E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 - So pumped to talk to another PSU Architecture Alumni! Austin is a recent graduate from Penn State’s Architecture program and he had a lot of great advice for other individuals who are thinking about going to school for Architecture. You guys, i’m getting old! All joking aside, i was curious to hear if architecture school was the same. If he had different experiences in his time there, and what advice he would give after attending the same school that I did. ahem, just a few years after! He’s smart, he’s dynamic and there is no surprise that he’s been successful so far in his architecture path. Even if you’re not considering going to architecture school, this is an excellent episode with another amazing guest! Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 - February is turning out to be a big picture month! Taking us out of our homes, building and construction and looking at some bigger systems. Our house is a system, it’s part of a bigger energy grid system, and that is part of a larger eco-system. Today I had the pleasure of talking with Seth Mansur about energy, managing our energy and developing energy strategies, both at home and on a commercial scale. I hope you enjoy! ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 - On today’s episode of E3 I learned a little bit more about a climate policy and a website that helps us to evaluate what certain policies will do to effect climate change. Today’s episode covers Carbon Fee and Dividends - or “Carbon Cash Back” and the EnRoads website. See show notes for links, and when you get to the part that takes a visual break, click on the video link which will show a brief EnRoads tour. Enjoy! ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 - On today’s episode of E3 I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Jake Bruton. Many of you already know him for the great work and content he’s putting out there. But it seems, the more you learn the more you want to know. So a big thank you to Jake for taking time out of his busy schedule to sit down and chat all things building, building science, architecture, durability, safety and comfort. Enjoy! ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 - Megan reached out to me after listening to the podcast. She’s in real estate on the West Coast and has been interested in the building science nature of real estate for over a decade. She used to run her own green building podcast, sold everything and lived on a boat with her husband and two kids, and now she’s living and working in the Seattle area talking about aging in place or what to do when you’re aging out of a place. It was such a pleasure to talk with Megan about the trends she’s seeing in her market and how that applies to what we are really getting. Enjoy! ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 - You probably already know him from Treehugger, or maybe you recently saw him on the BS + Beer show, but I just can’t get enough of talking with Lloyd Alter. So I invited him to join me and talk about healthy buildings, selling building science to consumers, and some of the other hot buttons he thinks about as we head into 2021. Enjoy! ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Season 3 - 2020 was a whirlwind. So, to kick of 2021, I wanted to invite a very special person to share with you on the podcast. Kiley is the senior editor at Green Building Advisor and one of our brew crew hosts on The BS + Beer Show. She's on the Finehomebuilding Podcast and participates in so many things. But her nature is quiet and i wanted to get to know her better and share her thoughts and ideas with you! Enjoy! ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: This is the last podcast of 2020 and it’s really just a heartfelt thanks. It’s a mini reflection on 2020, a moment to say I’m going to be kind to myself as we usher 2020 out the door, and a little hope for 2021. I’m grateful, even in all the trials and stress of 2020, there has been joy, connection, and a beautiful sense of community. So, with a heart filled with gratitude, I say thank you and close the door on 2020. See you all again in the new year. Much love and many blessings to you and yours ~ Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: It’s the end of the year, so when you hear from a really great builder/homeowner that you worked with a few years ago, you convince them to join you on the podcast! I’m excited to have Mike DeNero with Newcastle Home Construction Corp in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Mike shares what it’s like to live in his house over the last 3.5 years, his interest in building science, and what he would have done differently. And, because I convinced him last minute to join me, i’m excited that he’d like to come back again and take a deeper dive into some of the things we talked about today. ~ Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: First, I want to say thank you to everyone. Not one person has complained about the lack of a podcast for the last 2+ weeks. Which means you are either not listening, busy too, or just ridiculously kind individuals. I’m going with the last one, keeping my faith in humanity. That being said, I’m excited about 2021 and the possibilities. So I invited my colleague, friend, and all around awesome guy Travis Brungardt to join me for this weeks show. We talk about leftovers, not the kind you eat, but the little tidbits or morsels of building science that creep into everything we do. And then we introduce a new concept we are working on for 2021 - Heroes of The Built Environment. If you don’t want to listen to us BS* skip to minute 39 and take a listen to the Heroes section. We are inviting your comments, feedback, wishlist, and involvement for this project. So without further wait ~ Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: These are a few of my favorite things! I was inspired by Travis to share some of my bookshelves and to post a few of my favorite things ahead of the holiday buying season. Traditionally I aim for adventures and hand made gifts, but with another round of the virus charging through our country, adventures are on hold. And spending time at home with all my stuff has gotten overwhelming and is a big reminder of the amount of time stuff management takes. So my list of favorite things is all about BOOKS! They can be read, shared, donated and loved by many. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: Joining me on the show today is fellow Architect Tracie Reed. She’s a downtown Portland Maine architect, mostly commercial and tenant fit out, with a very interesting perspective about being part of a your community. It was fun to swap stories with Tracie, hear what she’s up to, and just really understand how critical and important our communities are. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: Joining me on the show today is fellow Architect Tracie Reed. She’s a downtown Portland Maine architect, mostly commercial and tenant fit out, with a very interesting perspective about being part of a your community. It was fun to swap stories with Tracie, hear what she’s up to, and just really understand how critical and important our communities are. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: It’s been awhile since i did an interview with a homeowner and the last one we did was a new construction project. So today I spent a little time talking with Mia, a homeowner that I have done several renovation projects with over the years. She is a very detail oriented client with great taste, so here is a little more in her words to think about the process and working together. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: Life is short, time is valuable, and many of you tune in to the podcast frequently. So this week i’m keeping the podcast short and giving you longer homework! Go out, pick up “Healthy Buildings” by Joseph Allen and John Macomber. This is a subject i’ve been interested in for awhile, but I think the last 7 months have made it come to the forefront of a lot more discussions. So it’s timely that this book came out to help us dive deeper into the impacts our buildings have on our health. We hope to talk about this book on BS + Beer in early December before the Holiday Break - but join in with us now and read along! ~ Happy Reading ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: On this weeks episode I continue the conversation with the Architect and Builder of The Sugar Bush House in Vermont. This dynamic design + build duo talks in depth about what goes into making a great project. Everything from the integrated team approach to spending time on the site to understand what this home really wanted to be, and plenty of great content in between. I often talk about the importance of the integrated design approach, and here is a team putting that into practice and providing truly amazing homes in the process. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: I had the pleasure to talk with Bronwyn Barry , Architect and CPHC+D in California. She posted on her social media about the challenges she was facing getting people to understand her low load buildings from the mechanical standpoint. When I read that I knew I needed to talk with her. She is incredibly entertaining, a force to be reckoned with in the passive house community, so well connected to what other countries are doing better than us, and a huge proponent of raising the bar in our industry. We were having such a great chat that I just started recording and didn’t even bother with an intro. ~ Enjoy! ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: On this weeks episode I sat down with the Architect and Builder of The Sugar Bush House in Vermont. This dynamic design + build duo talks in depth about what goes into making a great project. Everything from the integrated team approach to spending time on the site to understand what this home really wanted to be, and plenty of great content in between. I often talk about the importance of the integrated design approach, and here is a team putting that into practice and providing truly amazing homes in the process. Enjoy ~ Emily

E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship. Welcome to Season 2: I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Nikki Krueger through BS & Beer and other mutual connections. She is a very impressive woman in the building and construction industry and I learn so much from her every time we chat. I thought it was about time to talk more about a hot button issue - Dehumidification and Ventilation! As an industry we don’t know nearly as much about these issues as we should, so i’ve made it my goal to learn what I can from the building industry leaders. I hope you enjoy this discussion I had with Nikki even a quarter as much as I did! Enjoy ~ Emily