Mark Kelley
Founder, President, and Engineer email Mark

Mark Kelley, P.E., is a founding member of the Hickory Consortium. He is also the founder of Building Science Engineering, begun in 1989 with the goal of bringing the building industry and the building research community into closer accord with energy-conscious, sustainable design. As a registered professional engineer, Mark specializes in mechanical engineering including building systems, energy, moisture and health issues. He is a nationally recognized authority on building energy efficiency, whole building integrated design and sustainable construction. He was the consulting energy engineer for the Hickory Consortium's Elm Street, Cambridge Cohousing, and Erie-Ellington projects.

Mark was the founder and chair of the Buildings for a Sustainable America Outreach Program-a joint ASES, PSIC and U. S. Department of Energy program to alert participants in the building process to the potential for cost-effective passive solar applications in buildings. Mark has served as Chairman of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), Buildings Division and on the Board of Directors of ASES. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Passive Solar Industries Council. As a voting member of ASHRAE SSPC 90.2 (The ASHRAE Energy Conservation Standard for Residential Construction), he chairs the Systems Panel, which deals with computer compliance and societal issues. He has been Chairman of many technical conferences including Solar '88 (the Annual Meeting of the American Solar Energy Society, held at MIT) and The Thirteenth National Passive Solar Conference and Technical Chair of The 21st National Passive Solar Conference 1995. He was Co-chair of the first National Passive Solar Design Competition in 1980 and Technical Program Chairman of the 1993 National Passive Solar Conference.

Mark has served as sustainability consultant on a wide range of advanced building projects including the US Dept. of Energy Building America Program, the Conservation Law Foundation headquarters expansion, Primex (NH Public Risk Management Exchange) addition (LEED Gold project), the award winning Erie-Ellington Low income Housing Community, Bowdoin Outdoor Leadership Center, the Lebanon Food COOP supermarket, the Massachusetts Audubon Wellfleet Sanctuary building, the award winning Chewonkie Nature Center, and the Maine Audubon Society Headquarters building. He was the technical coordinator for the development of Energy Crafted Homes, a multi-state, multi-utility collaborative project to create a voluntary standard for conservation and passive heating and cooling of new homes.

Mark has provided energy and mechanical engineering consulting on literally thousands of single family, multifamily and small commercial buildings. He has also consulted to government and national research laboratories, to energy groups, building organizations, and architectural firms. His clients include: Oak Ridge National Laboratories; The National Renewable Energy Laboratory; American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy; The Passive Solar Industries Council; Public Service Co. of New Mexico; Conservation Services Group; Oaktree Development; the Arizona State Energy Office; Acorn Structures Inc.; Applied Resources Group; Arrowstreet Inc.; E. Chapman Architect; B. Coldham Architect; Citizen's Energy Corp; The Cambridge Sustainability Demonstration Project; S. Dunbar Architect; E Source Inc.; Energy Investment Inc.; Environmental Building News; Fair Share Development Corp.; J. Ives Architects; The Massachusetts Gas Council; NAHB Research Foundation; Nashawtuc Architects; New England Power Service Co.; NYSTAR Program; Northeast Utilities; Standish Care Co.; J. Sterling Architects; Theodore & Theodore Architects; Todd Lee-Clark-Rozas Assoc. Inc.; Gordon Tully Architect ; Van Dam & Renner Architects; West River Communications; Carol Wilson Architect; the U.S. Department of Energy; and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mark is LEED certified.

Bruce Hampton
Architect

Bruce Hampton, partner of Elton + Hampton Architects, is the Hickory Consortium's prime architect for prototype development in the Department of Energy's Building America Initiative. Elton +Hampton Architects is a full service architectural firm located in Allston, MA specializing in community based, energy efficient, multi-family residential and commercial projects. With work in new construction and rehab, E+HA has completed award winning resource and energy conserving work throughout the Northeast. Recent projects include The Family Center, Somerville, MA, Reviviendo Housing in Lawrence, MA; library and Suffolk Street housing for Chelsea Neighborhood Housing; and Casa Maribel transitional housing for domestic violence victims in Chelsea, MA.

Bruce's previous work includes Erie Ellington Homes, in Dorchester, MA for the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation, and Cambridge Cohousing, an ambitiously sustainable complex of 41 units and community facilities in Cambridge, MA. Both the Erie Ellington Homes Project and the Elm Street Townhouses have been awarded medals for excellence in residential energy efficient design for a cold climate by the National Association of Home Builders. Cambridge Cohousing garnered a Silver Medal for multifamily residences in a cold climate and was named one of the top 10 exemplary environmentally designed projects by the Committee on the Environment of the American Institute of Architects for Earth Day 1998.

E+HA's current work with non-profit community development groups includes Back of the Hill CDC, Madison Park CDC, the United Residents in Academy Homes II, all in Boston, MA area; the Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development; the Lawrence CommunityWorks; the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance; the Northeast Denver Housing Center; Chelsea Neighborhood Housing Services; and the Cheshire Housing Trust of Keene, NH. All current E+HA residential projects are Energy Star ® Homes. Bruce has 30 years of experience in contracting and architecture. For almost 20 years, he worked with Acorn Structures, Inc. in Concord, MA, first as estimator and then as project architect in residential design, doing multi-family projects, specialized structures, and single family homes for domestic and international markets. Here, he was responsible for an average of two multi-family projects and twenty custom single-family projects in any given year. Since 1982, he has also been practicing independently in custom single family residential and multi-family design.

He is broadly experienced in manufactured and modular housing and consults with other architects, municipalities, companies, and manufacturers. A LEED certified architect, he holds workshops and presents widely on greening affordable housing.

Bruce is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the US Green Building Council. He is registered in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. He is a competitive cyclist and former short-track speedskater, and will always phone his HC colleague Jesa Damora when there is black ice on Bare Hill Pond.

Jennifer Pinck
Construction Management Consultant

Jennifer Pinck provides construction management consulting services to building owners and developers with an emphasis on design, value engineering, bid award and/or negotiation, and construction oversight.

Roles for recent clients include: Mattapan Community Development Corporation - development director; Boston Community Capital - managing design and construction process for move to new offices in Dudley Square; The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation - Owner's Representative on the Erie Ellington Homes project, 50 units of new, energy-efficient and healthy affordable housing; Paige Academy - Owner's Representative during the historic restoration of and addition to an existing building into new school facilities in Fort Hill, Roxbury; and Dudley Economic Empowerment Partners - Owner's Representative on a 20,000 sf commercial office building.

The Boston Central Artery/Tunnel project occupied Jennifer's time for 4 years in the '90s. As senior mitigation manager, she managed a staff of 23. She designed, implemented and monitored programs to manage construction impacts during all phases of utility relocation, highway and tunnel construction. She also managed an extensive outreach program to ensure public support and awareness among commercial, residential, and industrial interests. In the '80s, she worked for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority as a construction manager on the Boston Harbor Project, a court-ordered 10 year, $6 billion wastewater treatment facility, where she directed the activities of the Engineering and Construction Management consultants engaged in the day-to-day management of the project. Before that, she spent 9 years in the field for G.B.H. Macomber on large commercial construction and historic renovations.

She has broad experience in planning, design, construction and multiple contract management, as well as procurement, environmental requirements, and industrial/government relations. She has conducted numerous public hearings and presentations to industry, community, and educational organizations. She holds a Boston ABC Building License (all classes), is a committee member of the Boston Community Capital Loan Fund, and a vice-chair on the Board of Zoning Appeals, Cambridge, MA. She holds her MBA from Simmons, has studied Public Construction Law at Northeastern University, and was graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Classics concentration. She speaks fluent German, passable French, and likes to draw.

Steve Stuntz
Modular Building Consultant

Steve Stuntz is president of the Greentech Housing Company, a modular housing manufacturer in Worcester, MA. Greentech incorporates best practices in modular housing, developed after decades of practice and extensive research of modular manufacturers both here and abroad. Steve has been in the manufactured housing industry since 1979, beginning with Acorn Structures, a high-end housing company where he caused trouble for 16 years. He had a variety of positions there during which time the company from $2.5 to $16 million in sales. He became President and Treasurer, responsible for all manufacturing activities, trade union contracts, purchasing, sales, personnel, manufacturing engineering, and computer operations. Before this, he was CFO of Daystar, a division of Exxon, manufacturing and marketing active solar systems through a dealer network.

With an SB from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Steve has also worked for Teradyne and Cramer Electronics. He has been a member of the Treasurers Club of Boston since 1979 and a corporator for Emerson Hospital in Concord, MA since 1995; Acton Water District Commissioner since 1987; and was Concord Museum Treasurer for 8 years. He continues to maintain an active role with MIT as part of the Steering Committee, mentoring students there.

Steve maintains Acorn Business Coaching, a consulting company directed at business executives. He was one of the founders of the Hickory Consortium. He is dedicated to social justice programs, especially the training of inner city residents in the construction fields.

Paul Raymer
Engineer

Paul has been working with ventilation systems and the construction industry since 1977. He has developed more than a dozen products and holds a patent on the Airetrak™ control. He has taught a number of ventilation courses to a wide variety of students, from weatherization professionals to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is presently serving as a ventilation/product consultant to two of the Building America teams and is working with the Harvard School of Public Health to produce a cross disciplinary symposium on public health issues and residential design. He is a full member of ASHRAE (the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers).

Since 1998 he has been President of Tamarack Technologies, Inc. which he founded with Mark Bernfeld in 1993. TTi has played a key role in offering solutions to the critical problems in IAQ control and will continue to do so in the coming years. The company has three primary product groups: the sunroom products, the residential ventilation products, and weatherization and air quality products. It is in this latter area where TTi will concentrate its new product development efforts in the coming years. Paul has developed and brought to market a range of ventilation systems from fans to controls, and he has been solving comfort issues for twenty-five years. He is one of the original members of the Hickory Consortium Building America Team and is a full member of ASHRAE.

Ash Richards
Construction Consultant

Ashley Richards is the owner/manager of Richards & Company, general contractors and construction managers, located in Yarmouth, Maine. Ashley has been building energy efficient housing since 1978. All of his projects incorporate sustainably harvested, enviromentally friendly and green products. Richards & Company has constructed more than 75 custom homes and completed thousands of renovation jobs in Southern Maine. As a project manager, Ashley has completed projects for several non-profits in the area including the Libra Foundation, Peoples Regional Opportunity Program (PROP) and Laudholm Trust trustees for the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Mr. Richards subscribes to the notion that the successful completion of a construction project requires more than the technical expertise needed for the proper installation of sticks and bricks. He places equal importance on the scheduling and financial management of the project. He regularly attends seminars sponsored by the major trade associations and others in order to bring the highest level of expertise to Richards & Company projects. Ashley has been an invited guest speaker and panelist at industry sponsored seminars. He is a Certified Intuit Master Builder Pro-Advisor, consulting and training others in construction management technology.

Mr. Richards has served as a director, committee chair and executive committee member for the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI). He founded the Maine Chapter of NARI and served as chapter president for three years. He is currently a licensed Residential Energy Auditor in the State of Maine, is a member of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Ashley received his BS from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a certified high school ice hockey official and an avid outdoorsman.

Mr. Richards consults with modular manufacturers and builders on quality and performance. Current clients include the Greentech Housing Company and the Home Store. He is working on a manual for modular homebuilders that is a comprehensive guide for erecting Energy Star compliant modular homes.

Gail Vittori
Building Materials Consultant

Gail is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, an internationally-acclaimed non-profit design firm dedicated to sustainable planning, design and demonstration where she has worked since 1979. The Center strives to link a region's human and natural resources to fulfill the needs of the built environment within a framework of ecological restoration and healthful environments while strengthening local economic development initiatives.

Since 1993, Gail has coordinated the Center's Sustainable Design in Public Buildings Program, including serving as Sustainable Design Consultant for the Pentagon Renovation Program, City of Austin Downtown Homeless Shelter and 911 Emergency Management Center (with DMJM), preparing sustainable materials specifications for the U.S. Department of Interior Modernization Project, developing sustainability guidelines for the Austin Independent School District (with Earthly Ideas), revising the Texas General Services Commission's Architecture & Engineering Guidelines, and initiating the original concept for the City of Austin's Green Builder Program and developing the program in partnership with City staff. Additionally, Gail is a founding member of the Healthy Building Network and collaborates with HBN on several national demonstration projects. She speaks widely on the nature of building materials and developments in materials sustainability.

Gail was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design from 1998-1999 and studied Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Pliny Fisk
Building Technologies Consultant

Pliny co-founded the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in 1975 as an independent nonprofit organization while an Assistant professor at the University of texas/Austin's School of Architecture and Planning. Along with a handful of other emerging nonprofits at the time, CMPBS' mission was to concentrate on the interrelationships between the built and natural environments with a focus on sustainable community and local economic development. Since the Center's inception, Pliny has had a pivotal role in moving this agenda forward in four areas: architecture, master planning, participatory gaming and quantitative methods.

Under his direction, CMPBS' body of work reflects the importance of recognizing the international protocols of life cycle assessment, geographic spatial analysis, and the footprint representation of sustainable technology as not limited to purely technical methods but as a basis for public and client awareness and understanding. This new interpretation and visualization framework accepts interoperability between diverse disciplines as key in the creation of iconographic sequences, pictorial computer modeling, and infinite scaling procedures that literally interconnect the actions taken at the home level to those at a national or international level.

Representative work includes the co-development of BaseLineGreen™, a modeling tool used to establish the environmental and economic baselining of generic building types. CMPBS has used this methodology in several green specification projects including for the Pentagon Renovation Program (Washington, D.C.), the NIST EpiCenter (Bozeman, MT), UT/Houston Health Science Center (Houston, TX), and the City of Seattle Green Building initiatives (Seattle, WA); Architecture projects include the internationally published Advanced Green Builder Demonstration and the Laredo Demonstration Farm; and Master planning projects totaling more than 11,000 acres of land using the Center's ecological land planning procedure, Eco-BalancePlanning™.

Pliny is the recipient of the Bruce Goff Chair for Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma (2001), the Hearin Distinguished Fellow for Architecture and Planning at Mississippi State University (2002); and the Passive Solar Pioneer Award from the American Solar Energy Society (2000). He is widely published in academic and popular press. Pliny studies at the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded B.Arch, M.Arch, and M.L.Arch. His close association with Ian McHarg during his graduate studies guided him to concentrate on ecological land planning. In addition, Pliny holds certificates for his studies in systems sciences and permaculture.

Mike Mullens
Building Technologies & Testing Consultant
Michael Mullens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida and is the Principal Investigator for the UCF Housing Constructability Lab. Dr. Mullens has been a UCF faculty member for twelve years, teaching senior capstone engineering design and concurrent engineering. His research is focused on the introduction of advanced production technologies into the U.S. homebuilding industry. He has been a PI on the Department of Energy’s Building America housing research program and its predecessor, the Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing program, since their inception. He currently supports three of the five Building America research consortia and has been successful working in this multi-year, multi-partner, multi-disciplinary research environment. His research has spanned the industry, involving HUD Code, modular and panelized homebuilding technologies. For the last five years, his research has focused on modular homebuilding. Projects have involved new factory design, lean manufacturing concepts, simulation modeling, quality systems, factory floor information systems and set and finish processes on the construction site. He recently began a new project aimed at streamlining production processes in precast concrete panel construction.

Dr. Mullens received a BS in Industrial Engineering at Mississippi State University in 1973 and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1976 and 1979 respectively. Prior to his current position, he served two years as an Operations Research Analyst with Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors in Detroit and over 10 years as a engineering consultant, primarily with Coopers & Lybrand, in the areas of manufacturing, warehousing, and material handling. In the latter position he served a wide variety of industries ranging from missile assembly to boxed beef production and was active in the design of numerous successful manufacturing and warehousing installations. He is a Senior Member of IIE and SME, and a member of ASEE and INFORMS.