| Britt/Makela Group, Inc is
comprised of husband and wife team Eric Makela and Michelle Britt.
Building on experience in code development, training, data analysis,
planning and project management, we brought our individual expertise and
shared interests in architecture, building science, and low-impact energy
efficient building design together to form Britt/Makela Group, Inc.
Teaming with other subject matter experts on occasion, we delight in working
with our clients to develop new understanding of the code, building
practices in their locale, or helping a frustrated client solve a code
compliance issue. When not onsite with a client, we reside in rural
southwestern Idaho.
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Eric Makela has provided energy code and conservation support the building, design and enforcement community since 1986. He has trained or presented on energy codes in over 22 states with sessions focused on residential and commercial building energy codes. The majority of these have been directed at the enforcement industry teaching local building department personnel how to plan check and inspect to ensure compliance. Eric holds ICC certifications for both Commercial and Residential Energy Codes Plans Examination. In the past years, Eric managed residential baseline studies in Nevada and Iowa, developed training videos for building inspectors for the US Department of Energy and the State of New York; and most recently a video on how to build to the energy code focused on the building audience. He was the principle author of curricula for basic energy code and advanced energy concepts for the State of Maryland, in addition to developing training materials and delivering training in Texas, Idaho, New York, Iowa, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Maryland. |
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| Eric has served on the Idaho Power Energy Efficiency Advisory Group and was most recently named the ICC IECC Code Development Committee. Before joining Britt/Makela Group, Eric was the Senior Educational Programs Administrator for the International Conference of Building Officials, providing energy code support services including acting as the ICBO liaison to the ICC IECC Code Development Committee. Previously he was Training Coordinator for the Building Standards and Guidelines Program for Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, responsible for training efforts for the implementation of national energy codes. There he authored curricula and training programs for the Model Energy Code and ASHRAE/IES 90.1-1989. He also served on the development team for the US DOE MECcheck and COMcheck energy code compliance tools. He has a BA degree in Environmental Studies from Sonoma State University and an MA in Education. | ||
| Michelle Britt has extensive
experience conducting technical studies, energy code compliance
documentation, plan review and as a project manager of
multidisciplinary studies. Michelle has held the ICC Certification for
Commercial Energy Plans Examiner, but in
recent years has assisted in development of the examination. She has
multi-state commercial plans experience, and assists in the development of
training materials.
In the past years, she has managed the energy code compliance analysis for the residential baseline studies conducted by International Conference of Building Officials in Nevada and Iowa, the commercial baselines study in Indiana, and also developed the comparative analysis tool used for the studies. She co-authored and coordinated the production of curricula which was used in the states of Maryland and Texas and has been developed into the primary seminar books used by ICBO/ICC. Michelle was formerly a project manager with a major west coast environmental consulting firm, and a planner with a regional council of governments. She has conducted technical energy and transportation studies and managed multidisciplinary environmental impact studies in several western states. She has a BA degree in Environmental Studies from Sonoma State University and has completed work on her MA in Humanities.
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Britt/Makela Group Inc is committed to serving the building code and design community with Energy Codes training, educational support, compliance assessment, and analysis.