Houses That Work™ EEBA Certified Trainers

EEBA selects its trainers based on their experience in the building industry, commitment to building performance education and ability to present the content in an easy to understand, interactive style. Trainers attend regular update training sessions to assure consistency in information presented, updates on technology & product advances and to review resource materials. To learn more about our trainers click on any one of the following:

Trainers Accreditations

Gord Cooke

 As a trainer, author and industry consultant, Gord 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 across North America. Gord brings to his training, his technical and mechanical background, 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 his homebuyer market research, Gord has pioneered a new training program designed to assist builders in marketing and selling their high performing, energy efficient homes by communicating their value to their customers. Gord's building science training curricula covers the gamut from creating and delivering basic and advanced building science principles through managing indoor air quality and HVAC system design, to an intensive technical sales and marketing workshop.

Justin Wilson

 Justin Wilson is President of Building Performance Solutions Inc., a Colorado based building science consulting firm. Justin specializes in advanced energy efficient building practices, high performance process integration and implementation, building durability analysis, mechanical systems design and integration, and job site inspections and trainings. Using his expertise and experience in environmental building materials and technologies, and building science principals, Justin develops educational curriculum and presents to developers, builders and industry professionals; these diverse audiences have included the US Green Building Council, Energy and Environmental Building Association's Building Solutions Conference, Built Green® Colorado, Big Builder, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and many others. Justin is currently one of the developers of the new EEBA Houses That Work curriculum.

Tony Grahame

Mark Laliberte

 Mark teaches, consults and speaks to over 7,000 builders, architects and consumers each year. His primary focus is on energy efficient construction practices and systems approach building. Mark presents at EEBA, Affordable Comfort, NAHB, Healthy Indoor Environments Conference, Andersen Window Corp. and The American Thoracic National Conferences. Topics include: airtight construction practices and techniques, indoor air quality problems and solutions, ventilation system design, building pressure regimes, improving building durability, and marketing high performance homes and buildings. Areas of Expertise: Energy efficient construction practices and systems approach building. Residential and light commercial construction. Sizing and installation of ventilation systems. Moisture and vapor flow control methods. Various insulation systems and site verification of building performance. Optimizing mechanical systems and integrating system variations. Marketing the performance built home.

Joe Lstiburek

 JOSEPH LSTIBUREK is a principal of Building Science Corporation and a former custom homebuilder. He is internationally recognized as an authority on moisture related building envelope problems and indoor air quality. He is the developer of ADA (the Air Drywall Approach to air barriers) and the author of the U.S. DOE Handbook on Moisture Control as well as the special contributor to the EPA guidance document on Mitigating Indoor Air Quality problems in commercial buildings. He is an expert in the area of rain penetration, air barriers, vapor barriers, air quality, durability, and construction technology. He is a building science researcher affiliated with the Centre for Building Science, University of Toronto and a former national Director of Research of the Housing and Urban Development Association of Canada.

Tex McLeod

 With over 30 years in housing and energy conservation Tex has evolved into one of North America's leading presenters on energy, housing and indoor air quality. Tex delivers training across Canada, into the US and has traveled on behalf of CMHC's International Training Team to South America, Europe and China. Tex is a past board member of EEBA, the Energy and Environmental Buildings Association and has presented at many of their conferences as well as Affordable Comfort – other US workshop locations include: Colorado, Alaska, North Carolina, Nevada, California, Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona. In addition to delivering training, Tex has also worked to develop training materials for a variety of clients including: CMHC, Ontario Hydro, SAWDAC, NRCan, Atlantic Homebuilders Training Board and Ontario First Nations Technical Services – including a hands-on ventilation workshop for first nations builders. Tex was also part of the original team that put together the both the CMHC and the EEBA IAQ workshops.

Betsy Petit

 Betsy Pettit. A.I.A. is the president of Building Science Corporation and is a registered architect with over 25 years of professional experience. She is currently the project manager for Building Science Consortium's Building America project, involving system design for over 2,000 high performance houses nationwide. Prior to joining Building Science Corporation, she was a project architect/project manager for several Boston architectural firms, and has been responsible for the design of residential and commercial building, communities, and developments.

Duncan Prahl

 As Research Project Manager, Duncan is researching the widespread local implementation of higher performance homes using Building America research results, in conjunction with home energy rating providers and green building programs. This research is focused on the process related barriers that are institutionalized in most builders' organizations, with the goal of creating new process models for builders in five key areas: integrated design process; construction documents and purchasing processes; trade skill training, certification, and verification; building performance, and financial and operational measurement systems; and marketing and consumer education.

John Tooley

 John Tooley is one of the nation's most respected innovators in the area of building science technology. Because of his visionary ideas, pioneering spirit, and many achievements, his work has received numerous industry awards. Recipient of Florida's Governors' Energy Award, Tooley has also been honored with the Energy Efficient Building Association's coveted Joule Award for his innovative contributions to the building industry. Florida Power and Light distinguished Tooley for his valuable contributions to its Duct Leakage Program, which received the National Energy Award. He has received numerous commendations and has also been recognized for his participation in program design and training for some of the largest utilities and building programs in the nation.