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Be a Leader in Sustainability!
Contribute to High-Performance Building Apprenticeship Standard
April 23rd, from 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86405329997

Training & Events

Basics of High Performance Building –
April 21 & 30, 2025

• April 21, 2025 & April 30, 2025
• Time: 3:30pm to 7:30pm
• Location: Manchester, VT.
• Address: Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
  280 Depot St
  Manchester, VT 05255
• Instructor: Junio Anthes-Moody, Instructor
  • Sign up ► here

Crew Leadership Development – Mentoring Skills to Develop/Retain a Workforce –
April 22 & 29, 2025

• April 22, 2025 & April 29, 2025
• Time: 3:30pm to 7:30pm
• Location: White River Junction, VT.
• Address: Hartford Area Career and Technology Center
  1 Gifford Rd
  White River Junction, VT 05001
• Instructor: Guy Payne, SEON Executive Director
  • Sign up ► here

Crew Leadership Development – Mentoring Skills to Develop/Retain a Workforce –
May 15 & 22, 2025

• May 15, 2025 & May 22, 2025
• Time: 3:30pm to 7:30pm
• Location: Manchester, VT.
• Address: Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
  280 Depot St
  Manchester, VT 05255
• Instructor: Guy Payne, SEON Executive Director
  • Sign up ► here

Our Members – In Action

The frame for our high performance ADU design went up this week! Air-tight 2×8 construction with 2×12 rafters on a 12×20 footprint.

► Read more at Seed Design / Build

We’re proud to share that a recent Unity Homes Nano has been awarded Green Builder Media’s Green Home of the Year: Small Footprint. With a dream of owning a small home in Vermont, and upcoming plans to retire, homeowners Angie and Matt found the Unity Nano to be just the right choice for them.

► Read more at Bensonwood

Are you looking to tackle a home project this spring? WW Building Supply in Wilmington and Newfane have you covered? We offer in home consultations to help you with any project big or small!! Call us today: (802) 327-8521

► Read more at WW Building Supply

Sales is a process many people find stressful, but it doesn’t have to be. What if sales were seen as a service to a potential customer, where the end of the sales process (the first three conversations) resulted in the customer having a clear next step, whether that step involves working with you or not?

► Read more at HELM Construction Solutions

Damp basements, rim boards, and tricky wall cavities need insulation that forms a perfect seal—that’s where spray foam shines. This powerful, spray-on solution expands to fill gaps, blocking out moisture and improving energy efficiency.

► Read more at Farnum Insulators

As we wrap up Women in Construction Week, we want to take a moment to once again highlight the incredible women on our team—including our powerhouse architectural consultants. Their expertise, dedication, and passion continue to shape the industry and inspire the next generation. Thank you for all that you do!

► Read more at Sierra Pacific Windows

Interesting Links

• ► New US Home Construction Rebounds After Storm-Ridden Month
• ► Mayor unveils $2B ‘largest single investment in housing in Philadelphia history’
• ► Cox ‘hopes President Trump is right’ on tariffs as housing advocates worry over rising costs
• ► The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index is designed to gauge and track the pulse of the single-family housing market
• ► Builder Confidence Falls on Cost Uncertainty
• ► Prices and Trends in the U.S. Framing Lumber Market
• ► Tariff Pause a Relief for Vermonters Scrambling to Prepare

Events

• Multifamily Passive House – The Passive House NetworkThis course is an in-depth look at basic strategies for delivering successful all-electric decarbonized Passive House apartment buildings teams want to build, and families want to live in. As we push to all-electric decarbonized multifamily buildings, designed to the Passive House Standard offers many benefits to building owners and occupants alike, from lower operating costs to greater durability, occupant comfort, indoor air quality, and storm resilience.

  Wednesday, March 26, 2025
  3pm – 5pm

  $145.00

• Intro to AUTOCAD – YestermorrowThis course is designed for students who have limited or no experience with AutoCAD drafting software. Each online session will be 3 hours held twice per week across three weeks for a total of 6 sessions. Each session will begin with a step-by-step tutorial followed by in-class exercises where students will develop a sample architectural floor plan. Students will leave with a fundamental understanding of initial drawing setup, basic 2D drafting in Model Space, formatting in Paper Space, and printing/plotting. $260 – $500

  Starts: April 1, 2025 5:30pm
  Ends: April 17, 2025 8:30pm

• 2025 Better Building by Design Conference – Efficiency VermontThe 2025 conference theme is 2030 on the Horizon: Assessing Vermont’s Vision Versus Reality. Vermont has two ambitious goals with 2030 deadlines: make all new construction net-zero and reduce greenhouse gas pollution to 40% below 1990 levels.

  SEON members are available for a group discount for only the 2-day event. April 2 & 3, 2025

• Communication on the Job Site – HELM
  April 23, 2025
  5-7 pm Details and registrationCo-sponsors: Vermont Works for Women and Mathes Hulme Builders
  Location: 446 Marlboro Road, Brattleboro, VT

Thank you, Members

• 475 High Performance Building Supply – Nationwide

• All Seasons Construction Corp – Springfield, VT

• Andrew Dey (individual owner) – Walpole, NH

• Apple Tree Builders – Southern, VT

• Bluetime Collaborative – Brattleboro, VT

• Bob Rueter Foundation (individual owner) – Turners Falls, MA

• Building-Wright – Northhampton, MA

• Delta Energy Works (DEW) – Heat Pump Systems – Brattleboro, VT

• Duane Case (individual owner) – Bellows Falls, VT

• Earthshare Construction – Lebanon, NH

• Efficiency Vermont – Winooski, VT

• EnviroProfit, LLC (lighting) – West Wardsboro, VT

• Farnum Insulators – Dummerston, VT

• Friends of the Sun – Brattleboro, VT

• GPI Construction – Brattleboro, VT

• Helm Construction Solutions – Brattleboro and Montpelier, VT

• HempStone, LLC – Hatfield, MA

• Integrated Solar Applications Corporation (“ISA”) – Brattleboro, VT

• JA Saccoccio Workshop, PLLC – Brattleboro, VT

• Junio Anthes-Moody (individual owner) – Vermont

• Mathes Hulme Builders – Brattleboro, VT

• Mindel & Morse Builders – Brattleboro, VT

• Nate Gusakov (individual owner) – Vermont

• Owl’s Head Builders – Guilford, VT

• SEED Design / Build – West Townshend, VT

• Shelterwood – Waitsfield, VT

• Sierra Pacific Windows – Nationwide

• Snowdog Construction – Norwich, VT

• Steve Sebastian (individual owner) – Vermont

• Sustainable Design – Dorset, VT

• Tim Lillis Builder – Bellows Falls, VT

• Tom McLoughlin (individual owner) – Brattleboro, VT

• Unity Homes – Walpole, NH

• VSECU – Brattleboro, VT

• Wadsworth Design | Build – Stratton, Mount Snow & Okemo, VT

• Windham Regional Career Center – Brattleboro, VT

• Wright Builders – Durham, NH

• WW Building Supply – Newfane, VT