Sam Rashkin | Founder of Retooling the U.S. Housing Industry

Sam Rashkin has earned an international reputation for his work engaging thousands of homebuilders as national director for ENERGY STAR Certified Home and Chief Architect with the U.S. DOE Building Technologies Office directing Zero Energy Ready Home. Over 2.5 million high-performance homes have now been certified under these programs. Based on the transformational impact these programs have had on sustainable housing, Sam has been recognized with the Energy and Environmental Building Alliance (EEBA) Legend Award in 2019, Hanley Award in 2012, and Professional Builder Achievement Award in 2002.

Sam has applied lessons-learned from his decades of experience, research, and extensive industry engagement in his latest book, “Housing 2.0 – A Disruption Survival Guide.” This unique resource lays out the future for housing in the U.S. along with a comprehensive framework for optimizing the housing user experience.

During his prior work as a licensed architect, Sam specialized in energy efficient design and completed over 100 high-performance residential projects. He has served on national Steering Committees for USGBC’s LEED for Homes, NAHB’s Green Builder Guidelines, EPA’s Water Sense label, and EPA’s Indoor airPLUS label. In addition to his books, Sam has also written hundreds of published articles, technical papers, reports, and seminars; and contributed to other books on energy-efficient and green construction. Sam loves housing and has made it his life’s work.
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Asa Foss | Program Manager, ENERGY STAR NextGen

Asa Foss joined EPA’s ENERGY STAR Residential Branch in 2020, where he’s managing ENERGY STAR NextGen - an operational decarbonization-focused new construction on specification. He’s been in the residential efficiency industry since the early 2000s, including a decade at the US Green Building Council where he was responsible for the development of the LEED for Homes rating systems. He renovated and lives in a designated-historic ENERGY STAR and LEED Platinum certified rowhouse in Washington, DC.
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Joe Medosch | Client Success Manager for measureQuick, Owner of Energy & Environmental Consulting

Joe Medosch is an Industry Master Trainer, national presenter, and his diverse background in multiple trades provides a unique understanding of “The House as System.”  Joe has been evaluating homes for 20+ years and has been a Comfort Consultant /Trainer for over 15+ years providing solutions on Healthier/Energy Efficient Home Performance and co-creator of Retrotec rCloud app.
Certifications / knowledge base and committees include: Board Member on Healthy Air Research and Certification Authority (HARCA), ACCA, IAQ/IEQ assessments, ICC, BPI, RESNET, SMACNA, ASTM …
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Scott Doyle  |  Technical Director of Quality Assurance & Training at RESNET^®

Since entering the residential energy industry as a RESNET HERS® Rater in 2003, Scott’s background has included wide variety across housing types, climate zones, codes, programs, and business types. Always up for a new challenge, he has consistently embraced opportunities to serve in a variety of roles. Some of these roles included HERS Rater, Quality Assurance Designee,
Instructor, committee chairman, program manager, and division director. Prior to his role with
RESNET, Scott was already directly involved in industry standard development through
committee appointments and served as a volunteer subject matter expert for multiple
professional certification exams.

As RESNET’s Technical Director of Quality Assurance and Training, Scott’s role is to manage,
train, and mentor the individuals performing important quality control and training for the
home energy rating industry across the U.S and to guide industry standard and policy changes
that support this effort. RESNET’s mission is to make the energy use of all homes transparent,
thereby driving residential sector energy use toward net zero. The majority of his nearly twodecade
career has been with growth and profit-driven organizations in the private sector. But
in retrospect, Scott has been supporting this larger goal in some way across the last two
decades. Since joining the non-profit side in 2017, Scott directly supports RESNET’s mission by
enhancing the consistency of home energy ratings through improved quality assurance and
training.

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Colby Swanson  |  Managing Partner at Momentum Innovation Group

A reformed building scientist, retired at the age of 37, Colby now spends his afternoons gardening and working to transition the construction industry from onsite everything, to a more balanced off-site + on-site mix of methodologies…maybe resulting in leading the industry out of…Mordor?

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Nick Hurst | Indoor airPLUS Program Manager at US EPA

Nick grew up in eastern Pennsylvania where he first learned the construction trade from his dad and uncles in the suburbs of Lancaster County during the booming ‘90s. In the early 2000s, he suffered the perils of the PA Turnpike when he spent ~5 years in Pittsburgh as an independent remodeler and builder, subsequently becoming a fair-weather Steelers fan. Nick dabbled for a few years in custom timber framing and natural building techniques, but wanted to formally pursue sustainability, renewables, energy efficiency, and indoor air quality. Nick went on to earn a Master’s in Technology (concentration in Building Science) from Appalachian State University, took training under BPI and RESNET, and worked with homebuilders across North Carolina to help improve building techniques and market value for high-performance homes. Nick eventually settled in a 1935 “fixer-upper” in western Virginia, where he now works as the Program Manager of EPA’s Indoor airPLUS label for new homes. When he's not addressing building science and IAQ questions (in his own home and others), Nick likes to make music, play disc golf, and shuttle his two kids all over the place... trying to keep them off screens and out of the emergency room.

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