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BUILDTank / buildCAST — 155 episodes

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#10-2026 3rd Party Inspection with Rich Truitt Building official Harford County Maryland Part 2

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#9-2026 Implementing the IECC with Rich Truitt Building official Harford County Maryland Part 1

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#8-2026 Don Worthington and the LOWTILITY Energy Efficient and Improvement Mortgages

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#7-2026 Kelly Davies Grace – The Nontoxic Architect on Instagram

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#6-2026 – Adam Berry on Colorado’s New State Wide Energy Code

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#5- 2026 David Heslam Executive Director Earth Advantage

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#4-2026 Grahm Davis - Senior Building Performance Specialist with IBACOS

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#3-2026 Chris Laumer-Giddens LG2 Architects - Zero Air Leakage?

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#2-2026 Rachel Wagner is the Impact Driver at Just Housing

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#1-2026 Clint Shireman- Manager of Training and Certifications Knauf Insulation

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#26-2025 Alex Meaney - Mean HVAC Consulting and Design Part 2

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#25-2025 Alex Meaney - Mean HVAC Consulting and Design

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#24-2025 Joshua Salinger Founder and CEO Birds mouth Design Build

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#23-2025 - Ventilation with Patrick Nielsen Global Technical Products Manager Broan Nutone

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#22-2025 EBBA Summit opening session State of our industry: Perspective from the EEBA Legends

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

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#20-2025 Matt Brill founder of Bauen Build

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#19-2025 Ryan Meres and RESNET’s National Building Registry Data Base

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#18-2025 - Sam Rashkin Reflections on Construction

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#17-2025  Brad Smith – City of Fort Collings Carbon Neutrality by 2030

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

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#15-2025 Aron Jones Big Dog Construction

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

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#13 Fernando Pages Ruiz is a builder and author of “Building an affordable house”.

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#12-2025 Beau Brown C&H Inspections & business marketing with social media

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#11-2025 Brian Shanks - Beezer Homes the 11th largest homebuilder in the United States

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

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#9-2025 Sam Myers Building Scientist at Retrotec

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#8-2025 Steve Baden – A retrospective with RESNET’S founding Executive Director

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#7-2025 Nicole Tysvaer (Tis-vare) and the Queen of Zero in new homes and renovations.

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#6 – 2025 Mike Collignon Green Builder Coalition and the Water Efficiency Rating Score

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#5-2025 REDT Homes- Becoming a regional production LEED Platinum builder in Colorado

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

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#3 -2025 Jacob Deva Racusin Co-Founder and Director of Building Science and Sustainability with New Frameworks

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#2-2025 Rob Howard, of Howard Building Science

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#1-2025 Randy Williams – Applied Building Science, Energy Performance, and Cold Climate Construction

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#11-2024 BUILDcast - FOCUSED Certainteed Solar Shingle & RHEEM HPWH

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#26 - 2024 Robby Riffs on the 2027 International Energy Conservation Code

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#10-2024 BUILDcast - FOCUSED Joe Medosch & Measure Quick

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#25-2024 - Josh Butzbaugh - Building America Solution Center HPWH Installation Tool

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#2024-24 Robert Lewis – The History of Radon

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#23-2024 Dennis Helblig – Continuing to Bring Solar Energy to New Construction

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#22-2024 Scott Doyle - RESNET Quality Assurance

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#21-2024 Nick Hurst and the EPA Indoor airPLUS Program

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#20-2024 Stephen Davis - Product Manager and Director of Building Science for Quadrant Performance Materials.

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#9-2024 BUILDcast FOCUSED - Rock Wool and Warm Board from the IBS show

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#19-2024 Dave Roberts Retires from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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#18-2024 Eric Werling - Formerly the DOE Building America Program Director and now the Principal Consultant at Home Innovation Strategies

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# 17 – 2024 Peter Yost Principal of Building Wright

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#16 -2024 Eric Kaiser Industry Engagement Manager Tru Tech Tools

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#8-2024 BUILDcast FOCUSED - LG’s new Heat Pump Water Heater With Voya Milasinovic

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#15 -2024 - Ben Bogie of Building Performance Cooperative

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#14 -2024 Joe Medosch, what is Measure Quick

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#13 -2024 Sara Gutterman CEO Green Builder Media

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#7-2024 BUILDcast FOCUSED - Cold Climate Heat Pumps with Shawn Lemons

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#12 -2024 Asa Foss EnergyStar and NextGen electrification for new homes

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#11-2024 Allison Bailes HVAC Design and All Things Heat Pumps

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#10-2024 Emily Mottram Architect and the Pretty Good House

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#6-2024 BUILDcast FOCUSED - Dr. Robert Tino Sonora 10 Minutes on the Economics affecting the building industry

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#9-2024 Dr. Ian Giammanco and IBHS’s Thunderstorm Ready Home

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#8 -2024 IBS and all things Heat Pump Water Heating

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#7-2024 Devon Tilly – The Art of Construction a platform that is bring people together in the construction industry

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#4-2024 BUILDcast-FOCUSED (Navien Hydro-Furnace)

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#3-2024 BUILDcast - FOCUSED (10 Minutes on the Federal tax Credits)

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#6-2024 Robert Tino Sonora Clinical Professor of Finance and adjunct professor of economics at the College of Business, University of Montana

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#5- 2024 Enrico Bonilauri – A report on the performance of 12 Building Standards

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#4 – 2024 Kohta Ueno from Mentee to Mentor

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#3-2024 BUILDcast Focused: Short, Concentrated, Informative

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#2-2024 BUILDcast-FOCUSED: 9 minutes with Martin Holladay

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#3 – 2024 Paul Raymer – The Renaissance Man of Building Science

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#1-2024 BUILDcast /FOCUSED: short and sweet info for you

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#2-2024 Martin Holladay - a self-made building scientist

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#1 - 2024 Pat Huelman, a career in Building Science Education and Research

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#26 -2023 Ken Levenson Executive Director at The Passive House Network

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#25 -2023 Lisa White Associate Director PHIUS on all things PHIUS

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#24 -2023 Ross Trethewey Principal Te2 Engineering. Making HVAC design understandable.

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#23-2023 DOE’s Building America Solution Center and the Building Science Advisor

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#22-2023 Todd Usher Addison Homes – Builder, Professor, Energy Rater

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#21 -2003 Bill Spohn President and CEO of TruTech Tools

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#20 -2003 Matt Everson Defining the damage, a builder’s guide to Insurance scope of loss reports.

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#19 -2003 Steve Baczek bridging between architecture and sound building science.

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#18 -2003 United Policy Holders, Marshall Fire, Natural Disasters, and the disaster of dealing with insurance.

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#17 -2023 Dr. Diana Fisler at the crossroads of building technology innovation and market adoption

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2023 - #16 Craig Maierhofer Vice President of Business Development at Alpen High Performance Products AKA All things High- Performance Windows

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2023 - #15 - Pamela Bookstein, if you are not talking about it, you’re giving it away.

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2023 - #14 Building Better with Karen Benner

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2023 - #13 Mike Missimer Principal Owner MGI Mechanical Services and Rockview Designs

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2023 - #12 Gayathri Vijayakumar Principal Mechanical Engineer at Steven Winter Associates

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2023 - #11 Keith Dennis President, Beneficial Electrification League

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2023 - #10 Anna Perks Founder of Perks Deconstruction

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2023 - #9 Glenn Mathewson Creator of BuildingCodeCollege.com

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2023 - #8 Off Site Construction with B Public Prefab and CEO Founder Edie Dillman

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2023 - #7 Ed Fronapfel Forensic Engineer and Principal Investigator on Zero Clearance shaft liner Area Separation Wall E119 Burn Testing

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2023 - #6 Zack Giffin - Professional Skier, Tiny House Advocate, and Host of the popular show Tiny House Nation

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2023 - #5 Jake Bruton of Arrow Building

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#4-2023 Thriving in Construction, with Gene Myers, Founder of Thrive Home Builders.

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#3-2023 Gary Nelson – They call him the "Father of the Blower Door"

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#2-2023 Rick Schultz Water Efficiency Supervisor Town of Castle Rock Water

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#1-2023 Teal Lehto Instagram’s “Wester Water Girl”, helps set the stage about water issues in the west and their potential impact on construction.

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#28-2022 Allan Hubbell Residential Marketing Leader at Dupont and host of the “Residentially Speaking” podcast.

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#27-2022 An Insurance Primer for Disasters with Tim Stuber Insurance Agency LLC.

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#26-2022 Larry Acker ACT D'mand Hot Water Systems Systems

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#25-2022 Scott Sedam True North Development and Lean Building

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#24 -2022 Energy Modeling Consistency with Neal Kruis Energy Modeling Director for RESNET

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#23-2022 Energy and Environmental Building Alliance (EEBA) Building Summit Exhibitor Recap

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#22-2022 Skilled Trade Training in High Schools with Matthew Blomquist and Michael Degitis

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#21 - 2022 Bonus Episode - Midwest Building Science Symposium recap from me and a few other attendees

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#20-2022 Dan Gorham and the new Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety Wildfire Prepared Home Program

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#19-2022 A Conversation with Gord Cooke

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#18-2022 Heart of A Building with Paul Kriescher

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#17-2022 Travis Brungardt, Catalyst Construction, and the Midwest Building Science Symposium

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#16 – 2022 Fred Malik and the Fortified Construction Program

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#15-2022 Brett Dillon and Building Science Institute – A New organizations offering an independent Energy Rating Index score, and which is recognized as an EnergyStar Home Oversite Organization.

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#14-2022 Lumber Connection Podcast from SBCA (Structural Building Components Association)

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#13-2022 Brian Iverson – Bring Tstud™ to Market.

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#12-2022 Thoughts on the 2024 IECC development process

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#11-2022 University of Colorado Solar Decathlon Build Challenge Team leaders describe their entry in the 2022-2023 Event

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#10-2022 Mark Willie - A wonderful journey to sharing ones passion with the world

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#9-2022 Sandra Adomatis and the Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum

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#8-2022 A conversation with Mark LaLiberte - The Art of Applied Building Science

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#7-2022 Bill Rose - retired Senior Research Architect from the Indoor Climate Research and Training Applied Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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#6-2022 Drew Lindsay Owner of Hammerwell Construction Passive House Builders

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#5-2022 Boulder County Marshall Fire rebuild a builder and building consultants perspective.

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#4-2022 Mark Attard – one house's experience of the Boulder County Marshall Fire that burned on December 30th, 2021

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#3-2022 Peter Stuart of Sterling Enterprises and his journey to and through PHI certification

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#2-2022 Part 2 with Justin Wilson Understanding Construction Instruction

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#1-2022 Justin Wilson and Construction Instruction Part 1

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#27 - 2021 Decommissioning Martin Drake Power Plant in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Featuring, Jim Riggins, who is involved in the heat of his community's energy future.

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#26 - 2021 Bonus Episode EEBA Session - Creating an Airtight Shaft Liner Area Separation Wall

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#25-2021 Bill Rectanus, COO at Thrive Home Builders, discusses the business of Building from planning to going vertical

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#24-2021 Nigel Watts – bringing RHEIA HVAC airtight compact air distribution system to market.

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#23-2021 The Biggest Roadblock to Electrification of homes, Removing the Gas Cook Top

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#22 - 2021 Jonah Schein, WaterSense National Program Manager for Homes & Buildings

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#21-2021 Bonus Conversation about ZERO Energy Homes with Gord Cooke, Bill Rectanus, Justin Wilson, and Seth Hart at the 2021 EBBA Summit

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#20-2021 Greg Fisher Architect and his Fisher Passive House

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#19-2021 Shawn LeMons with Mitsubishi Electric Trane US HVAC and a conversation about heat pump technology and much more

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#18-2021 Part I - EEBA Summit Bonus Episode conversations I had with sponsor exhibitors

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#18-2021 Part II - EEBA Summit Bonus Episode conversations I had with sponsor exhibitors

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#17-2021 Corbett Lunsford & His Building Performance Workshop

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#16-2021 Garry Klein's in Hot Water

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#15-2021 – CR Herro, Building Innovation Philosopher

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#14-2021 - Chris Mathis - – Creating Consensus in the construction industry through standards setting organizations

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#13-2021 Laurie Johnson & Emily Freeman - Construction and Demolition Waster Recycling

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#12-2021 Joe Medosch - Healthy Building Scientist at Hayward Score

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#11-2021 Steve Andrews, a treasured mentor of mine.

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#10-2021 David Goldstein - Energy policy advocate & Energy CO-Director with the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC)

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#9-2021 Eric Holt Assistant Professor at University of Denver - Burns School of Real Estate & Construction Management.

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#8-2021 - #5 Kirsch/Stroup Passive House Series Zane Bishop - Bishop Built Construction Becoming a Passive House Builder

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#7-2021 - #4 Kirsch/Stroup Passive House Series David Barns - Bishop Built Construction Manager

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#6-2021 - #3 Kirsch/Stroup Passive House Series Munn Architecture - Architecture and Passive House

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#5-2021 - #2 Kirsch-Stroupe Passive House EMU Systems – The passive house consultant, educator, and more.

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#4-2021 #1 Kirsch-Stroupe Passive House - Matt & Kerri the home buyers/owner - How they got to Passive House

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#3-2021 Jeffery Rhodin Principal of Lean Green Building, inc.

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#2-2021 A Conversation With Sam Rashkin

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And Interview with myself " Robby Schwarz" The Host of BUILDCast