Tony Grahame
Professor of Residential Building Technology, Yavapai College
Web site recommendations:
buildingscience.com - Building Science Corporation
buildingamerica.gov- Department of Energy's Building America Program
advancedenergy.org - Advanced Energy
healthhouse.org -The American Lung Association program
eeba.org -The Energy and Environmental Building Association

Conferences:
EEBA Excellence in Building Conference & Expo
Affordable Comfort
Houses That Work - workshops
NAHB - International Home Builder's Show
NAHB - Green Builder's conference - residential
RESNET - Building Performance conference

Industry Publications:
Builder's Guide to Hot - Dry & Mixed - Dry Climates (Building Science Press)
Green Building Guidelines - Meeting the Demand for Low - Energy, Resource - Efficient Homes (Sustainable Buildings Industry Council)
Canadian Home Builder's Association - Builder's Manual
Better Built Homes - video- Building Knowledge Inc.

Magazines and Newsletters:
Energy Design Update
Environmental Building News
Solplan Review
Home Energy
Eco Structures

Individuals that have influenced Tony the most in the building science world are:
Joe Lsiburek - Building Scientist/Engineer/Trainer
Betsy Petit - Architect/Consultant
John Tooley - Building Science Consultant/Trainer
Mark Laliberte - Building Science Consultant/Trainer
Peter Yost - Building Science Consultant/Trainer
Armin Rudd - Building Scientist/Engineer/Trainer
Pat Huelman - Building Scientist/Professor
John Straube - Building Scientist/Professor
Gord Cooke - Building Science Consultant/Trainer
Michael Uniacke - Energy Efficient Consultant/Professor

"Nine years ago I was introduced to the EEBA organization.  This organization first introduced me to applied building science principals and practices, and to the building science community. Consequently, I have learned from some of the most significant cutting-edge building scientists in the country.  I've taken what they have taught me and incorporated the building sciences into my Residential Building Technology curriculum.  Because of EEBA, and it's extensive network of building scientist, and environmentally conscientious architects, builders, engineers, manufacturers, educators, trainers, and many others associated with the construction industry, my students and I have benefited immensely.  Because of EEBA, and the people associated with EEBA, my students are well on their way to becoming future designers and builders of healthy, comfortable, durable, environmentally responsive houses, and leaders in their chosen fields. "

Frank Beasley, Town & Country Homes
The top three sources I get my building science /building performance information from would be (in no specific order), EEBA Conferences, Energy Design Update and Dr Joseph Lstiburek.

Why these? Joe Lstiburek was the first “Building Scientist” I met. I, as most people, met Joe when I was having problems with some buildings my company built. He is the person who helped create the person I became with regards to understanding high performance buildings.

Energy Design Update just seems to fit my needs. I respect the different approaches to problems they present and the rebuttals that follow. It isn't often you can read about the proposed solution to a building failure and get a contradicting opinion on the next page. It makes me think.

EEBA is the organization that fed me the resources when I needed them most. I attended my first conference in 1996. It happened to be in Minnesota and the weather was pretty rough. I had never met such a diverse group of people trying to figure out the same problems. I attend lots of different conferences but this is about the only place I know that I can learn as mush in the small groups that congregate at the end of the day as I did in the conference sessions. The reason for this is that this is a group of people who happen to be passionate about this building science stuff. You can't turn it off once you are hooked. The leaders of those early conferences took and interest in what builders were facing and allowed us to explain how things really worked in the building industry. They then helped us work through the problems and made us better. Joe Lstiburek was the one who invited me to that conference in 1996 and he has been paying for it ever since. I now call him and others I have met through EEBA to bounce off different ideas. The thing that really says it all is that they will still take my call.