BPAC is comprised of leading subject matter experts who oversee quality assurance processes and make technical decisions, as well as experienced staff members from across the industry.
GOVERNANCE
During the incubation phase of BPAC, oversight is being provided by:
Chris Ballard
Chris Ballard
Co-founder
Chris Ballard is President and CEO of Passive House Canada. He has a history of supporting environmental causes and sustainable community development. Prior to his engagement with PHC, he was Ontario’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, implementing the government’s plan for a clean environment and a sustainable economy. He also served as the Minister of Housing and the Minister responsible for Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy and he was a member of the Ontario Treasury Board. Chris’ political experience also includes being a municipal councillor. For 25 years Chris led a national public affairs firm with a focus on northern First Nations’ community sustainability and business development. He is a past Executive Director of the 60,000 member Consumers’ Association of Canada (Ontario) and a founding board member of the Consumers Council of Canada, where he still rejoined the Board in 2018. His leadership in journalism, communications and public affairs includes terms as President and Board member of the Public Affairs Association of Canada.
Craig Stevenson
Craig Stevenson
Co-founder
Craig is President of AUROS Group, which is a technology and consulting company based in Pittsburgh, PA. Craig is widely known for his role in establishing Pittsburgh as a leader in "Evidence-based Performance" for the built environment. Evidence-based Performance uses technology to bridge the gap between "hoping" a building is performing as designed to "knowing" a building is meeting its performance goals.
Craig’s many credentials and affiliations include the following: MBA, MS-MIS, CPHD/C, CPHC, LFA, LEED AP, WELL Faculty, WELL AP, RESET AP, Fitwel Ambassador, EcoDistricts AP, and DBIA.
With 25 years of construction experience, Craig is an expert estimator and is credentialed in virtually all known building performance standards. Using these skills, Craig ensures building owners have the data required to build and operate the highest performing buildings at the lowest possible costs.
Craig is co-author of the award-winning book, “The Power of Existing Buildings—Save Money, Improve Health and Reduce Environmental Impacts” and the much-referenced ASTM article, “Project Case Studies and the Lessons they Teach about Whole Building Envelope Air Leakage Testing.” Finally, Craig holds two United States’ patents in the field of data science for the built environment.
STAFF
Chris Petit
Chris Petit
Manager, Technical Services
Chris provides technical assistance to members of Passive House Canada and municipalities across Canada with the PHC Technical Services team. As a member of several standards committees, Chris collaborates to improve energy efficiency standards and help make high performance building the norm. Chris is a Passive House designer, tradesperson, trainer, and building certifier accredited by the Passive House Institute. He has provided design support and energy modeling services since 2008 with the Center for Sustainable Building Research, Clean Energy Coalition, Regenerative Design, and CertiPHIers Cooperative.
Cameron Laidlaw
Cameron Laidlaw
Team Lead, Technical Services
With a broad and deep. background in Passive House design, Cameron brings a wealth of technical expertise to the Passive House Canada team. Cameron has extensive knowledge of the Passive House Standard and its application in the Canadian context, leveraged from his years of experience as a Passive House Institute-accredited Certifier. He has provided consultancy and certification for many first-of-its-kind Passive House projects across Canada and around the world. Cameron has also worked with numerous North American manufacturers to design and certify products for Passive House Component Certification.
THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY COMMITTEE
Review the Energy Efficiency Committee’s Terms of Reference
Chris Petit
Chris Petit
Manager, Technical Services - Passive House Canada
Chris provides technical assistance to members of Passive House Canada and municipalities across Canada with the PHC Technical Services team. As a member of several standards committees, Chris collaborates to improve energy efficiency standards and help make high performance building the norm. Chris is a Passive House designer, tradesperson, trainer, and building certifier accredited by the Passive House Institute. He has provided design support and energy modeling services since 2008 with the Center for Sustainable Building Research, Clean Energy Coalition, Regenerative Design, and CertiPHIers Cooperative.
Cameron Laidlaw
Cameron Laidlaw
Team Lead, Technical Services - Passive House Canada
With a broad and deep. background in Passive House design, Cameron brings a wealth of technical expertise to the Passive House Canada team. Cameron has extensive knowledge of the Passive House Standard and its application in the Canadian context, leveraged from his years of experience as a Passive House Institute-accredited Certifier. He has provided consultancy and certification for many first-of-its-kind Passive House projects across Canada and around the world. Cameron has also worked with numerous North American manufacturers to design and certify products for Passive House Component Certification.
Mathew Bowers
Mathew Bowers
PHI-accredited Certifier, CPHD, CPHT - Rochester Passive House Consulting LLC
Matthew Bowers spent 6 years in the US Navy as a nuclear engineer and became interested in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. Once his tour was over, he attended Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) Mechanical Engineering Technology Program where he wanted to become a HVAC designer. While at RIT he learned of “homes so efficient they don’t need furnaces”. He then focused his career path on Passive House. He graduated with the highest honors in 2010. Since 2013 Bowers has worked as a Certified Passive House Consultant and Tradesman and HERS Rater. In 2017 Matt started his own Company - Rochester Passive House Consulting - specializing in high performance buildings. His company is currently consulting on all building use types; multifamily, schools, retail, commercial, municipal, mixed use, high rise, and single-family homes throughout North America. He helps developers and design teams achieve the necessary performance requirements to meet a projects climate action goal. He utilizes the Passive House Standard to lower a buildings carbon footprint through energy savings, reduced operational carbon and initial embodied carbon.
He has been featured in the Journal of Light Construction’s Energy Column under multiple topics including Blower Door Testing for extremely tight homes, Infrared Scanning, Blower Door Testing and Retrofitting airtightness and trouble spots for airtightness in new homes. He was the designer of Rochester’s 1st Certified Passive House in 2016 – his personal home.
Matt started certifying Passive House buildings in 2019 and is a Passive House Trainer for the Passive House Network and is experienced in a multitude of Passive House analysis tools, including thermal bridge analysis, embodied carbon, and creating long term building retrofit plans.
