E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: I had the opportunity to talk to Matt Blomquist out in Taylorville Illinois this week. During our discussion he talked highly of all of his students. But he really caught my attention when he said he had one female student in his class and that she was a rockstar. That immediately got my attention and I asked him if it would be okay to record a podcast with her as well. She’s sharp, she’s funny, she’s fearless and we all have a lot to learn from her!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: This week the podcast hits close to home as fellow guest Randy does a lot of energy consulting. The last time the economy tanked, it was considered “gainfully unemployed” to be an architect. So I spent years training and educating myself on building science and doing a little bit of design. Now, i’m a building science junky and I’m doing a lot more design and very little energy auditing. It’s almost a treat when I get to throw my blower door in my truck and take it to a jobsite. Randy is in Minnesota doing energy auditing and building. It was a pleasure to have him on talking about their very cold zone 7 climate and things that he sees on the regular in their areas. PS. I apologize in advance for the couple barks you here. I tried to edit out my fur kid everywhere that I could. He’s getting old, he doesn’t understand being quiet during recordings. Today’s podcast is well worth the listen! Thanks for tuning in.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Mike Ardeljan from Dream Home Building & Design LLC in Oregon this week. He is a high performance home builder and an AeroBarrier technician/supplier. Because his background is in high performance building, I thought this would be the best way to learn more about this new technology and I was not disappointed! Send your comments and questions, I'm happy to have Mike on again - or reach out directly to him - contact info in the show notes!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: Moving on a little bit from Climate, but still talking building science with with individuals outside of the state of Maine. Today I had the opportunity to chat with Jack Rosebery, a fellow architect, who practices in Long Island New York. I was very excited to hear what he had to say about working for Habitat for Humanity in his area. One thing I took away though, was that 90% of Long Island is built out - so where do they go next? Tune in to hear what he had to say about building in Climate Zone 4A with some unique attributes to Long Island.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off February talking about Climate. What could be better - it’s the worst weather month in all of Maine - but it’s a reminder - if we do nothing - Maine will have Virginia’s climate in 2050. What will it be like to have warm waters and no snow? How will that affect our eco-systems? This week I had the pleasure of talking with another architect, Betty Reyes, who practices in Florida. Maybe it’s this cold weather, or the fact that people are flocking to Florida in droves, but Florida’s climate is fascinating to me. It’s so completely different then Maine. They have so much moisture, cooling not heating, hurricanes, and a significantly higher water table. It was a pleasure talking to Betty I learned so much about her climate zone and their approach to building better in Florida.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off February talking about Climate. What could be better - it’s the worst weather month in all of Maine - but it’s a reminder - if we do nothing - Maine will have Virginia’s climate in 2050. What will it be like to have warm waters and no snow? How will that affect our eco-systems? This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lance Cayko of F9 Productions in Colorado. It’s amazing how parts of their state touch Texas and parts are 8000 feet above sea level. While we are trying to convince people to build super insulated building structures, the are wrestling with 300 days of sunshine and the deterioration of materials + lack of water. Fascinating to hear how other people deal with their specific climate zones! Enjoy

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off February talking about Climate. What could be better - it’s the worst weather month in all of Maine - but it’s a reminder - if we do nothing - Maine will have Virginia’s climate in 2050. What will it be like to have warm waters and no snow? How will that affect our eco-systems? This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Travis Brungardt of Catalyst Construction in KC to talk a little bit about their climate. They get cold and wet + warm and wet. Interesting! So here’s a little bit more about their philosophy and building in their climate!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off February talking about Climate. What could be better - it’s the worst weather month in all of Maine - but it’s a reminder - if we do nothing - Maine will have Virginia’s climate in 2050. What will it be like to have warm waters and no snow? How will that affect our eco-systems? I don’t have the answers to that - but I do know a little bit about designing high performance homes for cold climate. And since we still have a cold climate, and we’d like to keep it that way, let’s talk a little bit more about that! Climate Zone 6 - Cold Climates

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off 2020 talking about “The Pretty (damn) Good House” I firmly believe we should be building the most energy efficient buildings possible. We should be improving our buildings until it becomes economically unfeasible to do more. We need to renovate what we have, improve density levels, and only build the very best in efficient buildings to make up for what we don’t have. The environment and our pockets can’t handle all this bad building! January has been a really fun month and this session on Economics with Mike was a great discussion! Thanks for joining us!

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off 2020 talking about “The Pretty (damn) Good House” I firmly believe we should be building the most energy efficient buildings possible. We should be improving our buildings until it becomes economically unfeasible to do more. We need to renovate what we have, improve density levels, and only build the very best in efficient buildings to make up for what we don’t have. The environment and our pockets can’t handle all this bad building! So I hope you’ll join me this season on the podcast as I talk about things we should know when building. Thanks for tuning in - let’s kick it off with a high level discussion on Economics - and i’ll dive deeper into the subject over the month of January.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: We are very excited to be starting off 2020 talking about “The Pretty (damn) Good House” I firmly believe we should be building the most energy efficient buildings possible. We should be improving our buildings until it becomes economically unfeasible to do more. We need to renovate what we have, improve density levels, and only build the very best in efficient buildings to make up for what we don’t have. The environment and our pockets can’t handle all this bad building! So I hope you’ll join me this season on the podcast as I talk about things we should know when building. Thanks for tuning in - let’s kick it off with a high level discussion on Economics - and i’ll dive deeper into the subject over the month of January.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. This week is the last podcast of 2019! Happy December All. One of my passion projects is “The Pretty Good House” For the last two months we’ve been discussing it at Performance Building Supply’s Building Science Discussion Group! So I thought it was a fitting way to round out the end of 2019 with a recap of the discussion and some interesting points it brought up about renovations! I hope you enjoy - and please reach out and let me know what you’d like to hear in 2020 emily@mottramarch.com

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. This week we welcome back our resident building science expert Mike Maines to discuss WRB’s (Weather Resistant Barriers, Water Resistant Barriers, Water Control Layer) whatever you want to call it. It’s one of the 4 critical control layers in a building, arguably one of the most important as our buildings DO NOT need to breath - but they do need to dry out. So we need to control how and when the water gets in and out of the shell. Which WRB to use isn’t a simple answer - “It Depends” so take a listen to the podcast and check out the show notes for links to some of the things we talked about.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. It’s Black Friday Y’all! This week I just wanted to have a light and fun podcast about some randomness and Black Friday shopping. Sears and their kit houses? Why aren’t we still doing this? Webinar series for “The Pretty Good House” and I forgot to mention, but when I was talking about Black Friday shopping I wanted to share a little story about my niece. She’s smart, funny, and exuberant…but she hates to clean her room. She’s my mini me in so many ways. She often tells her mom “It’s too hard” and the truth is, maybe if we had less stuff to manage, it would be easier to manage it? Just a thought on Black Friday! If you’re out shopping, good luck to you. I’m in the office. The only thing I got up early for today, was to work off that Thanksgiving dinner.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. This week I had the pleasure of talking with Darius and Tom (he’s there, he’s just really silent). Together they are building a super high performance ADU in Brunswick. And although they are not new to building, this is the first opportunity for them to flex their building science muscles and really dig deep into some of the best ways to build. I like to have a variety of perspectives on the show, and I thought it would be valuable to hear about the struggles and the success of building a high performance home. Hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. This week I had a request to talk about how to get into this field. I don’t think it was specifically about architecture, so much as, how to offer energy efficiency when the market isn’t asking for it yet.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. This week I had a request to talk about how to get into this field. I don’t think it was specifically about architecture, so much as, how to offer energy efficiency when the market isn’t asking for it yet.

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. This week we have resident building science expert, Mike Maines, back with us to discuss something that is critically important in the building industry - Air Barriers. Not only where do they belong, but why do we even need them?

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is a podcast dedicated to energy efficient home building in cold climate areas of New England. For the month of October we are very excited to have some stellar female guests join us on the podcast. For the month of October we have been highlighting some amazing women in construction. It all started when a client of mine shared an article with a movement labeled #moveoverbob. So today we get to talk to the founder of MOB and hear why she started and what it means to be a woman in the construction industry.