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Mr. Swanson currently serves as National Fire Sprinkler Association’s (NFSA’s) codes and standards specialist. In this role he provides training and education and represents NFSA on code development and technical committees. Prior to joining NFSA, he spent 20 years as a Deputy State Fire Marshal-Inspector/Plan Reviewer with the Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division and served eight years as a firefighter with the City of Lakeville, MN. Mr. Swanson currently serves as a principal member of the NFPA 72 – National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code Technical Committee and is a past member of the International Building Code (IBC) Fire Safety Committee and the International Fire Code (IFC) Interpretation Committee. He has served as a subject matter expert for the International Code Council (ICC) as an instructor and assisted with the development of ICC exam content. From 2013-2017, Mr. Swanson served as a fire service representative appointed by Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton to the Minnesota Board of Architecture and Engineering.

Mindy S. Moore, AICP, Planner with Snyder & Associates, Inc.
Ms. Moore has 20 years of experience as a planner and project manager for various projects including trails, on-street bicycling, wayfinding signage, parks, and comprehensive plans. She’s employed by Snyder & Associates, Inc., which allows her to serve clients in Iowa and the Midwest who want to create active, healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities. She’s passionate about creating communities where people can choose to walk or bike for recreation and transportation; they can connect with nature in parks and greenways; businesses can thrive; and children can play freely.

Mr. Golden is the founder and CEO of Pavement Management Group, headquartered in Heath, Ohio, with satellite offices in Tampa, Florida; Oviedo, Florida and Branson, Missouri. With over 23 years of experience directly within the pavement management, maintenance and engineering industries, his passion truly lies in helping local governments to develop better roadway networks through a standardized pavement management blueprint.

A Sustainable Production, LLC (ASAP) is a woman owned, full-service global sustainability, wellness, and resiliency consulting firm. Founded in 2012, ASAP advocates for creating healthy places for people and planet through education, innovation, and an intersectional environmentalism approach to sustainability that includes regenerative, resilient, equitable, and healthy spaces, communities, and organizations. Ms. Berthelot-Jelovic is an expert in IWBI’s WELL Building Standard. As one of the first Provisional WELL APs, WELL APs, and WELL faculty in the world, she has also been a peer reviewer for WELL v1.0, v2.0 Pilot, and v2 of the Standard, as well as WELL v1 and v2 exams. Ms. Berthelot-Jelovic has worked with more than 4,500 WELL projects globally in various phases and pilots. She works with global companies as they explore WELL for their projects, portfolios, and communities. Ms. Berthelot-Jelovic and her team are currently working on numerous sustainable, healthy, and resilient new community developments globally that are implementing DOE ZERH, WELL for Residential, LEED and WELL for Communities, SITES, FORTFIED, LEED Zero, LEED v5, WELL v2, EnergyStar, and more.

Mr. Simpson founded Gradelta Engineering in 2020 with the intent to help clients better understand the combination of geotechnical and structural engineering that he has worked with for the past 20 years. He earned his B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology. He currently provides engineering services to contractors and fellow engineers for earth structure pricing, along with the plans and calculations needed for construction. He frequently consults with clients regarding the optimal structure type and location on the construction site to minimize risk and maximize useable space. He also works in the education sector providing not just seminars such as this one, but also acting as a subject matter expert creating study guide and test prep content for the NCEES Professional Civil Engineer exam. Mr. Simpson has also worked with lawyers and insurance companies during forensic investigation and lawsuits surrounding retaining walls and slope failures. His hope is that through the instructional services that he currently provides, slopes will remain stable and retaining wall failure will be eliminated.

Mr. Brem is a registered professional engineer since 1987 in California and holds active registration in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. He has led his own small civil engineering and land surveying practice for over 36 years with two offices and up to 28 employees. His experience includes designing private land developments, storm water management systems, sanitary sewer systems, wastewater treatment facilities, and roadways. His firm provides land surveying, construction management, engineering site design and a host of other professional services primarily for private, for-profit companies. He has been involved in the design of over 4000 residential single-family house lots many of which were open space or cluster developments, thousands of condominium units, and over 3 million square feet of commercial/ industrial/institutional space. He has advised MassDEP in numerous task forces and committees including as a present full member of the Stormwater Advisory Committee and on the Title 5, Septic System Stakeholders Group. He is currently the past president, past treasurer and member of the Board of Directors for HBRAM (the Massachusetts Homebuilders Association), past president of NEBA, and a national delegate of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) based in Washington, DC. In 2024 Mr Brem was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey to serve on the prestigious “Unlocking Housing Production Commission” to advise the Governor and the Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities on strategies and recommendations to create over 230,000 new residential units in Massachusetts over the next 10 years. He is a proud 35+ year member of the Westford Rotary Club. He has co-authored, with Harvard Law School Professors Joseph William Singer and Brandon Storm, a legal case study on real estate development entitled the “Case of the Interfaith Neighbors”, July 2016 (PSW021-SM01). In addition to engineering, Mr. Brem has been a land developer and homebuilder recently constructing 25 residential homes in the metrowest area of Massachusetts. He enjoys skiing, golfing, Cape Cod, and his family.

Mr. McConnell’s parking design and consulting experience encompasses nearly 30 years of work with airports, government, military, transit, higher education, resort, healthcare, and corporate clients. He is a member of the National Parking Association’s Parking Consultants Council and a founding member of ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute. He is well-versed in precast concrete, cast-in-place concrete, and steel construction. Mr. McConnell’s experience includes numerous restorations, parking study, and programming projects. Several of his projects have received LEED certification, and he is an accredited GBCI Parksmart Advisor.

Dr. Rubin is an emeritus professor in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. He has published in scientific journals and popular press on issues related to wastewater and biosolids treatment, solid waste management, stormwater management and ISO 14000 environmental management systems addressing the animal industry. Dr. Rubin was a visiting scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington D.C. from 1999 through 2005. He was active in development of guidelines for wastewater and biosolids management at USEPA. Dr. Rubin is currently president of A.R. Rubin and Associates, a consulting firm dedicated to evaluation and assessment of sustainable resource management and recovery solutions.

Paul H. Raymer has been working with building science for more than forty years, and he has developed and brought to market more than twenty products. He is the author of the Residential Ventilation Handbook 2nd Edition (Salty Air Publishing, 2017). Mr. Raymer is BPI Envelope, Building Analyst, Heating Professional, AC/Heat Pump certified, IDL, Healthy Housing Evaluator, a BPI Proctor, and a certified HERS Rater, a full member of ASHRAE (the 62.2 Standard Committee), an IREC (Interstate Renewable Energy Council) Assessor and a member of the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE). His first teaching experience was in a one-room school on the coast of Labrador, teaching all grades and all subjects simultaneously. Mr. Raymer has provided training and mentoring for building professionals all across the country and is a frequent conference presenter.

Paul H. Raymer has been working with building science for more than forty years, and he has developed and brought to market more than twenty products. He is the author of the Residential Ventilation Handbook 2nd Edition (Salty Air Publishing, 2017). Mr. Raymer is BPI Envelope, Building Analyst, Heating Professional, AC/Heat Pump certified, IDL, Healthy Housing Evaluator, a BPI Proctor, and a certified HERS Rater, a full member of ASHRAE (the 62.2 Standard Committee), an IREC (Interstate Renewable Energy Council) Assessor and a member of the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE). His first teaching experience was in a one-room school on the coast of Labrador, teaching all grades and all subjects simultaneously. Mr. Raymer has provided training and mentoring for building professionals all across the country and is a frequent conference presenter.

Principal Architect and Co-Founder
Principal at both Inspired ADUs and Larson Shores Architecture and Interiors, Ms. Shores Diller is dedicated to timeless architectural and design excellence rooted in a sense of place and purpose. She is a licensed architect, LEED AP, and Cerr Specialist who received her master’s degree in architecture from UC Berkeley, where she met her business partner Josh Larson. Ms. Shores Diller’s fierce commitment to ADUs and aging in community began when she, herself, faced serious spinal problems. She realized, firsthand, that her home was fighting rather than supporting her. The wisdom gained from her 10-year battle for wellness and personal independence opened her eyes to the environmental needs of the disabled and elderly and informs every Inspired ADU. Ms. Shores Diller is an integral member of Berkeley’s ADU Task Force and the Casita Coalition, helping to educate homeowners and move legislation along. In addition, she works as the Northern California instructor for Kol Peterson and Earth Advantage’s ADU Specialists program. Today Inspired ADUs has built and or designed over 120 ADUs in the Bay Area. Millie, our modular ADU with nine configurations, will be available in late Spring, early Summer of 2022.

Mr. Simpson founded Gradelta Engineering in 2020 with the intent to help clients better understand the combination of geotechnical and structural engineering that he has worked with for the past 20 years. He earned his B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology. He currently provides engineering services to contractors and fellow engineers for earth structure pricing, along with the plans and calculations needed for construction. He frequently consults with clients regarding the optimal structure type and location on the construction site to minimize risk and maximize useable space. He also works in the education sector providing not just seminars such as this one, but also acting as a subject matter expert creating study guide and test prep content for the NCEES Professional Civil Engineer exam. Mr. Simpson has also worked with lawyers and insurance companies during forensic investigation and lawsuits surrounding retaining walls and slope failures. His hope is that through the instructional services that he currently provides, slopes will remain stable and retaining wall failure will be eliminated.

Mr. Squerciati has over 26 years of post-disaster damage assessment and hazard mitigation experience under Dewberry’s Technical Assistance Contracts with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He has worked on numerous floods and other natural disasters as well as terrorist events. Mr. Squerciati has provided assistance in developing and updating several FEMA policy and technical documents including Protecting Building Utilities From Flood Damage (FEMA P-348), Mitigation Assessment Team Report: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast (FEMA 549), Flood Damage-Resistant Materials Requirements (NFIP Technical Bulletin 2), Protecting Manufactured Homes from Floods and Other Hazards (FEMA P-85), Engineering Principles and Practices for Retrofitting Flood Prone Residential Buildings (FEMA P-259), Hurricane Isaac in Louisiana Mitigation Assessment Team Report (FEMA P-938), Floodproofing Non-Residential Buildings (FEMA P-936), Mitigation Assessment Team Report – Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and New York: Building Performance Observations, Recommendations, and Technical Guidance (FEMA P-942), and Mitigation Assessment Team Report – Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico (FEMA P-2020). Mr. Squerciati currently serves on flood-related technical standard committees for both the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and ASTM International.

Mr. Squerciati has developed course materials and served as an instructor for the following courses at FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute: Multi-Hazard Mitigation Design Concepts (E312), Retrofitting Flood-Prone Residential Buildings (E279), Benefit-Cost Analysis (E276), Public Assistance Mitigation (E239), Residential Coastal Construction (E386) and Advanced FEMA Building Science Concepts (E2460). In addition, he assisted in the development of materials and been an instructor for numerous field training workshops, webinars and online seminars for Substantial Damage estimation, structural flood-proofing, NFIP technical bulletins, coastal construction, protecting manufactured homes from flooding, and Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA). Mr. Squerciati received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil engineering from the Cooper Union with a major in structural engineering and a minor in geotechnical engineering. He has taken additional course work on engineering for extreme winds at Texas Tech University. Mr. Squerciati is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Louisiana and is a Certified Floodplain Manager.

Mr. Clase holds a bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning and a master’s degree in Public Administration from The Ohio State University’s School of Public Policy and Management. With expansive professional experience, he has been previously employed as a public employee in city, village, township and county governments throughout Delaware and Union counties. As an experienced public official, Mr. Clase established the business in 2013 with the primary mission of helping clients to develop a local quality of life through smart growth and sustainable planning. Today, he has brought together a team of professionals who provide start to finish assistance on client projects. Mr. Clase is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has also served as a member of regional planning commissions, public works committees, public safety committees, appeals board, zoning commission, health board, transit board, along with various other boards and committees. Since 2013, Plan 4 Land has been focused on providing high-quality, professional land use planning and public policy assistance to local governments, small businesses and land owners. The company uses the expertise of those trained as, or who have served as, local government officials and small business owners, executives and managers to help provide assistance in the fields of conservation, development, policy and zoning. Plan 4 Land strives to blend conservation and development to better the quality of life for its clients. With a focus on conservation development, the firm strives to educate clients on the success of Randall Arendt’s vision for a farm village that provides smart growth opportunities as published in Rural by Design.