#221 - Prefab Passive Houses with Craig Toohey
The Conscious Builder Show with Casey Grey
Release Date: 03/15/2023
#246 - A Healthier Home with Jen and Rusty Stout
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Husband and wife duo, Jen and Rusty Stout are co-founders of JS2 Partners Healthy Home Builders in Central Texas. In this episode they share what makes a healthy home, how to avoid mold problems, what chemicals to avoid and more. 1:54 Introduction 6:11 What is a Healthy Home 10:30 How to Improve your Home 22:35 Air and Vapour Barriers 27:50 Building Healther Homes Connect with Jen and Rusty: Instagram: Facebook: Facebook Group & Hashtag: #healthierhomesnation HEALTHIER HOMES Link tree: JS2 Partners Website: For more...
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#245 - Eliminating Toxins from your Home with Lisa Beres
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Lisa Beres is a renowned healthy home expert, Baubiologist, accomplished author, professional speaker, and Telly award-winning media personality. She specializes in helping busy individuals eliminate toxins from their homes through simple, practical solutions that improve health. Together with her husband, Ron, she co-founded The Healthy Home Dream Team and an online membership, The Healthy Babes Academy. Lisa is the author of "My Body, My House," a children's book, and co-author of "Just GREEN It! Simple Swaps to Save the Planet & Your Health." Lisa has made notable appearances on...
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#244 - Passive House & Certification - Interview With Mike Anderson
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Mike Anderson is the CEO and Design Leader of Passive Design Solutions. Drawing on his combined background in architecture and physics, Mike leads a design production team and has worked on over 300 Net Zero Ready projects (100 of them passive house) throughout North America over 10 years, establishing him as one of the nation’s foremost passive house experts. In this episode, Mike talks about solar hot water versus solar panel with heat pumps, where Passive House certification makes sense, and how larger scale projects are benefitting from Passive House. 1:27 Intro into passive house ...
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#243 - Breaking Through with Contractor Evolution Host Benji Carlson
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Benji Carlson is the host of Contractor Evolution and head of content at Breakthrough Academy a business providing contractors with the management systems and processes to build sustainable profits while getting the spare time you deserve. Benji shares how blinders can be extremely important as a business owner, what the real problems are that contractors are dealing with and how there are way more opportunities in the blue collar world than people think. Get Breakthrough Academy's Annual Strategic Planning Template, FREE for Conscious Builder Listeners 3:00 Intro 9:18...
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#242 - Interview with Mentor and Leader Elinor Moshe
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Elinor Moshe is an ambitious and driven thought-leader, mentor, best-selling author, award-winning podcast host and businesswoman. She’s the founder of The Construction Coach, with the purpose of enabling people to focus on themselves and defy the status quo by providing mentoring, training and coaching. Elinor discusses the importance of defining success for ourselves and touches on the power of mentorship, understanding the rules of the game and making sure you’re playing to win the game. 1:54 Introduction 5:49 What is a Successful Career 7:20 Challenges...
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#241 - Interview with Author and Marketing Expert David Meerman Scott
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David Meerman Scott is an author, speaker and marketing expert. His latest book Fanocracy is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller focusing on creating an organization that puts the needs and wishes of fans ahead of every other priority. David covers a lot of topics including writing a book and how it can help you, what strategy works if you’re only focused on a local demographic, where you should start if you’re at ground zero and why websites are still extremely important in today’s market. 3:00 Introduction 6:30 Write your own Book 14:00 Self Publishing? 21:30 Youtube...
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#240 - Strategic Website Design for Builders and General Contractors with Katlyn Slocum
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Katlyn is the owner and creative director of Katlyn Slocum Design a boutique web design agency. Her agency specializes in building high-converting websites for builders and contractors to help them meet their business and financial goals. We chat about what every website needs, what to look out for if you’re designing your own website and how to create a strategy to get you the clients you want and deserve. It’s a noisy world out there but websites are still very relevant and important to the success of your business. 1:11 Intro 5:52 Search Engine Optimization 13:28 How to get...
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#239 - Commercial to Residential with Business Owner and Founder Jeff Sawyer
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Jeff Sawyer is the owner and founder of TruNORTH Inc, a Remodeling and commercial development company based in Connecticut. Jeff shares his unwavering focus on building meaningful connections. 1:37 Intro 5:00 Commercial to Residential 9:07 Pricing of Residential 14:35 Biggest Challenges to Overcome 18:27 How to find Skilled Labour 22:11 What's Exciting for the Future Connect with TruNORTH: Website: Instagram: Facebook: For more from The Conscious Builder go to: The Conscious Builder Website: The Conscious Builder...
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#238 - Growing your Construction Business with Parm Bhangal
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Parm Bhangal is a multi award winning entrepreneur who specializes in cost reduction in the construction industry. In this episode he shares some tips on how to grow and scale your construction businesses. 2:10 introduction 10:00 Managing your clients Expectations 20:27 The Process of starting your construction Business 25:30 How much money do you want? 30:28 Challenges Connect with Parm Bhangal: Linktree: For more from The Conscious Builder go to: The Conscious Builder Website: The Conscious Builder Academy: Podcast: YouTube: Instagram: Linkedin: ...
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#237 - Employees Incentives Over Pay Raises with Michael Fortinberry Co-founder of Protiv
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Michael Fortinberry is the Co-Founder and COO at Protiv, a company set on revolutionizing the way workers and companies collaborate, putting control back into the workers' hands and transforming the broken model of hourly compensation. In this episode, Michael shares insights into how Protiv will help you motivate your employees and speed up your projects. 1:12 Intro 7:45 How it works 14:55 Challenges 26:30 What's coming up in the future More about Michael Fortinberry: Website: Protiv: Youtube: Linkedin: For more from The Conscious Builder...
info_outlineCraig Toohey directs Business Development at Collective Carpentry, a custom home wood product-based prefabrication company in Invermere, British Columbia focusing on super-insulated assemblies, low carbon materials, and off-site Passive House construction.
Craig has been certified by both the Passive House Institute and PHIUS, and currently works remotely from Europe where he is closely connected to the European industry for prefabricated Passive House construction.
Craig has worked with Passive House practitioners across North America, using his background in sustainable business strategy and technical product sales to simplify, communicate, and put into action the solutions that developers, architects, and builders need to meet their business challenges, regulatory requirements, and their own ambitions for providing effective radical building efficiency and carbon mitigation solutions.
This episode is all about prefab construction. We chat about when it’s best to use Prefab, how Collective Carpentry is achieving Passive House Certification, how the industry is going to benefit from technology and so much more.
3:33 What got you into Pre Fab?
9:05 Getting to Scale
20:02 Wall section details
26:09 Biggest challenge in the industry
For more from Craig: https://www.instagram.com/collective_carpentry/?hl=en
Website: https://collectivecarpentry.com/