BUILDTank / buildCAST Robby Schwarz

Sara Guterman is the CEO Green Builder Media, an avid outdoors person, and a leader of change and innovation in our construction industry.  Many have moved on from the term, “green building”. Sara has embraced it, is conscious of the potential for green washing, and has built a network of builders, consumers, suppliers and trades people that are reframing green building to include the totality of the construction industry.  I am so focused on house performance, “is it there and does it work”, So it was refreshing to be taken to a 10,000-foot level to learn more about ESG, carbon, and data driven Analytics that is helping to move our industry forward.



Sara Gutterman on LinkedIn

Green Builder Media

12 Minutes of concise information for you on Cold Climate Heat Pumps.



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Asa Foss is the program manager for the ENERGY STAR Nextgen Certified Homes program, which is the first federal new construction certification program focused on operational decarbonization.


The program requires that the base home be labeled under EnergyStar for new homes, and then install a climate specific heat pump for heating and cooling, a
hot water heating heat pump, an electric or induction cook top, and finally electric vehicle ready infrastructure.



Asa explains these programs and requirements and their new link to the Builder 45 L tax credit. He was a wealth
of information and clearly demonstrates how working within a building program can benefit builders and homeowners and help move the construction industry as a whole forward to more sustainable and resilient homes.


Asa Foss on LinkedIn

EnergyStar NextGen

EnergyStar for new homes

45 L Tax Credit

LEED certification for residential

Northeast Energy Efficient Partnership (NEEP) heat pump list

Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) heat Pump Water Heater

Alison Bailes has a PhD in Physics and tried academic life but found his true passion in building science while building his own house.  He has moved on and is now fully renovating his current house kind of in the same way that he moved on from home energy ratings, where I first met him, to concentrating on HVAC design. From the broad to the specific one might say. Applying building science through HVAC design led to this discussion on the buildCAST because I had the pleasure of hearing Allison speak at the Colorado Chapter of the ICC’s code education institute on all things heat pumps. We concentrated our discussion on heat pumps, and I know you will enjoy hearing it, but don’t forget that Allison also just published the newest addition to our collective building science library. A House Needs to Breathe...Or Does It?  An Introduction to Building Science.



Allison Bailes III, PhD on LinkedIn

Energy Vanguard and the Allisons Blog

Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships NEEP Cold Climate Heat Pump website

A House Needs to Breathe...Or Does It?  An Introduction to Building Science

SouthFace InstituteEnergy Vanguard on Instagram @energyvanguard

Emily Mottram often describes herself as a “little Nerdy” and as an architect that expresses itself in a focus on people and planet, through high performance design of residential buildings. Emily helped to define high performance construction, as one of the authors of the “Pretty Good House” book which states that the goal is a well thought-out, carefully crafted home, designed to maximize performance and comfort within a budget. Performance incorporates metrics like R-values and ACH50 numbers but is more about setting and achieving a goal for the performance of the house which in turn, is more about how it feels: comfort, safety, livability, beauty, healthy, efficient, and the team, science of building, and economics that are brought together to achieve the goal.



Emily Mottram on LinkedIn

Mottram Architecture

Emily’s Energy + Efficiency + Emily or E3 Podcast

The Pretty Good House website

Dr. Robert Tino Sonora 10 Minutes on the Economics affecting the building industry