Ann V. Edminster

Ann V. Edminster

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  • Design AVEnues LLC

    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Santa Rosa, California, United States

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    North America

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    United States

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    California

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

Publications

  • Zero Net Energy Builder Resource Guide

    Pacific Gas & Electric

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  • ZNE Primer

    AIA California Council

    See publication

  • California Residential ZNE Market Characterization

    The joint California Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) contracted a team led by TRC Energy Services (the “TRC team”) to conduct a market characterization of Zero Net Energy (ZNE) new construction homes in California. The study’s objectives were to: Characterize the residential ZNE-type new construction market by estimating the market sizes and exploring trends for ZNE and ZNE-type homes; Assess residential energy rating systems and financing opportunities for ZNE-type homes; and Assess drivers…

    The joint California Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) contracted a team led by TRC Energy Services (the “TRC team”) to conduct a market characterization of Zero Net Energy (ZNE) new construction homes in California. The study’s objectives were to: Characterize the residential ZNE-type new construction market by estimating the market sizes and exploring trends for ZNE and ZNE-type homes; Assess residential energy rating systems and financing opportunities for ZNE-type homes; and Assess drivers, barriers, and opportunities to messaging, building, financing, and purchasing residential ZNE-type new construction.

    This study found that ZNE-type homes – and ZNE homes in particular – are in the innovator stage of market adoption. All told, over 50 builders have constructed ZNE-type homes in over 130 California cities. The TRC Team identified approximately sixteen ZNE homes and over one thousand ZNE-ready and near ZNE homes based on this study’s interpretation of this term.

    Despite this vibrant activity among the emerging ZNE-type market, the study also found various indicators that the market is not currently poised to achieve a ZNE homes 2020 aspirational goal, including a lack of consumer demand, a lack of qualified building professionals, early adopters’ misperceptions about the ZNE concept, questions regarding the cost effectiveness of ZNE-type homes, and various barriers (real and perceived) to adoption of ZNE-type homes.

    If meaningful progress toward the 2020 ZNE goal is to be achieved in the next five years, it would require a ZNE Market Transformation Initiative that transcends the current regulatory framework for PA program delivery. In addition, the ZNE-type home community will need to work collaboratively across various stakeholder groups—both within and beyond California—to encourage the market to meet ZNE residential new construction goals.

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  • Energy Free: Homes for a Small Planet

    Green Building Press

    See publication

  • Efficient Wood Use in Residential Construction

    NRDC

    Other authors
    • Sami Yassa
    See publication

Projects

  • Blueprint for Leadership

    I facilitate the Blueprint for Leadership initiative in conjunction with Chris Dorsi of Habitat X and Kathleen O'Brien of Emerge Leadership Project.

    If you're a leader in the world of home performance, green building, and sustainable housing, you'll gain great professional and personal benefits by joining us in one of these intensive career-changing ten-week seminars.

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  • Zero-Net-Energy video for PG&E

    A video produced a year ago as part of an Exhibit at the PG&E Training Center in Stockton California.

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  • The Emerge Leadership Project

    - Present

    A five-year project to build a community of sustainable building leaders around the philosophy of emergent leadership, combining servant leadership philosophy, change psychology, new science, adult human development theory, and moral leadership competencies.

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  • LEED for Homes Scoring Tool

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    The LEED for Homes Scoring Tool is the first web-based platform for easily evaluating how close a proposed residential construction project would be to achieving LEED for Homes certification. It provides two pathways for evaluation. The first is the Quick Score path where users input basic, non-technical information about a proposed project. It then utilizes historic information to make assumptions about the project and assigns the measures required to meet a stated certification level. The…

    The LEED for Homes Scoring Tool is the first web-based platform for easily evaluating how close a proposed residential construction project would be to achieving LEED for Homes certification. It provides two pathways for evaluation. The first is the Quick Score path where users input basic, non-technical information about a proposed project. It then utilizes historic information to make assumptions about the project and assigns the measures required to meet a stated certification level. The second path is the Credit-by-Credit view of the LEED for Homes rating system. This path is intended for power users that are very familiar with the rating system and all of its requirements. This path allows users to navigate through each credit in the rating system and select which credits they will or will not pursue in their proposed project.

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Honors & Awards

  • Who's Who in Home Building 2014

    Builder and Developer Magazine

    http://www.bdmag.com/magazine/2014/dec/index.php

  • Woman of the Year

    Affordable Comfort, Inc. / Women in Home Performance

    ACI Women in Home Performance presents the Woman of the Year Award to celebrate exceptional women making an impact on the home performance and weatherization industry. This award recognizes women whose passion, leadership, initiative, and determination have inspired others.

Languages

  • Italian, Spanish, French, German, few words of Mandarin

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Organizations

  • Terra.do

    Mentor

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  • Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility

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  • Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility

    Board member

  • Ecological Building Network

    Board member

  • Net Zero Energy Coalition

    Board member

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