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Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cleveland
Licking County Habitat for Humanity
Roger Beck
Mr. Beck Is a 35 year public school Technology Education teacher, Ohio Ashland Teacher Merit Award Winner for 2000, and the Emerald Award winner for environmental education for 2008 from the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio, SWACO. He has given numerous workshops and presentations throughout Ohio on construction technology, lectured at O.S.U. in the school of Construction Management and has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at O.S.U. With over 10 years of experience building with Habitat for Humanity, the thirteenth affordable home his high school classes built in 2009 is a LEED Platinum certified home in partnership with the Columbus Housing Partnership. The 2009 affordable home is the first affordable Platinum home in the Great Lakes Region and the first Platinum home in the state of Ohio. The last five homes he built used only solar energy from a solar powered construction trailer that his team built which was the inspiration for the solar cells on the governor’s mansion. He is a co-principal in GreenTechConsultants LLC, a green consulting and construction company.
Mandy Metcalf, LEED® AP, AICP
Mandy Metcalf is Environmental Health Watch’s Affordable Green Housing Center director. The Affordable Green Housing Center provides educational resources and technical assistance to promote healthy, affordable, green housing in Cleveland and its inner suburbs. EHW is providing assistance to the Cuyahoga Community Land Trust’s Green Cottages project, and for the Cuyahoga County Department of Development’s deep energy retrofit demonstration. Before joining EHW, Mandy served as director of the Cleveland EcoVillage, a neighborhood redevelopment initiative organized around principles of ecological design and community involvement. The Cleveland EcoVillage fostered and developed a number of green and healthy housing demonstrations including the GreenBuilt Homes, the EcoVillage Townhomes in collaboration with the national Building America program, and the EcoVation green retrofit. These projects were the first in Northeast Ohio to demonstrate that green building could be a successful part of community development in distressed inner-city neighborhoods. Mandy’s experience also includes urban planning positions at the Kent State Urban Design Center and with Sanford/Lee County Community Development. She received a Masters of Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jack Hedge, FAIA, LEED® AP
Jack Hedge is a design principal with DesignGroup Architects. He has served as AIAColumbus president and founded the AIA Columbus COTE as well as being a founding member of the AIA Ohio COTE, For nearly thirty years, he has been applying passive solar, energy efficiency and day lighting theory to institutional and corporate facilities. Recently he was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects for advancing the practice of architecture in the area of sustainable design.
Betsy Pettit, FAIA
Ms. Pettit is the president of Building Science Corporation and is a registered architect with over 30 years of professional experience. She is currently the project manager for Building Science Corporation’s Building America project that has provided whole system designs for over 3,000 high performance houses nationwide.
Ms. Pettit was responsible for the design of numerous developments and houses that have set standards for resource efficient housing around the country. She is the former Director of Modernization and Redevelopment in the public housing division of Massachusetts’ Executive Offices of Communities and Development. There she oversaw over $120M of building improvements to the Commonwealth’s 40,000 units of public housing.
Ms. Pettit regularly gives seminars on the subjects of affordable, healthy and environmentally responsible housing to builders and architects around the country. Conferences include the Energy Efficient Building Association, Build Boston, Affordable Comfort, NAHB, and various utility companies around the country. She has contributed to many procedural and technical manuals and has written articles on energy efficiency housing for building journals and elsewhere. These documents serve as guidelines to designers and contractors around the country.
Edward Mazria
Edward Mazria, Founder and Executive Director of Architecture 2030, is an internationally recognized architect who reshaped the national and international dialogue on climate change by bringing the Building Sector to light as the greatest contributor to global warming. Mazria’s research was the first to show conclusively that buildings are responsible for half of all U.S. energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and that any viable solution to global warming must run through the Building Sector.
With Architecture 2030, Mazria developed and issued the 2030 Challenge, a strategy to dramatically reduce global GHG emissions and fossil-fuel consumption by the year 2030. This initiative has had tremendous impact, having been adopted by numerous national organizations, and been incorporated into local, state, and federal law.
Mazria speaks nationally and internationally on architecture, design, energy, and climate change. He has taught architecture at several universities including University of New Mexico, University of Oregon and UCLA. His numerous awards include AIA Design Awards, American Planning Association Award, Department of Energy Awards, ASES Pioneer Award, and the National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation. Mazria is the author of numerous published works, including “The Passive Solar Energy Book”, which is currently in use worldwide.
John C. Senhauser, FAIA
John Senhauser designs buildings that are nationally celebrated for their craft, durability, wit and poetic vitality. For the past thirty years, he and his firm have championed design excellence in every quadrant of the profession. Recognizing the firm’s compositional acuity and unsurpassed command of the modern idiom, both architects and builders have chosen to honor John Senhauser Architects with more than fifty design awards.
Linking practice with education and professional service, John is a former adjunct associate professor in design at the University of Cincinnati, former president of both AIA Cincinnati and AIA Ohio, former Regional Director for the Ohio Valley Region and the 2004-2006 Secretary of the Institute. Currently John is serving a three-year term on the National Architectural Accreditation Board as the 2008-2009 Secretary. In addition, he continues to serve his community as the Chair of the City of Cincinnati’s Historic Conservation Board, a member of the Urban Design Review Board, and a member of the University’s Design Review Committee.
Frank L. Elmer, FAIA, FAICP
Frank’s career has been characterized by innovation, breadth of endeavor, and successful plan implementation. An early, vocal advocate of urban living, Frank Elmer’s passion for cities is a pervasive theme of his work, both in architecture and in planning. His urban design work includes three scales of focus– development and redevelopment of town centers, master plan preparation, and the design of historic district restoration projects.
As an architect, Frank is known for his ability to extend the practice of architecture beyond the design of a single building to create places that reinforce connections between people and enhance urban life. His portfolio includes educational facilities, university buildings, research facilities, and urban housing. He is considered an expert in adaptive use work and historic preservation. Most notable recent projects include New Village Place, a 100 unit mixed income, infill housing development in the Italian Village Historic District, the LEED Certified Ohio 4-H Center on the Ohio State University campus, and the Great Lakes Business Growth and Development Center in Lorain Ohio.
Frank is a Founding Principal of Lincoln Street Studio. He has won numerous design and planning awards, and is one of a handful of Americans who is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Certified Planners. He received the AIA Ohio Gold Medal in 2008. |
