Sandra Adomatis

Sandra is an appraiser, instructor, author, and course developer.  The Appraisal Institute published her book, “Residential Green Valuation Tools” in April 2014.  She spearheaded the development of the AI Residential and Commercial Green and Energy Efficient Addendums. In July 2016, the Appraisal Institute presented her the Outstanding Service Award. She currently is the 2022 vice president of the Appraisal Institute. Her one-year term as vice president will be followed by one year each as president-elect in 2023 and president in 2024. 

Sandra is a consultant to builders, governmental agencies, utility companies, real estate agents, and energy organizations. She speaks on the valuation of green features at events such as GreenBuild, IBS, EEBA, ACI, The White House Conference Center, National Association of REALTORS®, National Association of Home Builders, and Appraisal Institute Conferences. 

She was on the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team that produced in 2015, “Selling into the Sun: Price Premium Analysis of a Multi-State Dataset of Solar Homes” and “Appraising Into The Sun.”  You will find her webinar, “6 Things You Didn’t Know About Appraising Green Home Features,” as part of the Online NAR Green Courses.

Sandra authored the study, "What is Green Worth? Unveiling High-Performance Home Premiums in Washington, D.C.,” funded by the District Department of Energy and sponsored by Institute for Market Transformation.

Scott Doyle

Scott Doyle is the Technical Director of Quality Assurance and Training for RESNET. Since joining the industry as a HERS Rater in 2003, Scott has performed inspections and energy modeling on thousands of homes across a variety of construction types and climate zones. In 2007 he became a RESNET certified Quality Assurance Designee. As Primary QAD for multiple HERS Providers, he oversaw and mentored a large team of Quality Assurance Designees and Delegates. As an instructor, Scott has trained hundreds of Energy Professionals across the U.S. using a variety of formats including field, classroom, and e-learning. He has been directly involved in industry standard development through committee appointments and has served as a volunteer subject matter expert for multiple industry certification exams.

Philip Fairey

Philip Fairey has been a member of the RESNET Board of Directors since 1998 and has served as President of RESNET twice, once from 2004-2006 and once from 2008-2010. Philip is currently a member of RESNET’s Standards Development Committee 300 and is Chairman of RESNET’s Standards Management Board. 

Philip has more than 40 years of experience in building science research at the FSEC Energy Research Center where he has served as Deputy Director of the FSEC Energy Research Center since 1990. He has had primary responsibility for more than 30 major building science research contracts totaling more than $14 million. Philip has extensive expertise in combined heat and moisture transfer in buildings; heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems; building energy efficiency; humidity and moisture control; indoor air quality (IAQ); energy codes and standards; computer simulation and modeling; and building energy-efficiency rating systems. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed technical papers and more than 100 technical reports.

Philip is also an active member of ASHRAE where he currently serves as a voting member of SSPC 62.2 on Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings and SSPC 90.2 on Energy Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings.

Les Lazareck

Les Lazareck is a building performance expert focused on maximizing the comfort, health, safety, energy efficiency and durability of new and existing residential and commercial buildings based on building science through his company Home Energy Connection, LLC founded in 2007. Across the country, Les provides training for RESNET Home Energy Raters (HERS), the Building Performance Institute (BPI) and is an approved instructor for Nevada Energy Auditor licensure. He also provides IECC, ENERGY STAR and DOE Zero Energy Ready Home verification, serves on Nevada’s energy code subcommittee and is a certified International Code Council (ICC) Residential Energy Inspector/Plans Examiner. Appointed by Governor Sisolak to Nevada’s Clean Energy Fund Board. Les earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on alternative energy design and has lived in a net zero electric home for over 14 years.

Patrick Nielsen

Patrick Nielsen is a Global Technical Products Manager at Broan-NuTone. At the 2021 RESNET Conference he was the speaker for  Efficient Whole House Ventilation for Healthy IAQ. The session description is as follows: Today, people are more concerned than ever about healthy indoor air. The good news is we can achieve both healthy IAQ and still have an airtight, efficient dwelling. With today’s wide range of ventilation solutions, especially whole house, we can eliminate harmful pollutants such as particulates, VOCs and mold-causing excess humidity. There are a variety of ventilation solutions available to fit most any situation, climate zone and budget. After a short review of how homes have changed in recent years to make healthy indoor air more challenging as well as how codes and standards are evolving, this session will focus on the options for whole house ventilation–exhaust, supply and balance. Opportunities with energy efficient HRVs and ERVs as well as installation options will be given special emphasis.

Robby Schwarz

Robby Schwarz has been a champion of applied building science for over 25 years. He Founded BUILDTank, Inc. in 2020 to be a practical building think tank whose mission is to use what is learned by applying building science in the field to affect meaningful change in the construction industry. To chase issues that hold the industry back and generate ideas and innovations that move sustainable building into mainstream building. Robby is a sought-after trainer and routinely presents at RESNET®, EEBA, the Colorado Chapter of the IECC®, Educode, and local Home Builders Associations, Colorado Energy Office, Xcel Energy and more. Robby works with industry partners and builders offering a complete set of research, training, consulting, energy modeling, code and program compliance, inspections and diagnostics services designed to help clients build homes that perform. www.btankinc.com