E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: If you’re a professional in the building industry of any kind and you aren’t following Christine Williamson on Instagram - you’re missing out on a great education - and an equally awesome person. @buildingsciencefightclub I had so much fun talking with Christine about buildings, failures, durability, architecture & architects and our own personal projects that I had to cut it into 2 sessions. So here is part two where we dive a little bit deeper into some of the statistics we use when measuring the number of women in the profession, and how that data may not be giving us the answers we really want. We share some books and resources we love. And just when you think we’re done talking, there’s a smidgeon more! I like to talk, sometimes too much, but i’ve thoroughly enjoyed the laid back chats with podcast guests over the last two seasons. I hope it’s clear that I have just as many questions as I have answers - and it’s ALWAYS okay to ask questions! Big thanks again to Christine for sharing her expertise, but also for just sharing a little bit of what makes her the awesome person she is! Until next time - Stay Nerdy!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: If you’re a professional in the building industry of any kind and you aren’t following Christine Williamson on Instagram - you’re missing out on a great education - and an equally awesome person. @buildingsciencefightclub I had so much fun talking with Christine about buildings, failures, durability, architecture & architects and our own personal projects that I had to cut it into 2 sessions. So enjoy part 1 this week and tune back in for part 2 next week.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: It’s become a bit of a joke, only it’s not really. When I am thinking through a project and I have a questions, I ask #buildingsciencemike. So, if you haven’t had enough of us yet, tune in this week as our concerned co-host Travis gets to ask the hard hitting questions about cellulose in a wall system specific to his location - Climate Zone 4 - Kansas City. He brings up a lot of great questions, everything from recycling wall insulation, planning for failure, and moisture laden walls. There are some other great nuggets in this episode, because as you already know, when you get a couple of building science enthusiasts together, we can get derailed and in the weeds. So Cheers to some more BS

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: You guys know him as the man with the epic beard, the building science champion, but he’s just an all around great guy! It’s always a pleasure to talk with Ben. I’ve been meaning to have him on for weeks. You may have caught him on The BS and Beer Show or doing a webinar on double stud walls over at Fine Homebuilding. But this was just a chance to sit down with another building science enthusiast and talk shop! Enjoy - links to BS & Beer Show and FHB Expert sessions in the show notes!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Mike at Dream Home Building and Design, @dreamhomebend about Aerobarrier. I happened to mention I didn’t know much about it and he willingly came on to talk about his experience. But Mike is also a design/builder. So after joining us for a BS+Beer Show event recently, he reached out to talk more about building and building science. It’s awesome to have great conversations with like minded individuals! Thanks Mike for talking with me for awhile. I hope you all enjoy our chat.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: It’s small world when someone living on the west coast, grew up in Maine, and is married to someone who grew up where I did in PA. In this era of connection, i’m loving the dialog. Darrell Brann, born and raised in Maine, moved to a pristine part of Oregon where he continues to practice small town resiliency including building science, helping your neighbor, buy local, and being a part of a thriving community.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: This week I’m joined by Jake Littman with Seal Tight Energy Solutions in Rhode Island. After hearing Mike on the podcast talking about Aerobarrier and me mentioning that I didn’t know anyone in New England doing this technology, I got a message from Jake! So excited to have him on the podcast to talk more about this technology and share his experience with installing Aerobarrier in our climate.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: I had the opportunity to talk to Matt Blomquist out in Taylorville Illinois this week. And this is a long episode, so it’s good that hopefully you are home with some time to listen, or on a job site by yourself because it was a pleasure talking with him and hearing his enthusiasm and passion for teaching his students how to build a better house and how to get excited about the trades! This is oh so important right now, Enjoy!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: I had the opportunity to talk to Matt Blomquist out in Taylorville Illinois this week. During our discussion he talked highly of all of his students. But he really caught my attention when he said he had one female student in his class and that she was a rockstar. That immediately got my attention and I asked him if it would be okay to record a podcast with her as well. She’s sharp, she’s funny, she’s fearless and we all have a lot to learn from her!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: This week the podcast hits close to home as fellow guest Randy does a lot of energy consulting. The last time the economy tanked, it was considered “gainfully unemployed” to be an architect. So I spent years training and educating myself on building science and doing a little bit of design. Now, i’m a building science junky and I’m doing a lot more design and very little energy auditing. It’s almost a treat when I get to throw my blower door in my truck and take it to a jobsite. Randy is in Minnesota doing energy auditing and building. It was a pleasure to have him on talking about their very cold zone 7 climate and things that he sees on the regular in their areas. PS. I apologize in advance for the couple barks you here. I tried to edit out my fur kid everywhere that I could. He’s getting old, he doesn’t understand being quiet during recordings. Today’s podcast is well worth the listen! Thanks for tuning in.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Mike Ardeljan from Dream Home Building & Design LLC in Oregon this week. He is a high performance home builder and an AeroBarrier technician/supplier. Because his background is in high performance building, I thought this would be the best way to learn more about this new technology and I was not disappointed! Send your comments and questions, I'm happy to have Mike on again - or reach out directly to him - contact info in the show notes!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: Moving on a little bit from Climate, but still talking building science with with individuals outside of the state of Maine. Today I had the opportunity to chat with Jack Rosebery, a fellow architect, who practices in Long Island New York. I was very excited to hear what he had to say about working for Habitat for Humanity in his area. One thing I took away though, was that 90% of Long Island is built out - so where do they go next? Tune in to hear what he had to say about building in Climate Zone 4A with some unique attributes to Long Island.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off February talking about Climate. What could be better - it’s the worst weather month in all of Maine - but it’s a reminder - if we do nothing - Maine will have Virginia’s climate in 2050. What will it be like to have warm waters and no snow? How will that affect our eco-systems? This week I had the pleasure of talking with another architect, Betty Reyes, who practices in Florida. Maybe it’s this cold weather, or the fact that people are flocking to Florida in droves, but Florida’s climate is fascinating to me. It’s so completely different then Maine. They have so much moisture, cooling not heating, hurricanes, and a significantly higher water table. It was a pleasure talking to Betty I learned so much about her climate zone and their approach to building better in Florida.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off February talking about Climate. What could be better - it’s the worst weather month in all of Maine - but it’s a reminder - if we do nothing - Maine will have Virginia’s climate in 2050. What will it be like to have warm waters and no snow? How will that affect our eco-systems? This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lance Cayko of F9 Productions in Colorado. It’s amazing how parts of their state touch Texas and parts are 8000 feet above sea level. While we are trying to convince people to build super insulated building structures, the are wrestling with 300 days of sunshine and the deterioration of materials + lack of water. Fascinating to hear how other people deal with their specific climate zones! Enjoy

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off February talking about Climate. What could be better - it’s the worst weather month in all of Maine - but it’s a reminder - if we do nothing - Maine will have Virginia’s climate in 2050. What will it be like to have warm waters and no snow? How will that affect our eco-systems? This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Travis Brungardt of Catalyst Construction in KC to talk a little bit about their climate. They get cold and wet + warm and wet. Interesting! So here’s a little bit more about their philosophy and building in their climate!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off February talking about Climate. What could be better - it’s the worst weather month in all of Maine - but it’s a reminder - if we do nothing - Maine will have Virginia’s climate in 2050. What will it be like to have warm waters and no snow? How will that affect our eco-systems? I don’t have the answers to that - but I do know a little bit about designing high performance homes for cold climate. And since we still have a cold climate, and we’d like to keep it that way, let’s talk a little bit more about that! Climate Zone 6 - Cold Climates

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off 2020 talking about “The Pretty (damn) Good House” I firmly believe we should be building the most energy efficient buildings possible. We should be improving our buildings until it becomes economically unfeasible to do more. We need to renovate what we have, improve density levels, and only build the very best in efficient buildings to make up for what we don’t have. The environment and our pockets can’t handle all this bad building! January has been a really fun month and this session on Economics with Mike was a great discussion! Thanks for joining us!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off 2020 talking about “The Pretty (damn) Good House” I firmly believe we should be building the most energy efficient buildings possible. We should be improving our buildings until it becomes economically unfeasible to do more. We need to renovate what we have, improve density levels, and only build the very best in efficient buildings to make up for what we don’t have. The environment and our pockets can’t handle all this bad building! So I hope you’ll join me this season on the podcast as I talk about things we should know when building. Thanks for tuning in - let’s kick it off with a high level discussion on Economics - and i’ll dive deeper into the subject over the month of January.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off 2020 talking about “The Pretty (damn) Good House” I firmly believe we should be building the most energy efficient buildings possible. We should be improving our buildings until it becomes economically unfeasible to do more. We need to renovate what we have, improve density levels, and only build the very best in efficient buildings to make up for what we don’t have. The environment and our pockets can’t handle all this bad building! So I hope you’ll join me this season on the podcast as I talk about things we should know when building. Thanks for tuning in - let’s kick it off with a high level discussion on Economics - and i’ll dive deeper into the subject over the month of January.