2024 Speakers

Luke Leung

Luke is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Fellow; upcoming Chair for Environmental Health Committee, ASHRAE; BOMA Toronto, Health Committee Co-Chair; AIA COVID-19 Task Force; UK Academy of Engineers COVID-19 Task Force; Commercial Team Leader for Epidemic Task Force in ASHRAE; former Board of Directors for USGBC (United State Green Building Council), Illinois; Chairman of the ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning) Committee on “Tall Buildings”; Chairman of the Building Pressure Committee, Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings; Sustainable Committee with Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; Part Time Professor at IIT; Member of the Chicago Sister Cities Program with China; Centennial Fellow from The Pennsylvania State University Architectural Engineering Department; Industry Advisor with National Renewable Energy Laboratory for funding of start-up companies including energy and agriculture.

Luke Leung is a Director of the Sustainability Engineering Studio for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP.  His work includes master planning of XiongAn, the millennium city of China that will show case a net zero future and one of the healthiest city in the world; Burj Khalifa, the world’s current tallest man-made structure; Selected projects also include Pertamina Tower (Net Zero Supertall) using geothermal deep heat, General Motors Global Headquarters, Roche Diagnostic in Indianapolis, Beijing Finance Street, Embassy of Ottawa in Canada, Embassy in Beijing, Lakeside – 55 million sqft low energy development, a LEED Platinum building with the first large scale horizontal wind turbine in the city of Chicago;  etc., and has served as a member of the editorial team for the CTBUH guide Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Office Buildings, ASHRAE “Design Guide for Tall, Supertall, Megatall Building Systems”, and authored more than 30 papers, among other publications.

Megan Stringer

Zack Semke

Lindsay Schack

Tessa Bradley

Tessa Bradley is a co-principal and architect at Artisans Group, a Pacific Northwest-based sustainable architecture and planning firm. A tenacious, award-winning architect and an expert in building science and sustainability, she has designed some of the most energy-efficient homes in the country. Hundreds of her designs have been built and are scattered across the map in the Seattle, Olympia, and Portland areas and as far south as Austin, Texas.

Tessa advocates for pairing building science with innovative design to make sustainability both morally and aesthetically desirable. She’s seen excellent design — increased neighborhood density through sustainable, smart development — make communities more welcoming and resilient. She believes that a truly good design is good in a lot of ways: functionally, aesthetically, and relationally. 

A graduate of The Evergreen State College, Tessa is an accomplished speaker and has presented at numerous Passive House conferences around the country, at regional sustainability conferences, and at higher learning institutions, including The Evergreen State College, University of Oregon School of Architecture, Arizona State University, and Syracuse University. She’s been teaching workshops on Passive House building since 2010 and volunteers with regional organizations to boost community-level architecture and design improvements. 

Tessa was one of the first ten female CPHCs in the United States. She won the 2017 PHIUS Best Single-Family Project and is a three-time winner in the organization’s Best Project By A Young Professional category. Her designs have been featured in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Sunset Magazine, Dwell, Houzz, Design Boom, and in several Passive House and sustainable architecture books. 

Chris Nelder

Chris Nelder is an energy analyst and consultant who has written about energy and investing for more than a decade. He is the host of The Energy Transitions Show podcast, an author of two books on energy and investing, Profit from the Peak and Investing in Renewable Energy, and has appeared on BBC TV, Fox Business, CNN national radio, Australian Broadcasting Corp., CBS radio and France 24. He is based in California.

Lisa White

Lisa White is the Associate Director and a technical lead for Phius. She led the building certification review team for seven years and is an instructor for Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC®) training and WUFI® Passive energy modeling software training.

At Phius, White works on the development of new and existing professional training courses and has delivered professional training to more than 800 students. She has taught introductory and advanced seminars at professional conferences and universities nationwide, including guest lecturing at the Harvard Extension School. She was instrumental in the development of the Phius+ 2015 Climate-Specific Passive Building standard, followed by the 2018 and 2021 updates. Alongside standards development and research, White works directly with the Fraunhofer Institute of Building Physics to develop and implement new key features into the WUFI Passive energy modeling software that Phius uses for passive building certification.

Ms. White has written and co-authored many publications, the most recent being a cover-featured article in the ASHRAE High Performing Buildings magazine. She has presented at numerous national and international conferences on topics related to grid-friendly buildings, assessing resiliency and passive survivability, measured data for high performance and net zero buildings.

Nikki Kruger

Nikki Krueger is the Director of Marketing & Business Development for Therma-Stor’s
residential indoor air quality brand - Santa Fe freestanding dehumidifiers and whole house
ventilating dehumidifiers. She has been involved in the indoor air quality industry for over 20
years. She is a RESNET certified home energy rater, a member of the ACCA Manual Low Load
Homes (LLH) Advisory Committee, sits on the building envelope committee for the Spray
Polyurethane Foam Association, has completed the ACCA Residential Design for Quality
Installation Certification, and recently served on the 2024 National Green Building
Standard update committee.She educates builders, HVAC contractors, architects, engineers, crawl space contractors, and other professionals in the industry on the building science of ventilation and moisture control in buildings.

Grace & Corbett Lunsford

Michael Ingui

Michael is the President of Ingui Architecture – a highly collaborative, design-driven firm with extensive experience in residential, institutional, and commercial projects. He joined the firm in 1994 and was named Partner in 2000 before becoming president in 2023. Since then, the firm has become a leader in the US Passive House movement.

Michael firmly believes that creative and successful collaboration starts with forming a close relationship with each member of the team early and being inclusive to completion. In his practice, he takes care to respect the unique individual qualities of each client and home to create distinctive, personal projects. Outside the office, Michael is a painter. He allows his artistic process to inform his designs, blending art and architecture to create one-of-a-kind spaces.

He is also active in the Passive House community, and frequently shares knowledge gained through his work at conferences throughout the world. In 2019, Michael founded the Passive House Accelerator as an engine to increase awareness of Passive House and support the community of Passive House builders. In 2022, he cofounded Source 2050, a groundbreaking marketplace designed to bring high performance building components to all builders simply and effectively.

Emma Beck

Enrico Bonilauri

Jesse Hunt

Jesse Hunt is the Founder of Emergent Development, a real estate and consulting company dedicated to high-performance triple bottom-line projects. In every endeavor they seek to prove that energy performance, social benefit, and economic performance are not mutually exclusive. This approach creates intrinsically more resilient, healthy, and thus, valuable assets for their community. 

Before becoming a developer Jesse spent the last eight years as a sustainability professional in commercial architecture honing his understanding of building science, design, and construction. His previous experience includes custom woodworking in Vermont, commercial framing in Colorado, building potable water systems as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, and studying sustainable design and project management, in Austin, TX, Angers, France, and Freiburg, Germany.

Dan Whitmore

A long-time denizen of Seattle, WA, Dan Whitmore, CPHC, CPHB is a founding member of the development group Red Door Sustainable Housing, and is in the throes of re-launching his construction company Blackbird Builders.

In an effort to evolve building practice, he combines a passion for the politics of energy, sustainability and social justice with over 35 years of residential construction experience. Fifteen years ago he discovered the passive house methodology and has endeavored to make it standard practice for his and others’ work since. From single-family homes in Western Washington State to tall modular apartments in Brooklyn to a law school in Bhutan, Dan has built and/or consulted on over 20 certified projects, aggregating to over 400,000 ft2 of buildings.

Additionally, Dan is an instructor and curriculum developer for Phius’ Builder and Trades programs, having shared his knowledge and experience with over 1500 trainees. He also serves on the Boards of Phius and Passive House Northwest and is a constant advocate for regional advances in building practice. This advocacy sometimes takes him far from his home region.

David Schleicher

David started working with his dad’s framing crew when he was 12 years old. He watched and admired how the builders would interact with clients. How they helped the homeowner navigate the build process, and held their hands every step of the way. 

Even at a young age David knew he wanted to build homes differently. He felt like there was a need for homes to be built to a higher standard. From his frustration with “cookie-cutter” home design and “traditional” building techniques, he discovered Passive House, the strictest energy and quality standard for construction in the world. Focused on innovative framing techniques and superior building envelope, Passive House creates premium indoor air quality and up to a 90% reduction in energy usage for heating and cooling. He got into Passive House as a means to scientifically prove that the homes he was building were better, would last longer, require less maintenance, and enable healthier, happier lives for his customers. 

Most of what was being built in Kansas City was the opposite of David’s vision for the future of homebuilding, so in 2006 he founded Prairie Design Build (now Kala). David is a licensed General Contractor and Certified Passive House Consultant. His knowledge and experience in home building coupled with his drive and passion for building better has enabled him to pioneer the high performance home building industry in Kansas City. 

Andy Webre

Trey Farmer

David Moody

More To Come!