Housing Update | Sustainable Development & Demand for Low Carbon Buildings
Multifamily Developers Choosing High Performance
July 22nd, 2021
The Pattern for Progress Center for Housing Solutions convenes industry leaders for a virtual panel discussion exploring the many angles of housing and real estate.
Pattern for Progress is pleased to be partnering with the Community Preservation Corporation on a special Summer Housing Webinar Series dedicated to Sustainable Development and Demand for Low Carbon Buildings. The series will offer best practices and solutions through conversation about Sustainable Development.
This conversation is dedicated to Multifamily Developers Choosing High Performance. Yetsuh Frank, AIA, LEED BD+C, Managing Director of Strategy & Programs at Building Energy Exchange moderates the panel discussion. The panel includes Ryan Wallace, Partner of The Solar Village Company and CEO of Solar Home Factory, whose team constructed the first net-zero modular housing development in the United States and whose company is expanding to build multi-family structures across the northeast. Zevilla Jackson Preston, R.A., Principal at JP Design Group, and Vogue Jackson, Director of Development at JP Design Group, a design and development firm focused on carbon neutrality, recognizing the interconnection of Sustainable Design and the social, physical, environmental and cultural vitality of a community.
Yetsuh Frank, AIA, LEED BD+C
Managing Director, Strategy & Programs, Building Energy Exchange
Ryan Wallace
Partner – The Solar Village Company & CEO – Solar Home Factory
After 20 years of installing solar, Ryan and his team constructed a modular home factory in 2018 that only manufactures net-zero housing. The team constructed the first net-zero modular housing development in the United States. Located in Geneva, NY this 18-unit development produces 30% more energy than it uses. The company is now expanding the factory to build multi-family structures across the northeast with the goal of 500 new net-zero apartments per year—all from a single factory in Geneva, New York.
Zevilla Jackson Preston, R.A.
Principal – JP Design Group
Zevilla Jackson Preston is a registered architect with 25+ years of experience in building design and construction. She is principal of JP Design (JPD), a family owned and operated design/ development firm. Zevilla’s primary focus is the architectural division which provides a full array of architectural services from pre-design through construction. As an architect she is intrigued by the mathematics of carbon neutrality that seeks to balance an equation. Beyond the practicality of balancing an equation, building materials and equipment efficiencies, for Zevilla – Sustainable Design speaks to a process that recognizes the interconnection of the social, physical, environmental and cultural vitality of a community and/or a specific client.
Vogue Jackson
Director of Development – JP Design Group
Vogue Jackson is Director of Development at JP Design (JPD), a family owned and operated design/ development firm. As Director of Development, Vogue researches and sources potential development sites, generates financial models, secures financing, as well as, develops themes and visions for each development project. Her criterion for assessing potential projects is rooted in carbon neutrality. Her vision is that 100% of JPDs projects shall be carbon neutral or carbon positive.