Brad Haubert

thumbnail image Brad Haubert is a home builder from central Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1993 from Juniata College, Brad entered his father’s home building business – joining the rest of the family. Haubert Homes is a mid-size “custom-production” builder with six offices throughout Pennsylvania. Brad recently earned the NAHB Certified Green Professional (CGP) designation, graduating with the inaugural class. He has begun building his first green home and is sharing his progress on it through this blog.
 
 

Boyce Thompson

thumbnail image Boyce Thompson is editorial director of the BUILDER group of magazines published by Hanley Wood, LLC. He also directs the company’s editorial council. In addition to BUILDER, Thompson serves as editorial director of Big Builder, Multifamily Executive, Digital Home, Developer, Affordable Housing Finance, and Apartment Finance Today magazines. Thompson has 26 years of experience writing and editing articles about home building, architecture, and retailing. He earned a M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri and holds a B.S. degree in English Literature from Northwestern University.
 
 

David Miles

thumbnail image David Miles created Miles Advertising 22 years ago in Denver, Colorado. Originally, the agency represented organizations in industries as diverse as high technology, education, and real estate. Since 1998, the firm has focused exclusively on real estate. The Milesbrand mission is to help new home builders and master plan community developers increase profitability by maximizing brand equity. Miles’ career spans more than three decades, during which he has served as president of two full service advertising agencies, and his own design firm. Miles has won numerous local, national, and international creative awards, including 81 Gold and more than 300 Silver Nationals from the NAHB.
 
 

Patrick Hendry

thumbnail image Patrick Hendry has been actively involved in the green building industry since 2004. He has spent the last five years researching and studying new technologies in the areas of renewable energy, environmental remediation, and environmental planning, and earned the LEED Accredited Professional designation from the U.S. Green Building Council. Currently, as Principal of Hendry Development Companies, a green building consultancy based in Newport Beach, Calif., he works with both developers and design teams. In March of 2008, Patrick’s passion for travel and desire for first-hand knowledge led him on a six-month journey around the world to study and document the green building revolution.
 
 

Scott Sedam

thumbnail image Scott Sedam is President of TrueNorth Development, an internationally-known consulting and training firm focused exclusively on the building industry. Now in its second decade with a staff of 8 field consultants, TrueNorth conducts consulting projects and training workshops with its more than 200 builder, supplier, and trade clients in a wide variety of specialties. During the recent industry downturn, TrueNorth’s LeanBuilding Blitz process is credited with saving clients seven-figure money, improving both product and process, without destroying supplier/trade relationships. A former VP with Pulte Corporation where he launched their quality initiatives in the 80's & 90's, Scott is a passionate advocate of the application of Lean Methods in the building industry as the one way to reduce cost without the collateral damage that inhibits long-term growth and success.
 
 

Ted Cushman

thumbnail image Ted Cushman attended Harvard College, served for four years as a U.S. Army paratrooper, and worked as a frame and finish carpenter for seven years before joining the staff of Hanley Wood's Journal of Light Construction (JLC), where he anchored the news desk for 4 years and edited feature articles. Ted now covers the home building industry as a freelance writer from his base in the hills of Western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, psychiatrist Cynthia Cushman and their three sons, Jack, Adrian, and Isaiah. In his 15-year career as a construction photo-journalist, Ted has earned a national reputation for insightful, accurate, and practical coverage of home building techniques, building science, and housing economics.
 
 

Patrick Duffy

thumbnail image Patrick Duffy has consulted for nearly 20 years for the country's leading home builders, land developers, investors, and lenders on residential, mixed-use, commercial, and industrial projects. As Managing Director of Consulting with Hanley Wood Market Intelligence, he maintained an alliance with the California Building Industry Association, issuing monthly press releases and analyses on statewide housing trends. Prior to that he worked with MarketPointe Realty Advisors, The Concord Group, Robert Charles Lesser & Co., and managed internal market research activities for a public home builder with operations in California, Arizona, and Nevada. As an expert on housing markets, Duffy has written extensively on the subject for newspapers, magazines, and Web sites.