2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Each year, the Guild holds elections for new board members, who serve for two years. The board is made up of qualified members who are dedicated to advancing the craft of green building in Colorado and are passionate about leading this organization to the next level. The CGBG Newsletter will announce a call for applications towards the end of the year, and our next election will be held in January 2025. Anyone who is interested in applying should email us at admin@cgbg.org with a bio for the board’s consideration.
Johnny Rezvani
Past President
Johnny Rezvani began his career in sustainability in 2009 when he became involved in co-authoring the first Climate Action Plan for The Evergreen State College in Washington State. He collaborated on regional sustainability plans in local government in the Pacific Northwest before catching the Passive House bug, and joining 475 High Performance Building Supply as Communications Director in 2013. He holds a degree in Sustainability Planning from The Evergreen State College and a Masters of Science degree from The City College of New York’s Sustainability in the Urban Environment program. Johnny moved to Boulder in 2019 and immediately fell in love with the red rocks, streams, and winding pathways of one of greatest bicycle cities in the country.
Contact: jr@475.supply
Shannon Wehner
President
Shannon Wehner, Assoc. AIA, grew up in New Mexico influenced from an early age by endless horizons and architecture that was truly of the earth. Striving to make sustainable design an approachable and attainable standard, Shannon practices her passion as a designer and project manager with Rodwin Architecture. She’s currently working on multiple Net-Zero Energy homes in Boulder County and enjoys educating clients about the passive and active sustainability features in their home throughout the design-build process. A lover of the outdoors and an eternal optimist, her time in Colorado has shown her just how rapidly climate change is affecting the landscapes we love so much, and she firmly believes that through education and conversation we can empower people to think wholistically about how they interact with the planet and its resources. She has enjoyed oopportunities to share her knowledge and skillset with the Colorado community, participating Ramp Builds with the Home Builders Foundation, and contributing as a sustainability and wellness blogger.
Contact: shannon@rodwinarch.com
Jessica Hunter
Jessica Hunter is an Architect living in Denver, Colorado. Jessica has worked with many non-profit organizations in the past and is an advocate of groups that work to educate and empower the community, especially those that offer value to the underserved. Jessica joined CGBG because she recognized the collective knowledge and passion of the group and she believes CGBG will play an active role in a more sustainable Colorado. Jessica currently practices at BOSS.architecture where she continues to further her exploration of design and sustainability.
Contact: jessica@bossarch.com
Marisol Foreman
Marisol Foreman received her Bachelor of Environmental Design with an Architecture focus from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her Master of Architecture with a Sustainable Systems and Design Degree Focus and Daylighting Certificate from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. She has studied in Rome, in Sydney under Glenn Murcutt, and in Berlin, Germany. She is a Certified Passive House Designer, LEED accredited with specialty in Building Design and Construction, received her NCARB Certificate, and is a licensed Architect in the State of Colorado and the State of Washington. As an active volunteer, she is on the Board of the Colorado Green Building Guild (CGBG) and Co-Chair of the AIA Colorado Committee on the Environment (COTE).
Marisol is a Partner and the Sustainability Architectural Manager with Rowland+Broughton. Before coming to Rowland+Broughton, she worked on several transit-oriented projects in Munich, Germany for Albrecht und Partner, religious and multi-family housing projects for atelierjones in Seattle, WA, and on large commercial, science and tech, sports, recreation, and entertainment projects for Perkins&Will. Marisol strives to implement sustainable design practices into every project and has experience working on LEED certified buildings.
Contact: marisol.foreman@rowlandbroughton.com
Kate Weigel
Kate Weigel, is originally from Maine, and holds a BFA in Studio Art from New York University. She's been involved with affordable housing causes on and off for most of her adult life. In 2019, she completed a year of service as an AmeriCorps Construction Crew Lead with Habitat for Humanity MidOhio. Subsequently, she was an intern builder with Community Rebuilds in Moab, Utah working from foundation to finish on the first ever affordable Living Building Challenge residential projects. While in Moab, she also served as a part time AmeriCorps member in the Permaculture Initiative at Utah State University, doing outreach on regenerative practices in the community. Weigel spent the last few years teaching homeowners with low incomes how to cooperatively build their own homes, before she moved to the Boulder area. She recently became a Passive House Certified Tradesperson, and is currently making the transition from carpenter to project manager with Cottonwood Custom Builders.
Contact: weigel.kate@gmail.com
Dylan Ochala
Dylan has more than a decade of carpentry, project management, and GC experience. Dylan discovered passive building and it became the catalyst for founding Tectonic Design Build in 2019. As our namesake implies, our mission at Tectonic is to shift: how we build and why we build.
We feel strongly about educating homeowners and our community about the benefits of high-performance and sustainable building practices. We believe homes should be beautifully designed, built with intention, and deliver good air quality + energy performance.
In 2023, the Tectonic Production Team will be passive certified. Sustainable building is our ethos.
Contact: dylan@tectonicbuilds.com
Lisa Morey
Lisa Morey is a professional engineer and architectural designer who has been working in the construction industry since 2000. Her mission is to scale the natural building industry by offering an affordable wall system made from locally obtained building materials.
Lisa and her team at Colorado Earth help to create healthier structures using appropriate design , reuse of building material, as well as manufacturing EcoBlox in Golden. Using her background in engineering and design, she brings a 10,000 year-old practice to the present day. Believing in a simpler approach that has been time-tested around the world, Lisa sees magic when we bring techniques from our past into the current world.
Contact: lisa@coloradoearth.com
Peter Stuart
Peter Stuart is best known as chief builder and owner of Sterling Builders. From a young age, he developed his skills in carpentry and felt the strong desire to make a change in the residential construction industry. While attending the University of Denver, he started in mechanical engineering then found true passion in creating comfort and longevity in building. Driven by passion of building and developing with the future in mind, Peter now takes a scientific approach. Peter is a Certified Passive House Builder striving to be at the forefront of innovation as it happens. Peter is now known as the builder of Colorado’s first Multi-Family Passive Home. He takes value in high-performance building techniques and premium sustainable products. When Peter is not building amongst his team, he enjoys spending time with his wife, children and two dogs.
Contact: peter@sterlingbuilders.co
Margot Rode
Margot has worked primarily as a construction project manager since moving to Colorado and receiving her Master's Degree in construction engineering and management in 1999. Following graduation, she engineered straw bale homes for a few years, and then started home building in the mountains outside of Boulder, completing 6 new residences and many remodels since then. Her focus is using low-carbon materials, designing for small spaces, and always evaluating the building envelope for best building science practices. In addition to project management, she has worked many years with her tools as a carpenter and stone mason.
Contact: clearpathcm@gmail.com
Matt Brill
Matt has over 20 years of diverse experience in construction, urban design, and project implementation; having worked in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and now Boulder for both public and private sector organizations in various capacities, including construction project management, building operations, planning, capital project delivery, program management, and advocacy.
As owner of Bauen Build, Matt brings an insatiable desire for creating highly considered homes, an appreciation of technology to enhance home construction, and a passion to create the highest quality and healthiest homes. Bauen Build is driven to create healthy homes for both the enjoyment of homeowners and to improve the health of the planet. Matt has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and a masters degree in Urban Design from UC Berkeley.
Contact: matt@bauenbuild.com
Robin Sheck
Executive Administrator
Robin grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming, but she has happily called Colorado home for the last 12 years. Moving to Boulder in 2009 helped change Robin’s perspective on how to approach sustainability in her daily life. She enjoys listening to audio books and playing board games with her husband.
Robin and her husband, Dan, just welcomed their first child into the world in December!
Contact: admin@cgbg.org
Tanya Garcia
Executive Administrator