R. Christopher Mathis

chris@mathisconsulting.com

R. Christopher “Chris” Mathis has spent the past 30 years focusing on how buildings and building products perform – from energy efficiency to code compliance to long-term durability.  Today, his business focus is to work with strategically-aligned clients, leveraging that knowledge and understanding to improve buildings, building products and the codes and standards that govern them.

Chris received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  He received a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from MIT where his graduate work focused on energy use in buildings. 

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Jonah Butcher

jonah@mathisconsulting.com

Jonah Butcher has 9 years of broad-based engineering, design, and product development experience in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the private, commercial, and university settings.  Early work on renewable energy R&D led to project work with architects and engineers on some of the most innovative building energy projects in the Southeast including the UNC Asheville Craft Campus and the Proximity Hotel (Recently rated LEED Platinum and host to the largest solar-hot-water installation in the South East).  He has led Mathis Consulting projects in market research for building supply and solar manufacturing companies.

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Rob Moody

rob@mathisconsulting.com

Rob is a frequent contributor to Fine HomeBuilding magazine and GreenBuildingAdvisor.com, writing blogs, articles and creating video blogs. Rob will soon be working with the Clinton Foundation on weatherization, green building and energy efficiency training in Arkansas. Rob's career has been spent in three phases thus far: high school science teacher, green builder and green consultant and educator. Sustainability has been the consistent theme with each profession. From an early age, Rob had a keen interest in the environment, and earned a degree in biology focusing on vertebrate ecology (namely salamanders) at UNC Asheville.

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Rachel Larson

rachel@mathisconsulting.com

Rachel Larson received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  While there she became a leader and advocate with the campus ecology club, Active Students for a Healthy Environment, and participated in the Annual Spring Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creativity, graduating cum laude and with honors.  From her research in psychology, she gained experience in creating various assessment tools and in survey and data analysis.  As a producer a live local TV and DVD series on alternative health topics and environmental stressors, she provides the MC2 team with valuable experience in setting up different types of educational events and training sessions.  Her background in psychology and experience in customer service brings valuable perspective on various communication strategies to different audiences.  She sees the work in MC2 on improving the energy efficiency of homes as essential to creating greater social equity and a delivering a better standard of living for those most unable to be wasteful.

Bridget Herring

bridget@mathisconsulting.com

Bridget Herring holds a B.S. in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Education and a Minor in Political Science.  As a student leader at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she was a co-founder and leader of the University Development Initiative and as a student at the University of North Carolina at Asheville was co-founder of the Students for Transit activist group. Working with the Clean Air Community Trust, a local non-profit for air quality, she developed and conducted an outreach campaign for a carpooling system with all the major employers in Asheville, NC. As an associate for Mathis Consulting Company, she has conducted an aggressive outreach campaign and provided on-site support for energy code education to building professionals across the Carolinas.  Bridget was involved in the South Carolina's state energy code development process.  More recently, she coordinated and developed training on the most recent provisions of the North Carolina Energy Conservation Code to the North Carolina Building Inspector's Association.  Currently she working to develop the next "Stretch" Energy Code for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

E. Benjamin Edwards

ben@mathisconsulting.com

E. Benjamin Edwards has formal education in general biology, environmental health, and pharmacology.  His time spent in China after receiving his B.S. from Davidson College encouraged him to pursue a career in health and resource management.  Training from North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources prepared him for critical topics raised during the International Green Construction Code development process and ongoing E60 Sustainability proceedings at ASTM.  Most recently, Ben has created education materials for advancing minimum energy codes in North and South Carolina, while keeping focus on the critical “pull-through” of on-the-ground code enforcement.

Jonathan H.C. Kelman

jon@mathisconsulting.com

Jonathan H.C. Kelman holds a Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, and currently is working on his PhD.  He has 6 years of undergraduate teaching experience in political science and history.  As an associate at Mathis Consulting Company, Jonathan has researched the potential capital costs associated with future power plant construction by North and South Carolina utilities.  

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