Paul Eldrenkamp, Conference Chair
Paul Eldrenkamp is founder and owner of Byggmeister Inc., a 25-year-old design-build remodeling company based in Newton, MA with a particular focus on substantial reductions to household energy use. He has been on the boards of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (and was recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors again!), the Green Decade Coalition, and the Newton Historical Society; he is currently serving on Governor Patrick’s Zero Net Energy Building Task Force. Paul writes often on energy and environmental issues for trade and consumer publications (view a summary and links here), and also speaks regularly at building industry conferences and for local environmental organizations.
The Conference Chair is responsible for shepherding the content of the conference through an articulated vision of what the conference hopes to achieve. BuildingEnergy strives to ask and explore the questions most relevant to practitioners in the fields of sustainable energy and building today. Paul’s vision for BuildingEnergy began with ‘burning questions’, a theme which closed out BE12, and combined with the concept of resilience. With Marc Sternick and the BuildingEnergy Planning Committee, the content reflects what is on the minds of many – how do we make structures (and infrastructures, and communities, etc.) that last, that serve their occupants comfortably no matter what the weather, and do not use more than they make? Read a bit more about the evolution of the conference in the NESEA Blog: here, here and most recently, here.
Marc Sternick, Conference Vice Chair
Marc Sternick, AIA, is the Vice President and Senior Project Architect for Dietz & Company Architects and oversees their green building efforts. Marc has spent over 25 years assessing, designing and constructing high performance affordable housing. Until January 2013 Marc served on the NESEA Board of Directors, and has been a devoted attendee of BuildingEnergy since 2001. He has also chaired several sessions and tracks as well as presented at BE since first attending in 2001. (The conference is a gateway, to be sure!)
Dietz & Company Architects is the largest full service architectural firm in Springfield, MA, with four LEED AP architects. Dietz & Co. Architects is committed to thoughtful, sustainable and contextually appropriate designs.
The BuildingEnergy Conference Vice Chair is tasked with cultivating a stellar line-up of Tuesday workshops that delve deeply into their topics in half and full-day classes. The vice chair assists in the development of all content and in support of the conference chair’s vision. The vice chair is also in line to become Conference Chair the following year. Stay tuned for Marc’s vision for BuildingEnergy 2014.
