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A W A R D S2015 Green Home of the Year

This year’s homes have upped the ante on
overall sustainability. Several of our
winners have achieved net-zero energy or
are net-zero ready; in addition, our expert
panel of judges evaluated the projects on
comprehensive criteria, including siting,
the depth of building science employed,
materials sourcing and reuse and overall
resilience. We hope you find these homes
as inspiring as we do.

Bill Rectanus is the Sam Hagerman is co-founder Steve Byers gets up every day (nearly)
vice president of and co-owner of Hammer & excited to go to work and lead the
Homebuilding Hand, a Portland- and Seattle- incredible staff of professionals at
Operations for Thrive based construction company EnergyLogic. Based in Colorado,
Home Builders. His dedicated to inciting evolution EnergyLogic serves a wide variety of
responsibilities include in building through service, clients in the residential and light
the management and craft and science. Founded in commercial energy efficiency and
oversight of the 1995, his firm specializes in sustainability spaces. “In short, we help
construction, high-performance building in make buildings better,” he says. Steve
purchasing and customer service the commercial and residential realms, with projects started his professional life as a pilot in the Air Force, after
departments. In addition to his daily such as Pumpkin Ridge Passive House, recent graduating from the Air Force Academy. He “stumbled into”
responsibilities, Bill is also responsible for recipient of U.S. Department of Energy’s Housing energy and sustainability and spent several wonderful years
the implementation of Thrive Home Innovation Award. Sam is an active member of the at Southface Energy institute in Atlanta before striking out
Builders’ “High Performance Building U.S. building science community, both through his on his own. He and his wife, Wynne Maggi, started a
Initiative.” Bill is very active in the Denver leadership of the national Passive House movement company which eventually morphed into EnergyLogic.
homebuilding industry, where he serves on (he served as inaugural president of Passive House He is blessed with a pair of talented daughters, a great
the Board of Directors for the Home Alliance U.S.) and through his high performance community and the great hope that he will continue to find
Builders Association of Metro Denver. building praxis at Hammer & Hand. new and exciting things to do in this life.
www.thrivehomebuilders.com www.hammerandhand.com www.nrglogic.com

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