EEBA Board

EEBA's Board of Directors is a body of elected or appointed building science professionals who jointly oversee and strategize the activities and operations of EEBA.

EEBA MISSION STATEMENT

To provide education and resources to transform the residential design, development, construction and remodeling industries to profitably deliver energy efficient and environmentally responsible buildings and communities.

Officers

President

Robert Broad
Pulte Homes | Las Vegas, NV
 Robert Broad is the Director of Purchasing for SoCal and Las Vegas Divisions. Mr. Broad has worked for Pulte for 14+ years in a variety of roles, including Customer Service, Construction Management, Building Science, Research and Development, Product Design, and Purchasing. Prior to joining Pulte's Las Vegas operations, Robert spent seven years with the Pulte Home Sciences division. As a founding member, he helped develop and patent innovative technology for production home building. Mr. Broad has degrees in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Construction Engineering. He has been an active participant in the DOE Building America Program, a committee member for BOCA, served on the committee for ICC-ES SIP Acceptance Criteria and the structural committee for the SNBO 2006 and 2009 ICC/IRC code adoption.

www.pulte.com

1st Vice President

CR Herro

Meritage Homes

Scottsdale, AZ

 C.R. Herro is the Vice President of Environmental Affairs for Meritage Homes. C.R. earned a Bachelors of Science at Arizona State University in Physical and Life Science, Masters in Environmental Policy from Governors State, and Doctorate in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.  CR is on the RESNet Strategic Positioning Task Force, Board of Directors for the Energy & Environmental Building Alliance, technical committee for the Leading Builders of America, and has been a speaker at the National Home Builders Association, Arizona State Department of Housing, Arizona Corporation Commission, the ASU School of Construction, Energy Star, Solar Power International, and Energy, Utility, and Environment Conference,

Meritage’s Extreme Energy Efficient Homes received the 2010 Pubby Award from Green Homebuilding Magazine for Community of the Year, and the National Association of Home Builders 2011 EnergyValue Housing Award and NAHB’s Research Center’s 2011 People’s Choice Award.

herro

www.meritagehomes.com

2nd Vice President

Mark Tilley

IBACOS, Inc.
Pittsburgh | PA
 Mark Tilley is the President of IBACOS, a homebuilding research and quality consulting company, and the Executive Director of the Best Practices Research Alliance (the Alliance), a community of forward-thinking builders collaborating with building science specialists and product and material suppliers to drive quality and performance in American homes.

Tilley

www.ibacos.com

Treasurer/Secretary

Ed Lindner

Whirlpool Corporation | Enumclaw, WA

 
 Ed Lindner (CGP) has been with Whirlpool for 19 years, starting in field sales. In 1997 he served on the task force that launched the Whirlpool Brand in China. Following this worked as a Merchandising Manager at our Whirlpool Corporate offices until 2000. He is currently the Contract Division Director in the North Pacific Division, responsible for sales in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. In addition to these duties Ed was recently assigned to represent Whirlpool within EEBA and NAHB nationally. Ed is member of the Build-It-Green Associates Committee, Built Green of King-Snohomish County. He has been married to Sue for 30 years they have one son Alex who is a sophomore at Western Washington University.

Lindner

www.whirlpool.com
Board Members

Don Stevens

Panasonic
Keyport, WA
 Don Stevens is the National Research and Development Manager for Panasonic Home and Environment Company headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey, whom he helped introduce the most energy efficient and quietest fans in North America in 1993. His responsibilities include all ventilation product R&D, national and state code development, and national standard development. Don was a private ventilation consultant, trainer, and speaker for nearly twenty years, working with such manufacturers as Panasonic, Fantech, American ALDES, Tamarack Technologies, and Honeywell in the area energy efficient ventilation product development and acceptance and the state, regional, and national codes and standards that affect them. Don has two BS degrees from the University of Washington and did his Masters work in Energy Planning at Antioch University. Prior to his work as a consultant, Don was the Executive Director of the Energy Business Association in Seattle.

www.panasonic.com/ventfans

Christine Barbour

Newport Ventures, Inc. | D.O.E. Builder's Challenge
Rockville | MD
 Christine Barbour, a senior consultant at Newport Ventures, Inc, has over 15 years experience in residential energy efficiency. She specializes in meeting facilitation, program development and management, strategic marketing and market research. Ms. Barbour is currently supporting Oak Ridge National Laboratories in the administration of the U.S. Department of Energy's Builders Challenge. This market transformation initiative is based on a decade of Building America R&D and is designed to galvanize builders to construct high performance homes (Net-Zero Energy Homes by 2030) while driving consumer demand.

www.newportventures.net

Bill Fay

Energy Efficient Code Coalition | EECC
Washington D.C.
 William Fay concurrently leads two broad-based national coalitions advocating for building energy efficiency:

• The Building Energy Efficient Codes Network (BEECN), which focuses on national initiatives before Congress, federal/state/local governments, the media and others; and

• The Energy Efficient Codes Coalition (EECC), which works within the ICC's national energy code development process and authored "The 30% Solution," which will employ available, "state-of-the-shelf" technologies to boost the 2012 energy efficiency codes for homes by 30%.

With over 28 years in the nation's capital, Fay has organized, managed, and led industry trade associations and national coalitions. He has a strong background in energy, environmental, transportation, tax and natural resource policy and regulation. His experience on Capitol Hill included working in both the US Senate and House of Representatives, with Members of Congress who served on the Senate Appropriations, Energy & Natural Resources, Environment & Public Works, and Finance Committees and the House Transportation & Infrastructure, Resources and Agriculture Committees.

thirtypercentsolution.com

Tom Hines

APS
Phoenix | AZ
 Tom Hines is a residential energy efficiency expert with more than 15 years of experience working with over 30 utilities nationwide. He holds a masters degree in Environmental Planning from Arizona State University. Since 1998, Mr. Hines has managed residential energy efficiency programs for Arizona Public Service Company (APS), based in Phoenix Arizona. In this position, Mr. Hines works closely with local builders and contractors to help provide information and education on energy efficient practices and building science principles. Mr. Hines promotes energy efficient heating/cooling contractors through the APS Qualified Contractor program, energy efficient lighting through the APS residential ENERGY STAR lighting program, and energy efficient homebuilders through the APS ENERGY STAR Homes program.

www.aps.com

Andy Oding

Reid's Heritage Group
Cambridge | Ontario
 Andrew Oding, Operations Manager for Reid's Heritage Homes, has been actively involved in spearheading Reid's Heritage Homes passionate approach to sustainable building and developing. From framing and finishing to job-site supervision, Andy has helped Reid's Heritage revolutionize the way they build and design homes. Applying High Performance Building techniques and fostering an environment of innovation and partnerships, Reid's Heritage has become the Industry Leader in high volume residential high performance: "Green Building".

www.heritagehomes.com

Brad Richardson

Christian Builders, Inc.
Rogers | MN
 Brad is president and co-owner of Christian Builders, A recognized leader in healthy and energy efficient home construction in the Minnesota market. During his 30 plus years at Christian Builders the company has transitioned to and implemented solid building science strategies. Brad co-directed the design and construction of a National Home Builders Association Research Centers gold award winning home in 1999. As a building company, Christian Builders embraces EEBA's basic core concepts and executes them in their daily construction processes, Healthy consumers are happy consumers!

www.christianbuilders.com

Daran Wastchak

DR Wastchak
Phoenix | AZ
 Daran Wastchak is the President of D.R. Wastchak, L.L.C., a firm based in Phoenix, Arizona, specializing in residential energy efficiency and building science consulting. He has been a key implementer of the EPA's ENERGY STAR for Homes program in the Phoenix market since 1996, first with the Del E. Webb School of Construction at Arizona State University, then with D.R. Wastchak, L.L.C since its founding in 1999.

wastchalk

www.drwastchak.com

Laura Dwyer

Dupont Building Innovations

Wilmington, DE

 Bio Coming Soon

 

www.dupont.com

Pat Adler

T.W. Lewis

Tempe, AZ

 Patrick Adler is the Vice President of Operations for the national award winning T.W. Lewis Company. T.W. Lewis is a private homebuilder that focuses on upper end production building in Phoenix, Arizona and was the 2009 NHQ Gold Award winner. Mr. Adler has worked in the homebuilding industry over 20 years and has achieved LEED AP certification from the Green Building Certification Institute and an MBA in business administration from the W.P. Carey School of Business. Mr. Adler is a registered civil engineer in several states and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering at Loyola Marymount University. Through Mr. Adler’s direction, T.W. Lewis has adopted EEBA’s building science approach to homebuilding and has even taken the unusual step for a production homebuilder of designing every home’s HVAC system based on the particular home’s solar orientation. T.W. Lewis builds Energy Star qualified homes in every one of their communities.

Adler

www.TWLewis.com

Lois Arena

Steven Winters Group

Norwalk, CT

Lois Arena possesses over 15 years experience in the building science field. She has extensive experience with new and existing residential buildings including on-site testing and diagnostics, design assistance and energy modeling. Awards presented to her clients include the New Millennium Builder Award and Gold Energy Value Housing Award from the NAHB. Lois has co-authored and presented training programs about energy efficient building practices to professionals in all sectors of the building industry. As a licensed remodeling contractor, she focused on an integrated systems approach to building incorporating both energy-efficient and green building technologies.

Lois is currently employed by Steven Winter Associates, Inc. where she works on the Department of Energy’s Building America program and conducts advanced systems research. She received her M.S. in engineering from the University of Colorado’s Building Science Program and holds Passive House, BPI and RESNET certifications.

 

arena

www.SWinter.com

Mike Mongeon

Habitat for Humanity

Atlanta,GA

 Mike Mongeon is the Sustainable Building Learning Specialist for Habitat for Humanity International’s Learning and Organizational Development Department in Atlanta.  Mike is responsible for facilitating the design and development of learning opportunities for the Partners in Sustainable Building effort.  This project is a five-year effort between HFHI and The Home Depot Foundation to provide funding and resources to help build 5,000 more energy-efficient and sustainable homes.
 
Before joining HFHI, Mike was a Healthy Home Consultant with MyGreenCottage, a nationwide builder of custom, environmentally-friendly homes.   He also served as Director of Marketing & Communications for the Georgia Conservancy.  Prior to entering the nonprofit world, Mike ran the knowledge management consulting group for two large U.S. software companies.

arenawww.habitat.org

Tom Wade

Artistic Homes

Albuquerque, NM

 Artistic Homes is New Mexico's premier builder of high performance homes. Family owned & operated, the Albuquerque, New Mexico company is an industry leader in new construction focusing on green design & sustainable building techniques. Since 1999, Artistic Homes' commitment to green building has resulted in a 100% tested & guaranteed high performance line of green homes!

www.artistichomes.com

Dave Bell

Environments for Living

Daytona Beach, FL

 The Environments For Living® program is an initiative of Masco Home Services, Inc., a Masco company. The program was launched in 2001, in response to a growing need for professional services to support regional and national home builders in applying building science and energy-efficient construction practices in the field.

www.mascohs.com

Gale Tedhams

Owens Corning
Toledo, OH

Gale Tedhams is the Director of Sustainability, Green Products and Communications, for Owen Corning. She is responsible for leading the company’s global sustainability strategy with a focus on the ongoing greening of the company’s product lines and for communication on Owens Corning’s commitment to sustainability for strategy integration and external information. Building science and accelerating energy efficiency in the built environment are core elements of Owens Corning’s commitment to sustainability.

Gale joined Owens Corning as an environmental engineer with a civil engineering degree from Michigan State University. She has held numerous leadership roles across several businesses and functional areas, including manufacturing leadership in both the United States and Europe and global diversity leadership. Before joining the sustainability organization, she was product and program manager in the Insulating Systems business for Owen Corning, where she was responsible for product quality, new development, packaging, marketing literature and application.

www.owenscorning.com
Advisory Members

Gord Cook

Advisor
Ontario | Canada
 As a professional engineer, trainer, author and industry consultant, Gord Cooke has been an effective and passionate educator and advocate for better building practices, improved indoor air quality and energy efficiency during the past two decades. Gord brings to his training the logic and integrity of a professional engineer and the passion of one committed to helping the residential construction industry build and sell better homes. Based on homeowner market research he has conducted, Gord has also pioneered new training programs designed to assist builders in the sales and marketing of higher performing, energy efficient homes – helping builders more effectively tell their story to customers and sell more homes.

Air Solutions, Inc.