I’ve been involved with a few efforts outside of my firm over the past winter and spring. As part of the “Pretty Good House” next gen crew I got myself involved with a bunch of folks including Michael Maines, Emily Mottram, Dan Kolbert, Ben Bogie, and a few others. We created a new website which is linked in at the top of my website. For those of you who follow Green Building Advisor, a while back, at a building science meeting in Maine, Dan Kolbert, frustrated at trying to figure out all the building rating systems such as Passive House, LEED, Energy Star etc said something along the lines of “I just want to build a pretty good house.”

Voila! a movement was born. Check it out here:

Following This effort I then got volunteered to assist with another effort with some of the same players. For years people have been getting together locally to talk building science. These regional groups can no longer get together in person with the current pandemic. We tried out a zoom format BS and Beer meeting and invited our friends from around the country. It became a thing. And now we are bringing it to the whole country with an online discussion group / panelist format. Emily, Mike and Travis Brungardt are the hosts with a weekly panel and discussing subjects within the High Performance Building World. The fine folks at Fine Homebuilding and Green Building Advisor pricked up their ears and are now helping to spread the BS (and helping with logistics as well)

Check out the BS* + Beer Show here: