MARK LALIBERTE

Mark LaLiberte is a recognized industry trainer, author and consultant with more than two decades of experience. His focus is to help the building industry learn to build better homes and better businesses. Mark has a deep personal commitment to his work and strives to help his clients increase the performance of the homes they build and translate those changes into business success.

In high demand, Mark reaches more than 8,000 builders in the U.S. a year through his private services, and has been a featured speaker at such events as the NAHB International Builders Show, PCBC, Sunbelt Builders Show, and JLC Live conferences.

In addition to being the onscreen guide for BKI's Building Better Homes Series, Mark's media involvement includes his role as a spokesperson for the Ad Council's Energy Hog Campaign, and appearances as an on-camera content expert in TLC's Home Pro and Home Savvy series and the PBS Hometime series.

GORD COOKE

For the past two decades, Gord Cooke has been an effective and passionate educator and advocate for better building practices, improved indoor air quality and energy efficiency. He has a unique talent of taking the complex issues of building science and breaking them into easily understood elements with practical real-world applications for all audiences.

Gord's building science training curricula covers the gamut from creating and delivering basic and advanced building science principles through managing indoor air quality to HVAC system design to an intensive sales training workshop. He has pioneered new training programs designed to assist builders in the sales and marketing of higher performing, energy efficient homes - helping builders more effectively tell their story to customers, increase their margins and sell more homes.

Gord has delivered sessions at such conferences as the NAHB's International Builders Show, Energy Design Conference, JLC Live, West Coast Green and the National Green Building Conference and is an active Energy & Environmental Building Association (EEBA) board member and certified trainer.