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#20-2026 Ed May – A Discussion about all Things Passive House – Part 2 (opens the original)
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Welcome back to my conversation with Ed May. As you may remember, Ed, is a partner at Building Type, a design consulting firm that concentrates on passive house energy modeling and successfully guiding projects to certification and/or just achieving their performance goals. The conversation picks up where we left off discussing how Passive house integrates with code compliance. We also speak to his work with Honey Bee open source software and his thoughts on resiliency and indoor air quality. Ed
#19-2026 Ed May – A Discussion about all Things Passive House – Part 1 (opens the original)
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Welcome to part one of my conversations with Ed May. Ed, is a partner at Building Type, a design consulting firm that concentrates on passive house energy modeling and successfully guiding projects to certification and/or just achieving their performance goals. Ed’s carrier started as a carpenter/builder who then got his master’s in architecture at Parsons School of Design. These two worlds collided when he became a faculty team lead of the 2009 Parsons DOE Solar Decathlon project. Ed now spends
#18-2026 Doug Hansel- building science consultant with DHP Energy (opens the original)
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My discussion with Doug Hansel of DHP Energy follows his move from being a respiratory therapist to becoming a building science consultant. We begin with work that he has done documenting the R-value of installed insulation and then move into how he has blended respiratory health, indoor environmental air quality and his new passion for building science. He has created his own Frankenstein ERV system that he feels meets the modern needs and realities of our housing today. Broan and others manufa
#17-2026 LEVVEN Electronics with Sean Vo and Vanessa Wright (opens the original)
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Sean Vo US director of Sales and Partnership and Vanessa Wright Sustainability Manager spoke to me about LEVVEN Electronic, the company they work for. Interestingly LEVVEN basically sells one product, radio frequency controlled switch that replace normal toggle or dimmer switches in a home and comply with the new 2021 IECC section R404.2 Interior lighting controls requirement that permanently installed lighting fixtures be controlled with either a dimmer, an occupant sensor control or other cont
#16-2026 Nick Burch – 90 years of SASHCO (opens the original)
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Nick Burch is the Director of Finance at SASHCO, a family owned and operated business that is celebrating their 90th year of operation this year. Nick got his real start at SASCHCO filling caulking tubes as a baby. As they say, labor laws were less strict in the ’80s, but really, he worked on the floor manufacturing caulks and sealants while growing up. We learn more about Nick and the history of this 90-year-old company and the business philosophy that has made it a success all these years. I k
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