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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.

Jennifer Books, AIA, CPHC, NCARB, is a licensed architect in Minnesota and Wisconsin, specializing in the design of highly- efficient, healthy and cost-effective sustainable buildings. She is a founding member and principal with Quantum Architects LLC and owner of Architecturally FIT LLC. Quantum Architects provides building owners and developers highly innovative performance-based architectural design services, crafting buildings that reduce heating, cooling and energy consumption by 70-120 percent. With added solar photovoltaic energy systems, these are positive cash flow buildings.

Rolf Jacobson, CPHC, LEED AP, is a research fellow at the Center for Sustainable Building Research. He recently rejoined the CSBR after working with the NorthernSTAR Building America research team. Mr. Jacobson brings a strong interest in building science, particularly in the areas of residential energy efficiency, building assemblies, and moisture performance. In 2010, he traveled to Norway on a Fulbright fellowship to study the building science of Passive House envelopes optimized for cold climates. While there, he used energy and moisture modeling tools such as WUFI and THERM to investigate and evaluate a wide range of residential building assemblies. More recently, he has helped conduct research on a variety of residential energy efficiency and building enclosure topics such as an in-situ study of residential ground source heat pumps and insulation retrofit approaches for basements.

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.

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.

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.

Prairie Design Build
David has been a passionate building scientist and project manager at Prairie Design Build for six years. He has an International Business degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, along with a master’s degree in Building Science from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He has also been professionally trained by the Passive House Institute of the United States as a Certified Passive House Consultant, and Certified Passive House Builder. David has been working in the construction world for the past 12 years in a wide range of areas, including pre-construction planning and estimating, energy modeling and construction detailing, in the field installation of super-insulated envelope systems, heating/cooling and ventilation systems, project management and client relationship building. He is especially proud of constructing projects that are durable and comfortable, that will have a low environmental impact, and that will have a positive long-lasting impact on the building occupants’ health. David is excited that the building techniques used to achieve Passive House resiliency have become more cost-effective and believes that we will see greater market adoption moving forward.
 

THRIVE Building Solutions
Joe is a Certified Passive House Consultant and General Manager of Thrive Building Solutions. THRIVE provides consulting and product services for high performance and Passive House buildings in Kansas City. He has spent the last 10 years focused on reducing the environmental impact of our built environment. He has a master’s degree in Environmental Planning from the University of Kansas.

Prairie Design Build
David is a third-generation builder, entrepreneur, construction and building science enthusiast. He believes that the construction industry is going through a revolution and is proud to be a part of it. He has built a team with expertise on several innovative designs, construction methods and products that clients will benefit from for generations to come. David’s team has built four Passive Houses and has two underway which will be certified with PHIUS. The team’s work has won several local awards, and the business has been recognized as top 25 under 25 employees in Kansas City. He is a Certified Passive House Consultant and a member of the HEMP mentoring program.

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.

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.

Principal at Essential Habitat Architecture, San Anselmo, CAMr. Irwin has worked in the construction industry for over 20 years. He has a degree in physics and management from Claremont McKenna College with additional studies in engineering and architecture at Harvey Mudd College and UC Berkeley, and an extensive background in software development. Mr. Irwin recognized the potential of Passive House immediately and was one of the first Passive House consultants certified in the US, as well as a founding board member of Passive House California and the Passive House Alliance, US (PHAUS). He was subsequently trained by the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt, Germany as a Passive House project certifier. Mr. Irwin is actively involved in Passive House advocacy, promotion and education. In addition to project-based work, he advises government agencies on energy policy and lectures regularly. He is a USGBC LEED AP, a Build It Green Certified Green Building Professional, and a licensed architect and licensed general contractor in the state of California.

Smita Chandra Thomas is the founder and principal at Energy Shrink, a consulting practice focused on high-performance buildings. Dedicated to enabling energy efficiency in buildings through building science, Smita has more than two decades of experience performing and managing techno-economic for path breaking green buildings. Ms. Thomas is the instructor of the course Decarbonizing Buildings at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She has served as a green building consultant to the World Bank Group for six years. Ms. Thomas is a published author, blogger, and speaker. Ms. Thomas has a master’s degree in building science and has been certified as LEED AP and CPHC.

Ms. White has been with Phius since 2012. Ms. White led the building certification review team for seven years and is an instructor for Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC®) training and WUFI® Passive energy modeling software training. She holds a degree in Environmental Sustainability with a minor in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Master’s in Energy Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms. White has a strong understanding of high-performance building design and how this is integral to the transition to a renewable energy grid. Her Masters’ thesis posed the question “What do Net Zero Buildings Cost the Grid?”, combining the concepts behind how building loads are shaped, how design techniques can alter that shape, and how that ultimately impacts the electricity generation resources needed to meet the load – all while considering the shift to more intermittent, renewable energy resources. Ultimately, this research concludes that energy conservation and demand response in buildings is a critical up-front investment to facilitate this transition.

Principal Architect, Certified Passive House Consultant, Brach Design Architecture, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mr. Brach started working in the construction industry in 1994 as a grunt worker (“carpenter’s helper”) and worked for a total of six years on residential building sites as a framer, roofer, finish carpenter and cabinet maker/installer for new construction and renovation projects in Colorado, Wisconsin, Chicago, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Mr. Brach has worked at architecture firms in Chicago, San Francisco and Minneapolis and he has owned an architecture firm in Salt Lake City since 2005. He designed and built the first Certified Passive Building west of the Mississippi River (the 3rd in North America) in Millcreek in 2009. Mr. Brach has since completed five certified passive projects and has three pre-certified projects currently under construction. He is a former instructor for The Passive House Institute U.S. (PHIUS) and a national expert in residential energy efficiency, zero energy design and passive design and construction.

Founder of Horizon Architecture in Iowa City, IA
Mr. Nolan is a native of West Virginia and attended the United States Air Force Academy where he earned a bachelor of science degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He served for more than 10 years as a pilot in both the F-16 and T-38 in assignments across the globe including combat missions as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Seeking a challenge that would meld his experience, technical expertise and passion for design, Mr. Nolan received a master of architecture degree from Virginia Tech. He earned his architect registration in Fall of 2012, just over two years after completing his degree.
Prior to founding Horizon Architecture, Mr. Nolan practiced architecture in a variety of firms, gaining extensive experience in a broad variety of projects. Projects include modernization to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC; the Moss Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech; and Gateway Ticketing Systems Global Headquarters in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Nolan founded Horizon Architecture to continue his mission of bringing thoughtful design and an unparalleled experience to his clients.
Horizon Architecture specializes in high-performance residential design. Mr. Nolan participated as an architect in the design of the Passive Aggressive House and Shafer Passive House, both in Wilton, Iowa. Horizon Architecture is currently designing and serving as a certified Passive House consultant for a new residence in Norwalk, IA.

Imagine Energy, LLC
Mr. Cohen founded Imagine Energy in 2003 to “change the way people think about and use energy.” An aerospace engineer by training, he brings an engineering approach to provide better comfort, indoor air quality, and energy use in people’s homes and businesses. Mr. Cohen offers knowledge in building science and energy efficiency, solar PV, solar thermal, wind energy, heat pumps (including geothermal), off-grid systems, and other energy technologies. He has served as a test engineer at Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, California and at the National Wind Technology Center in Boulder, Colorado. He has been an instructor at Oregon institute of Technology’s renewable energy engineering program, teaching practical PV design and installation, as well as serving as chair of OIT’s Industry Advisory Committee. He helped develop the Home Performance Contractor’s Guild and was instrumental in developing policy for Clean Energy Works Oregon program, the Oregon Solar Energy Code, and permitting of solar installations on standing-seam metal roofs without roof penetrations.

Registered architect & Certified Passive House Consultant
Ms. Correa has over ten years of experience in design and construction. Her CPHC background has inspired her to focus on the fundamentals of building science for high performance buildings and how to integrate that into design the design process. She brings practical experience from some of the largest cities in North America including New York and Chicago. Ms. Correa has worked on a variety of projects ranging from light rail stations and multi-family apartment buildings to university campus buildings.

475 High Performance Building Supply
Mr. Nimmo graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a degree in International Politics in 2008. Since then, Mr. Nimmo has had a focus on sustainability and energy conservation working for Greenpeace as a canvasser on busy Seattle streets, as a project manager for a commercial LED lighting rebate program, and most recently working on regional energy efficiency and indoor air quality studies in the Northwest. He is a certified building analyst through the Build­ing Performance Institute and has over five years of commercial and residential energy auditing experience. He also just completed the training to become a certified Passive House tradesperson. At 475 Mr. Nimmo assists with technical guidance and support to help clients build to Passive House levels of performance. Mr. Nimmo loves connecting with the natural world via gardening, hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, skiing, surfing, stargazing, and swimming in chilly alpinelakes.

Mr. Vierthaler has been involved in multifamily real estate for 25 years. He has long provided turnkey services for the acquisition and repositioning of multifamily properties, for both himself and the partnerships that he has worked for or been involved in. Mr. Vierthaler bachelor’s degree in Construction Management gives him the unique ability to undertake complicated projects with a high degree of confidence resulting in a successful outcome. He is an active investor in many clean technology companies and is a member of Element8, a clean technology and sustainability angel investor group. He has assisted many companies in this space with their “go to market” strategies.

First Lamp Architecture
Born into a family of draftsmen, tradesmen, and carpenters, Mr. Witt represents the fifth generation in his family that has earned a living through the design and construction of residential architecture. He began by building homes during summers in high school, and later his architectural education at Texas Tech taught him to combine the acts of drawing and building in order to deepen the creative and functional integrity of a home. Since co-founding First Lamp in 2009, he has implemented an increasing degree of high-performance details, materials, and construction practices, the most recent of which is a home that is pending PHIUS certification in Seattle, WA.

K&L Gates LLP, PittsburghMs. Altman helps clients properly structure contracts in ways that foster long-term, positive commercial relationships, whether through subscription agreements, licensing, strategic alliances, or outsourcing transactions. In addition to assisting clients with IT and business process outsourcing activities, Ms. Altman has negotiated commercial contracts across the breadth of global supply chain networks, from manufacturing to distribution and retail, and has supported the commercial launch of numerous cloud-based services. She has also negotiated licenses of intellectual property rights in the software, IoT, FinTech, data analytics, artificial intelligence, medical device, and biotechnology industries. She addresses privacy and data protection in commercial contracts, including many transactions in the financial services and healthcare industries. Ms. Altman is a frequent lecturer on commercial and technology issues affecting companies on the edge of tomorrow.

K&L Gates LLP, Pittsburgh
Mr. Capriotti focuses his practice on intellectual property law, primarily in the preparation, prosecution, and litigation of high technology patents, trademarks, and copyrights. He also counsels clients on intellectual property strategy, portfolio development, and transactional matters. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Capriotti held various positions as a patent agent and as an electronics design engineer where he designed microprocessor embedded systems including telecommunication devices, sensors, and instruments for various industries including energy measurement and distribution systems.

K&L Gates LLP, Pittsburgh
Mr. Haggerson’s patent procurement practice includes preparing and prosecuting patent applications for a range of technologies including surgical cutters/staplers, ultrasonic surgical instruments, electrosurgical instruments, digital medicine, ingestible sensors, software and computer systems, artificial intelligence, and autonomous vehicles. Mr. Haggerson also has experience in post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, including preparing inter partes review petitions targeting patents in various technical fields, including autonomous vehicles and software. Mr. Haggerson also has experience counseling clients on freedom to operate and patent invalidity issues involved in surgical techniques and other technological fields. He has a background in biomedical engineering and focuses his practice on patent procurement and portfolio management.

K&L Gates LLP, Pittsburgh
Ms. Murray has extensive experience in patent preparation and prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for both utility and design applications. She participates in all aspects of the patent procurement process including obtaining and reviewing invention disclosures, performing patentability searches, drafting applications, preparing filings including responses to office actions, and interviewing examiners. Ms. Murray’s practice also involves patent invalidity, clearance, and freedom-to-operate analyses; due diligence studies; and drafting substantive filings for post-grant procedures such as petitions for inter partes review. In addition, Ms. Murray works on trademark portfolio development and maintenance. She has extensive experience preparing and prosecuting trademark applications.

K&L Gates LLP, Pittsburgh
Mr. Sovesky’s practice includes all aspects of intellectual property law relating to procurement, licensing, clearance, enforcement, management, and counseling. Mr. Sovesky is experienced with representation of companies of varying sizes, including fortune 100 companies and fledgling startups. Examples of Mr. Sovesky’s experience include procurement and management of patent portfolios, technology roadmap counseling, white space guidance, innovation evaluation, and freedom-to-operate analyses. Mr. Sovesky’s technical concentration is in the chemical, biotech, materials science, and mechanical areas. Examples of his technical concentration include 3D printing, metallurgy, polymers, polymerization coatings, enzymology, hydrocarbon processing, catalysis, and photovoltaic cells.

K&L Gates LLP, PittsburghMr. Tanglen practices commercial litigation, with an emphasis on complex insurance coverage matters. His experience representing insurance policyholders includes mass tort product liability matters, intellectual property claims, and directors and officers (D&O) coverage, among many other types of insurance-related representations. His litigation experience includes taking the depositions of insurers’ corporate designees and drafting numerous critical court filings, including motions for summary judgment, appellate briefs, motions to compel discovery, and declaratory judgment complaints.