder’s premier ventilation products produced by JE StorkAir in Holland and Paul Warmeruckgewinnung GmbH in Germany have received the Passive House Institute certification for energy efficiency. www.zehnderamerica.com
Stephan Tanner is principal of Intep, LLC Minneapolis. During his 30 years of architectural practice, he has designed buildings in Switzerland, the United States, and China. Stephan is committed to making major leaps in building energy efficiencies and user comfort in the United States where 5% of the global population produces 25% of global CO2 emissions. Stephan’s goal is to demonstrate American global leadership in the fight against climate change by making leading edge, high-performance, sustainable buildings a reality for U.S. educational institutions. He designed the BioHaus at Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, Minnesota, the first certified PassivHaus building in North America.
www.intep.com, www.theperfectbuilding.com, www.peakBP.net
Stephen Thwaites is a Professional Engineer and Technical Director for Thermotech Fiberglass Fenestration, a manufacturer of high performance windows. He is a member of the energy sub-commitee for the Canadian Window Standard. Stephen has a good and growing understanding of the energy flows through and around windows - and how they can interact with those of the rest of the house.
www.thermotechfiberglass.com
Rachel Wagner is co-owner of Wagner Zaun Architecture, in Duluth, MN, a firm with a focus in creative and sustainable design. She has a B.S. in Design and Environmental Analysis from Cornell University, and she is a licensed architect in Wisconsin and California. Since 1996, Rachel has specialized in energy-efficient, passive solar residential design for cold climates. Her current work includes research and projects using very low-energy solutions for both new and existing buildings. She is active in local efforts involving environmental issues about design, energy, buildings and community and she presents both regionally and nationally on these topics.
www.wagnerzaun.com
David White has doggedly pursued the making of better buildings from Berkeley to Stuttgart, Tokyo to Meriden NH (where the hell is that?) He operates Right Environments in Brooklyn, NY, an office providing full-service consulting for energy and environmental quality for buildings. He is currently consulting for four New York City architects on Passive House projects. David also teaches a course on fundamentals of energy flows in buildings to architecture students at Parsons the New School, and teaches PHPP as part of the PH Consultant Training. www.rightenvironments.com
, R.A. provides architectural services for commercial and residential buildings. Her unique understanding of building science allows her to rethink and invent elegant holistic solutions to building systems. Her firm specializes in buildings that are healthy, durable and energy efficient, built for the same price as typical construction. Chris teaches internationally and her work has been featured in books, blogs, magazines, and TV. Chris is currently designing a new 80 room hotel and a new 31 unit apartment building in New York City that feature new and innovative solutions to energy efficiency.
