Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandMarch 3, 2020
    Michael B. Duclos

    Speakers

    Michael B. Duclos

    Principal and Founder of THE DEAP Energy Group, LLC
    Mr. Duclos is a principal and founder of THE DEAP Energy Group, LLC, a consultancy providing a wide variety of deep energy retrofit, zero net energy and Passive House-related consulting services. He is a founder, on the board of directors, and director of education of Energy Raters of Massachusetts, Inc., a RESNET-certified HERS Provider specifically catering to independent HERS Raters in New England. Mr. Duclos also founded Energy Efficiency Associates, LLC, to provide conventional home HERS, energy audit, Stretch Code, tax certification and associated verification and consulting services.

    Mr. Duclos was an energy consultant on the Transformations, Inc., Massachusetts Zero Energy Challenge entry, which was awarded the second prize of $15K. He has worked on a variety of Zero Net Energy, DER and Passive House projects, including two National Grid DER projects which qualified for the ACI Thousand Homes Challenge, Option B, both of which have certified with a year of energy consumption data to use less energy than specified by THC Option B. Mr. Duclos conducted a feasibility study of a retrofit to the Passive House new home performance standard. He assisted with the design and preparation of the PHPP for the first EnerPHIT certified home in the US.

    Mr. Duclos also worked on the design and certification of the first National Grid DER  project to successfully qualify for the Zero Net Energy incentive, which completed a year of use with a surplus of 500 KWHR. He served on the NESEA Zero Energy Task force which analyzed utility bill data from applicants for the annual $10K award for the best zero net energy home. Mr. Duclos is a founding member and was on the board of directors of Passive House New England, Inc., a non-profit promoting high performance building, including Passive House. He is a member of the Northeast HERS Alliance Technical Committee and was on the MassSave New Construction Program HERS Rater Panel.

    Mr. Duclos monitors the delivered performance of his projects using a variety of real time electricity monitors, as well as temperature, RH and CO2 loggers and correlates this data to the expected performance predicted by his energy models. The actual data, and the stories behind the data are made available to the public in speaking engagements in a variety of public venues, and in publications like Home Energy Magazine.

    Mr. Duclos is an ITC-certified building science infrared thermographer, and he is the certified Passive House consultant responsible for the design and certification of the second Passive House in Massachusetts. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from UMass Lowell, and two patents.

    Mr. Duclos consulted on the first multifamily Passive House certified in New Hampshire, a 24-unit affordable senior housing facility near Laconia, New Hampshire.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandOctober 13, 2016
    Jason Morosko

    Speakers

    Jason Morosko

    UltimateAir, Inc.

    Vice President of Engineering with UltimateAir, Inc.
    Mr. Morosko is a vice president with UltimateAir, a research, design, and manufacturing company of leading technology air-to-air heat exchangers. Mr. Morosko is a 12-year veteran in this field, and he holds bachelors and masters degrees in Heat Transfer Engineering. He became a certified Passive House consultant, and has taught the curriculum to become a certified Passive House consultant. Mr. Morosko has built his own Passive House duplex, and he has consulted on various Passive House projects in the particular areas of mechanical systems, shell design, and ventilation.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandJuly 27, 2018
    Todd Collins + 4 Other Speakers

    Speakers

    Todd Collins

    AE Building Systems

    AE Building SystemsMr. Collins is Passive House trained and the founder of AE Building Systems. AE Building Systems supplies architects, builders and building owners with the products necessary to achieve high performance building objectives including Passive House, Zero Energy, LEED, RESNET/HERS, Energy Star, etc. AE’s passion is fueled by the desire to provide home and building owners with comfortable, healthy, durable and highly energy efficient places to live, work and play. Having had an interest in passive solar design and high performance buildings since the late 80’s, his passion centers around energy efficiency. Climate change, sustainability and the rapid consumption of our energy resources further fuel Mr. Collins objectives in helping make buildings more energy efficient. His biggest driver is related to the energy crisis we are setting our children up for in the future. His background includes a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA degree with a focus in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

    Cody Farmer

    MainStream Corporation
    Before there was green building for Cody Farmer, there was vision of the American dream and the freedom to work with and build with family and friends. Co-founding MainStream Corporation in September 2007, the door opened to that dream. Building some of the nation’s tightest and best known Passive Houses, MainStream has since become a local go-to Passive House and performance building boutique with laser-like focus on the deployment of integrated design results, advanced building envelopes, air tight detailing, ventilation and indoor air quality, energy modeling and contractor training. With roots in real estate investing, he has successfully brought Passive House principles to tiny homes, “McMansions,” Mighty Arrow Passive House, Gilcrest Library, Pelican Lake Ranch maintenance building, City of Lafayette building, City of Fort Collins, Passivista, Traveler’s Rest and many custom “McPassive Houses,” “Almosta” Passive Houses, and the pinnacle passive solar houses. A business marketing graduate of the University of Northern Colorado’s Monfort College of Business 2001, he spent several years prior serving as the director of marketing for a high-tech R&D firm helping bring new government-funded projects into the marketplace. In 2007 he served as a member of Colorado’s Air Force National Guard unit at Greeley’s 137th Space Warning Squadron working with remote living conditions. He then obtained an M.S. degree in Construction Management and Sustainable Building at Colorado State University 2011.

    Lisa Farmer

    MainStream Corporation

    MainStream CorporationNavy veteran Lisa Farmer returned home to Colorado in 2001 after serving six years. She continued her training from the military to include a Civil Engineering degree from Colorado State University in 2004, later obtaining her professional engineers license in 2007. Beginning in the water resources sector, she became an excellent project engineer for water systems and reservoirs. She managed project schedules and budgets, and sub-contractors from design through construction. Taking those skills further into the built environment, she joined her husband Cody at MainStream Corporation in 2012 to design buildings that are healthier and can exist off-grid. She obtained her Certified Passive House Consultant designation in 2012 and is intimately familiar with both PHPP and WUFI-Passive. She runs energy models and coaches architects, owners and builders on how given building envelopes change in order to meet Passive House Standards. Together, the Farmers have succeeded in designing some of the healthiest and most comfortable buildings using the Passive House design strategies. With project owners who need and desire interior health and comfort, their principles bring value ten-fold. Their specialty in air-tightness and fresh air ventilation provide significant energy savings on all their projects, while two have managed to achieve the third party Passive House certification. The buildings’ electrical use will significantly be reduced from today’s code-built construction. Ms. Farmer has lead marketing efforts at MainStream to provide these resources not only to custom residential, but also to tiny homes, maintenance buildings, town halls and libraries.

    Andrew Michler, CPHC

    Hyperlocal Workshop

    CPHCMr. Michler is the designer of MARTaK, the award winning first-certified, International Passive House in Colorado. His work includes building design, environmental architecture writing and theory, bespoke projects, and multi-media. He is the author of the book Hyperlocalization of Architecture and has presented globally on Passive House and the future of sustainable building design. He is the chair of Passive House Rocky Mountains, part of the North American Passive House Network.

    Hans Preiss

    BrightSense LLC

    BrightSense LLCMr. Preiss is based in Boulder, Colorado, where he is working to simplify the approach to net-zero energy buildings to the point where it becomes affordable and mainstream. He always considers all the components that make up the system we call “building,” but his main focus is on rightsizing the best suited HVAC equipment for a project. Mr. Preiss previously held engineering positions at the Thermotech­nology division of Robert Bosch North America, and brought high efficiency boilers, water heaters, and solar thermal equipment to the North American market. He has a degree in Engineering Physics with specialization in Environmental Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandApril 27, 2018
    Darren Macri

    Speakers

    Darren Macri

    Bleu Nest

    CEO and Founder of Bleu Nest; Certified Passive House Consultant & Tradesperson, LEED AP and Intus High Performance Windows Rep.
    Over the last decade, Mr. Macri has been homebuilding and renovating projects consisting of multi-family condo conversions and single family townhouses. He is the proud builder of New Jersey’s First Certified Passive House at 0.29 AHCn50. Mr. Macri was selected to share his Passive House knowledge and hands-on experience as a presenter at the North American Passive House Conference in Vancouver just last year. He has also taught numerous continuing education classes and Passive House 101 Seminars. Bleu Nest seeks liberate people from the ‘average home building standard’ by injecting High Performance Passive House know-how into their projects and out into the world so that we may all MAKE AVERAGE THE ENEMY and BUILD BETTER.  
     


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandAugust 31, 2017
    David Horton + 1 Other Speaker

    Speakers

    David Horton

    David Horton Director of Green Certifications, Sol Design + Consulting
    Mr. Horton is a skilled tradesman turned energy geek. He began his journey retrofitting historic buildings. As Mr. Horton saw the care required to restore historic buildings, he hoped to be able to modernize their performance. Through training provided by PHIUS, GBCI, RESNET and other building performance-oriented organizations, he acquired the necessary skills to guide project teams to the highest performing building approach possible. Mr. Horton has done this by working on hundreds of Energy Star homes, more than 300 LEED projects, and Passive House projects spread out across six states. As one of the founding members of Passive House Alliance Kentucky, he aims to bring Passive House and other high-performance building approaches to the mainstream. Mr. Horton has been the CPHC or PHIUS+ Rater on projects in Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri. He provides consulting support on multifamily PHIUS+ projects in central and western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. He has been the green rater and HERS rater on 300+ LEED projects totaling thousands of units and has acted as field quality assurance for Raters under HERS Providers for multiple years. Mr. Horton has created solutions to a plethora of problems in old buildings, with respect to energy efficiency, and has been part of teams that constructed multiple different building types with multiple uses. Mr. Horton holds CPHC, PHIUS+ Rater, HERS Rater/QAD/Trainer, LEED AP Homes and LEED Green Rater/QAD certifications.

    Sanyog Rathod

    Sol Design + Consulting

    Founder and CEO, Sol Design + ConsultingMr. Rathod is a licensed architect with a Master’s degree in Architecture, and brings 25 years of international design and construction experience of working on large complex projects. He maintains the highest standards of global knowledge, experience and leadership in sustainable design through active involvement in the profession, academia and community. Sol Design + Consulting is a Cincinnati-based firm which provides sustainability consulting and green building certification services. As an Enterprise Green Communities and LEED provider and verifier, Mr. Rathod has certified over 5,000 residential and commercial units in over 15 states and globally. Sol certified the nation’s first LEED for Homes Midrise Platinum housing for the homeless in 2010, and has recently certified the first international Platinum LEED for Homes project in all of the Middle East.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandSeptember 12, 2017
    David Horton

    Speakers

    David Horton

    David Horton Director of Green Certifications, Sol Design + Consulting
    Mr. Horton is a skilled tradesman turned energy geek. He began his journey retrofitting historic buildings. As Mr. Horton saw the care required to restore historic buildings, he hoped to be able to modernize their performance. Through training provided by PHIUS, GBCI, RESNET and other building performance-oriented organizations, he acquired the necessary skills to guide project teams to the highest performing building approach possible. Mr. Horton has done this by working on hundreds of Energy Star homes, more than 300 LEED projects, and Passive House projects spread out across six states. As one of the founding members of Passive House Alliance Kentucky, he aims to bring Passive House and other high-performance building approaches to the mainstream. Mr. Horton has been the CPHC or PHIUS+ Rater on projects in Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri. He provides consulting support on multifamily PHIUS+ projects in central and western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. He has been the green rater and HERS rater on 300+ LEED projects totaling thousands of units and has acted as field quality assurance for Raters under HERS Providers for multiple years. Mr. Horton has created solutions to a plethora of problems in old buildings, with respect to energy efficiency, and has been part of teams that constructed multiple different building types with multiple uses. Mr. Horton holds CPHC, PHIUS+ Rater, HERS Rater/QAD/Trainer, LEED AP Homes and LEED Green Rater/QAD certifications.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandJuly 13, 2016
    Michael B. Duclos

    Speakers

    Michael B. Duclos

    Principal and Founder of THE DEAP Energy Group, LLC
    Mr. Duclos is a principal and founder of THE DEAP Energy Group, LLC, a consultancy providing a wide variety of deep energy retrofit, zero net energy and Passive House-related consulting services. He is a founder, on the board of directors, and director of education of Energy Raters of Massachusetts, Inc., a RESNET-certified HERS Provider specifically catering to independent HERS Raters in New England. Mr. Duclos also founded Energy Efficiency Associates, LLC, to provide conventional home HERS, energy audit, Stretch Code, tax certification and associated verification and consulting services.

    Mr. Duclos was an energy consultant on the Transformations, Inc., Massachusetts Zero Energy Challenge entry, which was awarded the second prize of $15K. He has worked on a variety of Zero Net Energy, DER and Passive House projects, including two National Grid DER projects which qualified for the ACI Thousand Homes Challenge, Option B, both of which have certified with a year of energy consumption data to use less energy than specified by THC Option B. Mr. Duclos conducted a feasibility study of a retrofit to the Passive House new home performance standard. He assisted with the design and preparation of the PHPP for the first EnerPHIT certified home in the US.

    Mr. Duclos also worked on the design and certification of the first National Grid DER  project to successfully qualify for the Zero Net Energy incentive, which completed a year of use with a surplus of 500 KWHR. He served on the NESEA Zero Energy Task force which analyzed utility bill data from applicants for the annual $10K award for the best zero net energy home. Mr. Duclos is a founding member and was on the board of directors of Passive House New England, Inc., a non-profit promoting high performance building, including Passive House. He is a member of the Northeast HERS Alliance Technical Committee and was on the MassSave New Construction Program HERS Rater Panel.

    Mr. Duclos monitors the delivered performance of his projects using a variety of real time electricity monitors, as well as temperature, RH and CO2 loggers and correlates this data to the expected performance predicted by his energy models. The actual data, and the stories behind the data are made available to the public in speaking engagements in a variety of public venues, and in publications like Home Energy Magazine.

    Mr. Duclos is an ITC-certified building science infrared thermographer, and he is the certified Passive House consultant responsible for the design and certification of the second Passive House in Massachusetts. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from UMass Lowell, and two patents.

    Mr. Duclos consulted on the first multifamily Passive House certified in New Hampshire, a 24-unit affordable senior housing facility near Laconia, New Hampshire.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandJanuary 23, 2018
    David Horton + 1 Other Speaker

    Speakers

    David Horton

    David Horton Director of Green Certifications, Sol Design + Consulting
    Mr. Horton is a skilled tradesman turned energy geek. He began his journey retrofitting historic buildings. As Mr. Horton saw the care required to restore historic buildings, he hoped to be able to modernize their performance. Through training provided by PHIUS, GBCI, RESNET and other building performance-oriented organizations, he acquired the necessary skills to guide project teams to the highest performing building approach possible. Mr. Horton has done this by working on hundreds of Energy Star homes, more than 300 LEED projects, and Passive House projects spread out across six states. As one of the founding members of Passive House Alliance Kentucky, he aims to bring Passive House and other high-performance building approaches to the mainstream. Mr. Horton has been the CPHC or PHIUS+ Rater on projects in Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri. He provides consulting support on multifamily PHIUS+ projects in central and western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. He has been the green rater and HERS rater on 300+ LEED projects totaling thousands of units and has acted as field quality assurance for Raters under HERS Providers for multiple years. Mr. Horton has created solutions to a plethora of problems in old buildings, with respect to energy efficiency, and has been part of teams that constructed multiple different building types with multiple uses. Mr. Horton holds CPHC, PHIUS+ Rater, HERS Rater/QAD/Trainer, LEED AP Homes and LEED Green Rater/QAD certifications.

    Sanyog Rathod

    Sol Design + Consulting

    Founder and CEO, Sol Design + ConsultingMr. Rathod is a licensed architect with a Master’s degree in Architecture, and brings 25 years of international design and construction experience of working on large complex projects. He maintains the highest standards of global knowledge, experience and leadership in sustainable design through active involvement in the profession, academia and community. Sol Design + Consulting is a Cincinnati-based firm which provides sustainability consulting and green building certification services. As an Enterprise Green Communities and LEED provider and verifier, Mr. Rathod has certified over 5,000 residential and commercial units in over 15 states and globally. Sol certified the nation’s first LEED for Homes Midrise Platinum housing for the homeless in 2010, and has recently certified the first international Platinum LEED for Homes project in all of the Middle East.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandMarch 22, 2016
    Scott Kosmecki + 1 Other Speaker

    Speakers

    Scott Kosmecki, Hinge Build Group, LLC

    Mr. Kosmecki is the founder and manager of Hinge Build Group, LLC, a design-build firm that specializes in bringing high-performance speculative building projects to market. Hinge focuses on foam-free building techniques and creates more healthy and thoughtful living spaces. Currently the company is finishing their first Passive House-certified project for the Portland, Oregon, market. Mr. Kosmecki has been involved with the Passive House community since becoming a certified Passive House consultant in 2012. He has created webinars for the Passive House Institute US, lectured on various high-performance building topics and currently is helping manage the local PHIUS chapter in Portland, Oregon. With a masters degree in Architecture from the University of Oregon and almost 20 years as a contractor, Mr. Kosmecki has helped many clients as well as other builders and architects find ways to achieve design and efficiency goals while staying within their budgets.

    Dylan Lamar

    Green Hammer

    Mr. Lamar is one of the leading Passivhaus consultants and teachers in the country, having designed Passivhauses since 2004. He has worked on many Passivhaus first’s in the nation including office/educational buildings (2011), affordable single-family houses (2004), and the largest multifamily Passivhaus in the US (2015). Mr. Lamar has instructed at PHIUS trainings, the University of Oregon, and numerous conference workshops. He translated the PHPP software into IP-units, in 2008 and again in 2014. Mr. Lamar works as an architect and energy consultant with Green Hammer, a design-build firm in Portland, Oregon, and he also provides Passivhaus certification services through CertiPHIers Coop.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandJanuary 30, 2018
    Matthew Fine + 1 Other Speaker

    Speakers

    Matthew Fine,

    Peabody Architects

    Project Manager at Peabody Architects
    Mr. Fine has over 10 years of experience in project design, management, and production services. His responsibilities have ranged from conceptual design through contract administration to project closeout. Much of Mr. Fine’s knowledge and expertise centers on multi-family residential, mixed-use, urban infill, interior fit-out and adaptive re-use. Mr. Fine received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. As a LEED® accredited professional, he continually seeks to push sustainable and innovative building solutions while addressing the most basic, but often overlooked, role of architecture. Mr. Fine is a certified Passive House consultant (PHIUS). Previously, Mr. Fine served as director of ZA+Dpassiv, a division of Zavos Architects. He was the project leader of that firm’s very successful 2015 Weinberg Commons project, a Passive House retrofit of three 1950’s multifamily housing units. He also has experience in high-performance single family homes. He designed Arlington’s first Passive House in 2012, and two Passive House townhouses (Habitat Empowerhouse) in Ivy City 2014.

    David Peabody,

    Peabody Architects

    Peabody Architects in Alexandria, VA
    Mr. Peabody has led Peabody Architects, in Alexandria, Virginia, since 1992, designing more than 100 homes and additions. Witnessing and participating in the growth of sprawl in the suburban DC area through the ‘90’s led to awareness that the way building is done today is not sustainable, and a conviction that architects cannot sit on the fence on environmental issues. Since committing the practice to sustainable design in 2000, he has become increasingly active in issues regarding architecture and the environment, and he has made these issues central to the way the firm approaches its work. In 2004, he became a LEED accredited professional, and in 2009 he became a Passive House certified consultant– one of the first architects in the country to achieve this certification. Mr. Peabody earned his Master of Architecture degree in 1977 from Yale School of Architecture.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandJune 25, 2019
    Roger Taylor + 1 Other Speaker

    Speakers

    Roger Taylor, HERS Rater

    Certified Passive House Consultant and Owner of DwellGreen of Dallas, TX

    Mr. Taylor is a certified Passive House consultant and Passive House rater. He is a HERS Rater, and he is certified by Energy Star, DOE Zero Energy Ready Home, IECC and BPI. Mr. Taylor has served on the ANSI/RESNET National Committee for water efficiency; on the Environmental Committee for the Town of Fairview, Texas, and as project manager for large commercial data centers. This is a second career after the US Navy, a computer science degree and 35 years in the computer services industry.

    Paul Westbrook, LEED AP

    RE:source Design, LLC

    Mr. Westbrook designed his own solar home in north Texas in 1996, which won the Energy Value Housing Award for Innovative Design. It still ranks as one of the most efficient homes in Texas. While serving as Sustainable Development Manager at Texas Instruments International Facilities, Mr. Westbrook was the LEED AP for the 1.1 million square foot Texas Instruments factory, which was the first LEED Gold semiconductor factory in the world. He led the effort to improve the energy and water efficiency of TI’s 20 million square feet of existing global facilities. They were able to double the company energy and water efficiency in less than 10 years. In 2012, Mr. Westbrook was named a Senior Fellow for the US State Department’s Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas program. He visited Honduras, Bolivia, Columbia, and Peru where he worked with governments, universities, and industry on efficiency and renewable energy. Mr. Westbrook received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1982.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandFebruary 7, 2018
    Jason Morosko

    Speakers

    Jason Morosko

    UltimateAir, Inc.

    Vice President of Engineering with UltimateAir, Inc.
    Mr. Morosko is a vice president with UltimateAir, a research, design, and manufacturing company of leading technology air-to-air heat exchangers. Mr. Morosko is a 12-year veteran in this field, and he holds bachelors and masters degrees in Heat Transfer Engineering. He became a certified Passive House consultant, and has taught the curriculum to become a certified Passive House consultant. Mr. Morosko has built his own Passive House duplex, and he has consulted on various Passive House projects in the particular areas of mechanical systems, shell design, and ventilation.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    SeminarApril 12, 2016
    Michael Bonsby + 2 Other Speakers

    Speakers

    Michael Bonsby

    Michael Bonsby Heating and Air Conditioning, LLC

    Mr. Bonsby has 25 years of experience providing residential and commercial HVAC installation, repair and maintenance services in the metro DC area.

    Matthew Fine,

    Peabody Architects

    Project Manager at Peabody Architects
    Mr. Fine has over 10 years of experience in project design, management, and production services. His responsibilities have ranged from conceptual design through contract administration to project closeout. Much of Mr. Fine’s knowledge and expertise centers on multi-family residential, mixed-use, urban infill, interior fit-out and adaptive re-use. Mr. Fine received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. As a LEED® accredited professional, he continually seeks to push sustainable and innovative building solutions while addressing the most basic, but often overlooked, role of architecture. Mr. Fine is a certified Passive House consultant (PHIUS). Previously, Mr. Fine served as director of ZA+Dpassiv, a division of Zavos Architects. He was the project leader of that firm’s very successful 2015 Weinberg Commons project, a Passive House retrofit of three 1950’s multifamily housing units. He also has experience in high-performance single family homes. He designed Arlington’s first Passive House in 2012, and two Passive House townhouses (Habitat Empowerhouse) in Ivy City 2014.

    David Peabody,

    Peabody Architects

    Peabody Architects in Alexandria, VA
    Mr. Peabody has led Peabody Architects, in Alexandria, Virginia, since 1992, designing more than 100 homes and additions. Witnessing and participating in the growth of sprawl in the suburban DC area through the ‘90’s led to awareness that the way building is done today is not sustainable, and a conviction that architects cannot sit on the fence on environmental issues. Since committing the practice to sustainable design in 2000, he has become increasingly active in issues regarding architecture and the environment, and he has made these issues central to the way the firm approaches its work. In 2004, he became a LEED accredited professional, and in 2009 he became a Passive House certified consultant– one of the first architects in the country to achieve this certification. Mr. Peabody earned his Master of Architecture degree in 1977 from Yale School of Architecture.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandAugust 16, 2016
    David Horton

    Speakers

    David Horton

    David Horton Director of Green Certifications, Sol Design + Consulting
    Mr. Horton is a skilled tradesman turned energy geek. He began his journey retrofitting historic buildings. As Mr. Horton saw the care required to restore historic buildings, he hoped to be able to modernize their performance. Through training provided by PHIUS, GBCI, RESNET and other building performance-oriented organizations, he acquired the necessary skills to guide project teams to the highest performing building approach possible. Mr. Horton has done this by working on hundreds of Energy Star homes, more than 300 LEED projects, and Passive House projects spread out across six states. As one of the founding members of Passive House Alliance Kentucky, he aims to bring Passive House and other high-performance building approaches to the mainstream. Mr. Horton has been the CPHC or PHIUS+ Rater on projects in Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri. He provides consulting support on multifamily PHIUS+ projects in central and western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. He has been the green rater and HERS rater on 300+ LEED projects totaling thousands of units and has acted as field quality assurance for Raters under HERS Providers for multiple years. Mr. Horton has created solutions to a plethora of problems in old buildings, with respect to energy efficiency, and has been part of teams that constructed multiple different building types with multiple uses. Mr. Horton holds CPHC, PHIUS+ Rater, HERS Rater/QAD/Trainer, LEED AP Homes and LEED Green Rater/QAD certifications.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandApril 19, 2016
    David Horton

    Speakers

    David Horton

    David Horton Director of Green Certifications, Sol Design + Consulting
    Mr. Horton is a skilled tradesman turned energy geek. He began his journey retrofitting historic buildings. As Mr. Horton saw the care required to restore historic buildings, he hoped to be able to modernize their performance. Through training provided by PHIUS, GBCI, RESNET and other building performance-oriented organizations, he acquired the necessary skills to guide project teams to the highest performing building approach possible. Mr. Horton has done this by working on hundreds of Energy Star homes, more than 300 LEED projects, and Passive House projects spread out across six states. As one of the founding members of Passive House Alliance Kentucky, he aims to bring Passive House and other high-performance building approaches to the mainstream. Mr. Horton has been the CPHC or PHIUS+ Rater on projects in Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri. He provides consulting support on multifamily PHIUS+ projects in central and western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. He has been the green rater and HERS rater on 300+ LEED projects totaling thousands of units and has acted as field quality assurance for Raters under HERS Providers for multiple years. Mr. Horton has created solutions to a plethora of problems in old buildings, with respect to energy efficiency, and has been part of teams that constructed multiple different building types with multiple uses. Mr. Horton holds CPHC, PHIUS+ Rater, HERS Rater/QAD/Trainer, LEED AP Homes and LEED Green Rater/QAD certifications.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandJuly 24, 2019
    Matthew Fine + 1 Other Speaker

    Speakers

    Matthew Fine,

    Peabody Architects

    Project Manager at Peabody Architects
    Mr. Fine has over 10 years of experience in project design, management, and production services. His responsibilities have ranged from conceptual design through contract administration to project closeout. Much of Mr. Fine’s knowledge and expertise centers on multi-family residential, mixed-use, urban infill, interior fit-out and adaptive re-use. Mr. Fine received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. As a LEED® accredited professional, he continually seeks to push sustainable and innovative building solutions while addressing the most basic, but often overlooked, role of architecture. Mr. Fine is a certified Passive House consultant (PHIUS). Previously, Mr. Fine served as director of ZA+Dpassiv, a division of Zavos Architects. He was the project leader of that firm’s very successful 2015 Weinberg Commons project, a Passive House retrofit of three 1950’s multifamily housing units. He also has experience in high-performance single family homes. He designed Arlington’s first Passive House in 2012, and two Passive House townhouses (Habitat Empowerhouse) in Ivy City 2014.

    David Peabody,

    Peabody Architects

    Peabody Architects in Alexandria, VA
    Mr. Peabody has led Peabody Architects, in Alexandria, Virginia, since 1992, designing more than 100 homes and additions. Witnessing and participating in the growth of sprawl in the suburban DC area through the ‘90’s led to awareness that the way building is done today is not sustainable, and a conviction that architects cannot sit on the fence on environmental issues. Since committing the practice to sustainable design in 2000, he has become increasingly active in issues regarding architecture and the environment, and he has made these issues central to the way the firm approaches its work. In 2004, he became a LEED accredited professional, and in 2009 he became a Passive House certified consultant– one of the first architects in the country to achieve this certification. Mr. Peabody earned his Master of Architecture degree in 1977 from Yale School of Architecture.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    SeminarDecember 14, 2016
    Glenn Hooper + 2 Other Speakers

    Speakers

    Glenn Hooper

    Residential Energy Conservation

    Glenn Hooper is the owner of Residential Energy Conservation, located in Suffolk County, New York. He has been certified by the Building Performance Institute as a building analyst, shell/envelope professional and heating professional. Mr. Hooper currently is an active HERS Rater. He has been certified by Snell as a Level I certified Thermographer. Mr. Hooper has also been a past RESNET rater trainer and quality assurance designee. He is a Passive House rater, DOE – qualified home assessor, and NYS trainer for RHVAC Manual J 8th Edition with Training for the Trades. Mr. Hooper’s company won DOE Century Club Awards in 2010, 2011, and 2012 for completing over 100 home performance projects per year. He also sat on the board for the Long Island and NYS Building Performance Contractors Association and was a board member for the North East HERS Raters Association as the QA chairperson. Since 2006, Mr. Hooper has consulted on hundreds of homes in the tri-state area for architects, builders and homeowners and has worked extensively in trying to educate the industry in all areas of building science.

    Anthony Musso

    Anthony J. Musso, Architect

    Anthony Musso founded the firm of Anthony J. Musso, Architect, in 1980. Since then the firm has provided architectural design, building performance and sustainable design, interior design, landscape design, and graphic design in projects on Long Island and in Metropolitan New York, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Bahamas. The firm’s client base is predominantly the custom residential market, although its work has also included the areas of restaurant design, commercial office buildings, country club facilities, school design, medical office projects and research facilities. The office is a full service firm, encompassing architectural design, building performance and sustainable design, planning, structural mechanical engineering, site planning, landscape design and interior design. The goals of the firm are to achieve a “near zero” energy sustainable building design. The combination of architecture, interior design and landscape design as one discipline to create a unified design solution has been the office doctrine. Mr. Musso is the sole proprietor with supporting part time/freelance architects and interior designers. He is licensed to practice architecture in New York, Virginia and New Jersey.

    Daniella Ravn

    New Habitat Architecture & Design, P.C.

    Daniella Ravn is a licensed architect in New York State and Brazil, and is founder of New Habitat Architecture & Design, P.C. She is a certified Passive House consultant since 2013 and her experience reaches several different areas, providing architectural design for residential, commercial and scientific projects. New Habitat Architecture & Design is a multi-disciplined firm, focusing on sustainable design through the adoption of passive house principles. The firm provides complete services from land surveying, site planning, and civil engineering to architecture and including passive house design and deep energy retrofit renovations. Some of the recent projects designed by New Habitat include a 5,000 sf Passive House under construction in Lloyd Neck, with goals to achieve Net Zero status.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    On-DemandJuly 21, 2017
    Jason Morosko

    Speakers

    Jason Morosko

    UltimateAir, Inc.

    Vice President of Engineering with UltimateAir, Inc.
    Mr. Morosko is a vice president with UltimateAir, a research, design, and manufacturing company of leading technology air-to-air heat exchangers. Mr. Morosko is a 12-year veteran in this field, and he holds bachelors and masters degrees in Heat Transfer Engineering. He became a certified Passive House consultant, and has taught the curriculum to become a certified Passive House consultant. Mr. Morosko has built his own Passive House duplex, and he has consulted on various Passive House projects in the particular areas of mechanical systems, shell design, and ventilation.


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    SeminarApril 27, 2016
    Darren Macri

    Speakers

    Darren Macri

    Bleu Nest

    CEO and Founder of Bleu Nest; Certified Passive House Consultant & Tradesperson, LEED AP and Intus High Performance Windows Rep.
    Over the last decade, Mr. Macri has been homebuilding and renovating projects consisting of multi-family condo conversions and single family townhouses. He is the proud builder of New Jersey’s First Certified Passive House at 0.29 AHCn50. Mr. Macri was selected to share his Passive House knowledge and hands-on experience as a presenter at the North American Passive House Conference in Vancouver just last year. He has also taught numerous continuing education classes and Passive House 101 Seminars. Bleu Nest seeks liberate people from the ‘average home building standard’ by injecting High Performance Passive House know-how into their projects and out into the world so that we may all MAKE AVERAGE THE ENEMY and BUILD BETTER.  
     


    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    Passive House: Planning and Design Seminar

    SeminarMarch 2, 2018
    Glenn Hooper + 2 Other Speakers

    Speakers

    Glenn Hooper

    Residential Energy Conservation

    Glenn Hooper is the owner of Residential Energy Conservation, located in Suffolk County, New York. He has been certified by the Building Performance Institute as a building analyst, shell/envelope professional and heating professional. Mr. Hooper currently is an active HERS Rater. He has been certified by Snell as a Level I certified Thermographer. Mr. Hooper has also been a past RESNET rater trainer and quality assurance designee. He is a Passive House rater, DOE – qualified home assessor, and NYS trainer for RHVAC Manual J 8th Edition with Training for the Trades. Mr. Hooper’s company won DOE Century Club Awards in 2010, 2011, and 2012 for completing over 100 home performance projects per year. He also sat on the board for the Long Island and NYS Building Performance Contractors Association and was a board member for the North East HERS Raters Association as the QA chairperson. Since 2006, Mr. Hooper has consulted on hundreds of homes in the tri-state area for architects, builders and homeowners and has worked extensively in trying to educate the industry in all areas of building science.

    Anthony Musso

    Anthony J. Musso, Architect

    Anthony Musso founded the firm of Anthony J. Musso, Architect, in 1980. Since then the firm has provided architectural design, building performance and sustainable design, interior design, landscape design, and graphic design in projects on Long Island and in Metropolitan New York, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Bahamas. The firm’s client base is predominantly the custom residential market, although its work has also included the areas of restaurant design, commercial office buildings, country club facilities, school design, medical office projects and research facilities. The office is a full service firm, encompassing architectural design, building performance and sustainable design, planning, structural mechanical engineering, site planning, landscape design and interior design. The goals of the firm are to achieve a “near zero” energy sustainable building design. The combination of architecture, interior design and landscape design as one discipline to create a unified design solution has been the office doctrine. Mr. Musso is the sole proprietor with supporting part time/freelance architects and interior designers. He is licensed to practice architecture in New York, Virginia and New Jersey.

    Daniella Ravn

    New Habitat Architecture & Design, P.C.

    Daniella Ravn is a licensed architect in New York State and Brazil, and is founder of New Habitat Architecture & Design, P.C. She is a certified Passive House consultant since 2013 and her experience reaches several different areas, providing architectural design for residential, commercial and scientific projects. New Habitat Architecture & Design is a multi-disciplined firm, focusing on sustainable design through the adoption of passive house principles. The firm provides complete services from land surveying, site planning, and civil engineering to architecture and including passive house design and deep energy retrofit renovations. Some of the recent projects designed by New Habitat include a 5,000 sf Passive House under construction in Lloyd Neck, with goals to achieve Net Zero status.