E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 4: On this special addition of the podcast I had someone reach out to me with a question that we frequently get asked. First, what can be done to take a traditional or code built home to a PGH in a incremental way that makes sense for the budget. That’s a great PGH question as it relates directly to the fact that everyone has a budget, and our energy programs don’t always address that. But how does a homeowner know what choices should be made. That’s directly followed up by “Why should I hire a Design Pro” trying to help understand the value of hiring someone to help them through the process and make those wise decisions. Since it’s a common question, I thought, instead of a 30 minute call with the person submitting the request, I would get together 4 pros and we could hash out those details. Why it’s important, what is the value, and how that person has a direct impact on helping you narrow down the choices you should make when making any decision, let alone efficiency decisions to improve the health, safety, and durability as it relates to your home.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 4: On this episode, friend and colleague Kiley Jacques joins me to talk about how media is changing. We used to enjoy great stories and articles in print when magazines would show up in our mailbox. Even though there is still some print, media has really jumped into the digital age. First with blogs and articles, podcasts, webinars, and now with e-learning and virtual conferences. So I invited Kiley to come talk a little bit about what’s going on over at Taunton these days and where they are headed! Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 4: Kicking the year off on a strong note, this month’s podcast is a recap or possibly a just a glimpse at why we talk about, teach, train, and collaborate in the built environment. My guest is a colleague, friend, mentor, and all around great human. If you haven’t had the opportunity to connect with him in person or virtually, watch one of his trainings or talks, or enjoy our friendly banter on BS+Beer, make sure you look him up. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 4: Kicking the year off on a strong note, today’s podcast is all about women in construction. There are some amazing people in building & architecture and I hope those you find here become your inspiration, mentors, and collaborators. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3: As we move away from straight operational energy being the highlight of the building science world, I’m consumed by collecting knowledge about designing for deconstruction, recycling, first cost carbon, electrification, end of use, carbon storing, ventilation and health and many more important and demanding topics. To highlight some of that, I had the pleasure of talking with Erich Kruger of Deconstruction Works about deconstructing existing houses, what that means for our industry, education and diversity. This is an episode I’m particularly excited about, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Happy listening ~ Emily

Erich Kruger

Erich Kruger has been in the building trades since 1997 when he was teaching carpentry in Antigua, West Indies as part of the Peace Corp/Crisis Corps. In Vermont he has worked for several general contractors and on his own. In 2005 he founded the non-profit ReNew Building Materials & Salvage, and has consulted with, and later ran, the deconstruction program at Finger Lakes ReUse in Ithaca, New York . He holds a degree in Wildlife Management & Environmental Ethics (minor).

Erich is happiest when he is diverting building materials at a job-site in the company of other like-minded conscientious deconstructors, or on the wood floors of a local contra dance with his family. He lives in a straw bale home he built with ecological features, including solar electric, solar hot water, composting toilet, and masonry wood heater/oven.

https://www.deconstructionworks.com/

Deconstruction Works specializes in the salvage and reuse (green demolition) of houses, outbuildings, and commercial interiors in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts. Contractors and homeowners often lament the waste of perfectly good materials heading to the Dumpster every day. If you have a project large (whole house or commercial interior) or small (kitchens, baths, additions), why not let Deconstruction Works quote for the recycling and reuse of those building materials?

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E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3: We ALL know I’m a big nerd. So this week it was fun to geek out a little on the energy parts of what makes building science so much fun. If you’re looking to increase your knowledge or gain another certification check out this episode with Noah and what they have going on over at BER. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3: Highlighting another amazing woman in the field of architecture, I had the pleasure of talking with Katherine MacPhail about being a mom, architect, business owner, podcaster and sitting on the board of the newly formed ARDEMIS foundation for helping out other architects when unexpected events crop up.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3: Today, two women in construction that I respect immensely took over the podcast to ask me all their burning questions. And you know me, I love to talk, so we flipped the script a little bit today and I had a blast! I hope you give it a listen and a shout out to these women for sharing their journey and encouraging other women to do the same! Enjoy ~ Emily

Maine Passive House

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3: On this episode of the podcast, I had the pleasure of talking with a fellow architect and educator. He’s a PGH enthusiast, worked on Passive House and LEED projects, and recently went out on his own in Michigan. Always a pleasure to sit down with another architect and hear about their life and experiences. Enjoy ~ Emily

Connect with Kurt

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3: It’s always cool to me to catch up with Matt Blomquist in Taylorville Illinois to hear what he’s been up to with his students. Not only is he giving them a framework to build better projects in the future, he’s also go the ideal opportunity to evaluate how hard a particular task is and then change and try something new with a whole new group of students the following year. Hat’s off to Matt for everything he brings to that program. On today’s episode we talk about the house they are just wrapping up and what he will do differently next time. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3: On today’s podcast I finally had the pleasure of catching up with Peter Yost, the third member of the UnBuildit Podcast team. Teacher, trainer, researcher, consultant, resident building science nerd. It’s all fun and a little bit WTF ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3. I often talk to other professionals, both builders and designers alike, but I haven’t had a homeowner on the show in awhile and it was time. A truly great project has 3 legs to the stool, the design team, the construction team, and the ownership team. We take for granted that none of these projects would happen without some really great clients. So today I had the pleasure of speaking with Scott about what it’s like to be the Owner during the design and construction of a project.– Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 – Welcome to Part II of Mark’s World. If you didn't get enough of the inner workings of Mark's mind last week, here's a little big more for you! Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 – Welcome to Part I of Mark’s World. The podcast has become something I look forward to every week and I really hope you have been enjoying it. It’s an opportunity for me to talk to and swap stories with the other individuals in this community who are truly passionate about building, architecture, building science, and sharing. I know some episodes can get long. I recorded for two hours with Mark and he doesn’t like to cut or edit anything. So, I made this a two-part series, completely unedited, for you to hear what’s going on in Mark’s World. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 – We talk so often about teaching, training and how to improve both the relationship that we have with the trade industry and how to get people excited about learning about the industry and where they might fit. So, after the Wall System Sweet 16 competition, I couldn’t wait to have Connor Malloy on the podcast to talk more about it. Enjoy ~ Emily