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SIPA looks back on Jacksonville FL
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Annual Meeting Agenda click here for detailed agenda
Kudos to the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel for providing a great venue for the SIPA meeting. We took care of business, played golf, and reconnected with our association members. And a special applause to Lee Bergum, Energy Panel Structures, as SIPA's new President. SIPA extends a warm Thank You to Ard Smits as he steps down as President after 3 terms.
For a complete list of current SIPA Board of Directors click here to visit the www.sips.org website.
Building Excellence Award Winners
Overall Competition
Agricultural
Multifamily
Commercial / Industrial / Institutional under 10,000sqft
Affordable Housing
Single Family Houses over 3,000sqft
Single Family Houses under 3,000sqft
Renovations
Small House under 900sqft
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to those who submitted so many fine projects for consideration. Detailed posting of all the winners will be posted to www.sips.org in the next few days. Check the Building Excellence Awards page by clicking here.
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Meet the 2018 Building Excellence Awards JudgesClick here to access the Building Excellence Award page for more details. |
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Chris Fennell, COO at Institute for Building Technology and Safety, has more than twenty-five years of domestic and international market research, management consulting, and engineering experience. BuildingInsight LLC specializes in new product and service commercialization, branding and communications research, and energy and sustainability strategy for product manufacturers, service providers, membership organizations, and public-sector clients. BuildingInsight has facilitated hundreds of focus groups, industry roundtables, and client meetings and has developed a state-of-the-art Internet-based survey platform for quantitative studies including conjoint analysis-based pricing research. Prior to founding BuildingInsight, he spent nearly nine years at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center as Vice-President of Marketing and Division Director for Market Research and Energy Programs. While there, he managed more than 100 research projects for public- and private-sector clients. He was the NAHBRC Zero Energy Home Program and Building America Program team leader for the US Department of Energy. |
Chris Fennell - COO at Institute for Building Technology and Safety. Chris formerly was VP at NAHB Research Center and President of Building Insight, a marketing/research firm |
Ron Jones, President and Co-founder of Green Builder® Media. |
Ron Jones - Green Builder Magazine (long time builder, previously on NAHB and USGBC boards; also developed the 1st NAHB / ICC ANSI Green Building Standard) |
Sam Rashkin, Chief Architect with the DOE, is the author of the book titled “Retooling the U.S. Housing Industry: How It Got Here, Why It’s Broken, and How to Fix It” that presents a comprehensive strategy for transforming the new homebuyer consumer experience. Sam brings the lessons from this book to housing executives across the country with workshops and collaborative meetings that help them accelerate innovation. Apart from this work, Sam has earned a national reputation for his work leading housing programs that have partnered with thousands of home builders and resulted in over one million certified high-performance homes. Mr. Rashkin was recently recognized for his contributions to sustainable housing with the 2012 Hanley Award. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University; and is a registered architect in California and New York. During his 20-plus years as a licensed architect, he specialized in energy efficient design and completed over 100 residential projects. He has served on the national Steering Committees for USGBC’s LEED for Homes, NAHB’s Green Builder Guidelines, and EPA’s Water Sense label, and on the development team for EPA’s Indoor airPLUS label. Sam has also prepared hundreds of articles, technical papers, reports, and seminars; and contributed to other books on energy efficient and green construction. |
Sam Rashkin - Chief Architect with the DOE and runs the Zero Energy Ready Home Program (formerly Challenge Home and Energy Star Homes) |
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