In This Issue

• Message from the Executive Director
• Upskill Your Team
• Our Members – Recharging Our Spotlight
• Interesting Links
• Events
• Thank You, Members

From SEON’s Executive Director

Too Busy to Train? This One Saves You Time on the Next Job

Builders are busy. We get it. If you are building in Vermont right now, you already have more work than hours — and the last thing you want is a class you think slows you down.

This isn’t that kind of training.

Build It Right the First Time

If you’ve ever said, “I don’t have time for training,” this is probably the one that’s worth it.

HPB 101: The Basics of High Performance Building is designed for working builders who want fewer callbacks, fewer moisture surprises, and fewer “why is this failing?” moments — on real jobs, in real Vermont conditions. It’s designed for working builders to learn the concepts of how water, air, and thermal energy moves through home; the criticality of construction documents; and appropriate mechanical systems.

This is a two-part, hands-on course that focuses on the stuff that actually costs you time and money when it goes wrong:

• Air leaks you didn’t see coming
• Moisture problems that show up after you leave the site
• Assemblies that look fine on paper but fail in the field
• Systems that fight each other instead of working together

What you’ll walk away with

• A clear way to think like air and water — so you can predict problems before they happen
• Practical strategies for airtightness, flashing, WRBs, and moisture control
• A whole-building mindset that connects enclosure, HVAC, ventilation, comfort, and durability
• Tools you can use immediately — not “someday when you have time”

This course is how builders learn high performance concepts and strategies to build the right way given our climate and avoid expensive mistakes.

Basics of High Performance Building

Two-Part Training | Taught by Junio Anthes-Moody

📅 March 3 & 10, 2026
🕒 1–5 pm
📍 VFW, Manchester Center, VT
👉 Sign up here

You’re already building every day. This course helps you build smarter — with fewer problems chasing you down the road.

Onward and upward until next month,

Guy Payne, Executive Director

More Training to Upskill Your Team

Water, Air & Thermal Continuous Control Layers

📅 March 5 & 12, 2026 | ⏰ 3:30–7:30 pm
📍 Windham Regional Career Center, Brattleboro, VT

• Classroom + hands-on training
• Water, air, and thermal control layers
• Wall assemblies, drainage planes, air barriers, exterior insulation, and window integration
• Prerequisite: Basics of High Performance Building or advanced building science knowledge
• Instructor: Junio Anthes-Moody

👉 Sign up: here

Our Members – In Action

We’re Recharging Our Spotlight!

Our members have been so busy lately that we can hardly keep up! We’re taking a quick break this month to curate our upcoming features. Have a win, a new project, or a milestone you want us to share in the next issue? Hit reply and let us know—we’d love to feature you in our big return next month.

Interesting Links

• Free Blueprints & Faster Permits: Vermont’s New Plan to Solve the Housing Crisis.
• 5 Vermont communities slated for a fiber-to-the-home expansion.
• News of the painfully obvious: Poll finds statewide housing crisis at a breaking point.
• Annual tax on vacant homes proposed to address housing crisis.
• What is impact investing? It’s a good idea.

Events

New York State Green Building Conference: Mar 5–6, 2026 (Syracuse, NY)

BuildingEnergy Boston 2026: Mar 23-24, 2026 (Boston, VT)

Better Building by Design (BBD): May 6-7, 2026 (Southern Burlington, 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 – Marlboro, VT

• Black Mountain Builders VT – Brattleboro, VT

• Bluetime Collaborative – Brattleboro, VT
• Bob Rueter Foundation  (individual owner) – Turners Falls, MA
• Bull Creek Builders – Newfane, VT
• Building-Wright – Durham, NH
• Delta Energy Works (DEW) – Heat Pump Systems – Brattleboro, VT
• Duane Case (individual owner) – Bellows Falls, VT
• Earthshare Construction – Lebanon, NH
• EastRise – Montpelier
• Efficiency Vermont – Winooski, VT
• Farnum Insulators – Dummerston, VT
• Friends of the Sun – Brattleboro, VT

• GPI Construction – Brattleboro, VT

• Graphite Studios – Amherst, MA
• 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) – Brattleboro, VT
• Mathes Hulme Builders – Brattleboro, VT
• Mindel & Morse Builders – Brattleboro, VT
• Nate Gusakov (individual owner) – Vermont
• Northshire Living – Manchester Ctr, VT
• 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) – Chesterfield, NH
• Sustainable Design – Dorset, VT
• Tim Lillis Builder – Westminster, VT
• Tom McLoughlin (individual owner) – Brattleboro, VT
• Unity Homes – Walpole, NH
• Vermont’s Office of Economic Opportunity (O.E.O.) – Waterbury, VT
• Wadsworth Design | Build – Jamaica, VT
• Windham Regional Career Center – Brattleboro, VT
• Wright Builders – Northampton, MA
• WW Building Supply – Newfane, VT

Photo by Black Mountain Builders