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BUILDTank / buildCAST

At BuildTank, our mission is to use what we learn applying building science to affect meaningful change in the construction industry. The buildCAST is the next step. Through broad conversations, we learn something new from our guests’ story that could be the catalyst to take sustainable buildings to mainstream building. Concentrating on the quest"s “story” as much as on their expertise revealing a journey and key information that can help us attain our goal to move our industry forward and make high

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01:17:27

#22-2025 EBBA Summit opening session State of our...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/10/26

In 1982, a group of building professionals from around the world gathered in Pine Island, Minnesota for the first Energy & Environmental Building Alliance (EEBA) meetup with the goal, to develop criteria for the construction of what we now call high performance and sustainable homes. For over 40 years now (EEBA) has been a trusted resource for building science information and education in the construction industry. To serve the EBBA mission to advance the leading edge of building science

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00:56:46

#21-2025 Clay McCombe on State Licensing of HVAC...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/10/12

Clay McCombe is the heat pump Program Manager for the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) who servs 59 jurisdictions in the Denver metro area. Recently DRCOG was awarded a $200 million grant from the EPA aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants. Clays focus on heat pumps is based on beneficial electrification and improving the air quality in the Denver Metro area, but he has found himself deep into workforce development and introducing statewide

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01:00:06

#20-2025 Matt Brill founder of Bauen Build

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/09/29

Matt Brill is a builder, innovator, and advocate for sustainable living who carries on a legacy of four generations of craftsmanship starting in the 1930 with his great grandfather. Steeped in that tradition, Matt founded Bauen Build to bring Passive homes to Boulder and the Colorado Front Range. “Bauen” a German word, means “to build” or to construct out of wood, which is a nod to the passive house principals and attention to details that Matt has instilled in his company. Bauen’s ultra

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00:59:32

#19-2025 Ryan Meres and RESNET’s National Building...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/09/15

Ryan Meres Came to RESNET with decades of experience in energy policy, energy codes, and home energy performance after working for groups like the Institute for Market Transformation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, and Southface Energy Institute. He continues to focus on policy initiatives as a program specialist for RESENT but also spends much of his time understanding the impact that the RESNET’s National Building Registry data base can have on the

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01:02:45

#18-2025 - Sam Rashkin Reflections on Construction

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/09/02

Sam Rashkin was my first guest on the buildCAST and he graciously agreed to speak with me again. If you don’t know Sam personally, you probably know of Sam as he has presented hundreds, if not thousands, of workshops and seminars to the construction industry that continually is interested I what he has to say. After a long career as a licensed architect and serving on the national steering committees for the U.S. Green Building Councils (USGBC) LEED for Homes program as well as a number of other

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01:03:47

#17-2025 Brad Smith – City of Fort Collings Carbon...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/08/17

Brad Smith has now been with the City of Fort Collins Colorado for 9 years working with the building department, the municipal utility, and directly with builders and trade partners to ensure that homes built in the city meet the requirements of the Energy Code.He is continuing a tradition in Fort Collins of goal setting but more importantly measurement and data gathering to ensure that the city gets what it expects. Brad is leading thecodes segment of the cities trek to carbon neutrality by 2030

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01:01:06

#16-2025 Passive House with Baseline Design, Kim and...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/08/04

Kim and Juta Cinco are Baseline Design named after Baseline Road, a landmark road in Boulder County that marks the Earth's 40th parallel north. They took inspiration from this line of latitude for how rooted in place and foundational it is. The husband-and-wife team have recently designed and completed their first passive house in the Marshall Fire rebuild and are working on their second and third. I wanted to learn about the design process and how it may differ when striving to achieve passive

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01:02:05

#15 Aron Jones Big Dog Construction

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/07/20

Aron Jones is the Co-founder of Big Dog Construction in Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada.He started his career in the military which led him to become a construction technician and then ultimately a builder once his service ended. In Canada it is common to enter the trades through an organize apprenticeship program call Red Seal and although Aron was already building, he received his carpentry Red Seal in 2002. His experience with the Red Seal apprenticeship program instilled in Aron a desire to

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00:51:02

#14 -2025 Brent Davidson and the US Heat Pump Summit

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/07/07

I spoke with Brent Davidson, the Creator of the US heat Pump Summit which will be held in Worcester Massachusetts on November 18th and 19th of 2025 and again in September of 2026. Brent saw an opportunity to develop a niche conference that is gaining momentum alongside the push to electrify our homes. The aspirations of this summit have grown to not only tackling the technical side of air and water heat pumps but also the business opportunities that are arising quickly from the tremendous growth and

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01:08:08

#13 Fernando Pages Ruiz is a builder and author of...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/06/22

Over a 30-year career in construction, Fernando Ruiz has become a dedicated proponent of building innovations and their relationship with affordable housing. He is the author of Building an affordable house which became clear in our conversation is not the same as building a cheap or poorly performing house. Fernando’s fundamental goal is to use his understanding of the rules contained in building codes, science, and value engineering to break the norms of our traditional thinking, to build homes

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01:05:54

#12-2025 Beau Brown C&H Inspections & business...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/06/09

Beau Brown is the founder of C & H inspection, a family owned and operated home inspection company located in Salt Lake City Utah. Beau started his career in the construction industry with his father and grandfather at the age of 10, building houses and garages all through his teens and early 20’s. He then gained experience leading teams as a Chemical Technician conducting waste clean-ups with hazardous spill response teams. He went to school for a business degree, and you will see that

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00:58:35

#11-2025 Brian Shanks - Beezer Homes the 11th largest...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/05/26

Brian Shanks is the Manager of National Accounts and Governmental Affairs for Beazer Homes. Beazer is a production home building company based in Atlanta, Georgia. The company is the 11th largest homebuilder in the United States and now operates in 13 states.Brian’s construction career has been aligned with energy-efficient and performance building in the world of large production builders, and now he is part of the team at Beezer Homes that is continuing the home builder’s evolution from building

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00:58:28

#10-2025 Lisa Morey – Colorado Earth and Nova Terra

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/05/10

Lisa Morey is a professional engineer and architectural designer who starting building with adobe bricks while living and working in New Zealand in the early 2000’s. While there she worked with a design/build firm that constructed nearly 50 earth block homes that was the catalyst for her company Colorado Earth. Lisa is now a champion for earth block construction, not only how to make the earthen block and build the house, but also to understand how the science of thermal mass works. Lisa

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00:52:57

#9-2025 Sam Myers Building Scientist at Retrotec

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/04/27

How did Sam Myers become the building scientist at Retrotec? Find out in this episode of the BUILDTank / buildCAST. Like most of us, the industry found Sam and a passion for building science blossomed. Unlike most of us Sam has created and grown his position in the industry on the back of his passion for finding unique ways of educating everyone that he comes in contact with. During the COVID most of the industry’s conferences and tradeshows moved to online platforms. To keep providing the industry

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01:05:52

#8-2025 Steve Baden – A retrospective with RESNET’S...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/04/13

Thanks for listening to the buildCAST. In this episode we hear from Steve Baden, the founding Executive director of the Residential Energy Services Network or RESNET. RESNET is the governing body of the HERS home energy rating industry which was established in 1995 by the National Association of State Energy Officials, Energy Rated Homes of America, and the National Mortgage Industry Association to develop a national market for home energy rating systems and energy-efficient mortgages. I was in the

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00:58:43

#7-2025 Nicole Tysvaer (Tis-vare) and the Queen of...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/03/31

Thank you to Nicole Tysvaer Founder and CEO of Symbi Homes for being on the BUILDCast. Symbi Homes is a sustainable construction firm reinventing home building with an emphasis on wellness, energy-efficiency and technology. Symbi short for Symbiosis immediately got my thinking about building science, systems thinking, and the synergistic interactions that take place in construction of high performance homes. Symbi Homes has decided to follow the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home program specifications to

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01:02:41

#6 – 2025 Mike Collignon Green Builder Coalition and...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/03/16

We dove quickly into the Water Efficiency Rating Sore or WERS system with Mike Collignon Executive Director & Co Founder of the Green Builder Coalition. So quickly in fact that we did not have time to talk much about the other cool things the coalition is doing, so definitely check out their website in the show notes to find out how they are a uniting voice for sustainable home building especially for the custom builder community In short, WERS is a performance-based water efficiency program

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01:02:42

#5-2025 REDT Homes- Becoming a regional production...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/03/03

Vincent Deorio CEO, Mike Davidson Sales and Marketing, and Ben Walker Sr Architectural Manager at RedT homes, share what it’s taking to grow their company into a regional production builder that is offering LEED platinum homes. Their unique business model incorporates land acquisition, entitlement and design, architecture, and construction along with real estate-focused marketing and sales. Their focus on integrated design and thoughtful execution is helping them reimagine what sustainable

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00:55:51

#4- 2025 Stephen Kane and the SPAN Smart Electrical...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/02/16

Starting in tech, moving into solar, Stephen Kane found his home at SPAN where he is helping builders integrate smart electric load management to lower the cost of electrifying homes while giving homeowner’s a better user experience. Our conversation touched on both new construction and existing homes as the move toward electrification is touching both worlds. I have to say that I found our existing home conversation particularly interesting since I am on a glid path to electrification of my own

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01:01:47

3 -2025 Jacob Deva Racusin Co-Founder and Director of...

BUILDTank / buildCAST ·

2025/02/02

Jacob Deva Racusin, based in Vermont, is the Co-Founder and Director of Building Science and Sustainability with New Frameworks. He is also the lead researcher and BEAM Tool Co-Developer with Builders for Climate Action. As a builder, consultant, researcher, designer, and educator, Jacob has merged his passions for ecological stewardship, relationship to place, and social justice with building science, climate action, and sustainable design and building.Jacob Deva Racusin on LinkedIn New

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