Bozeman BS* and Beer

205 N Church

• Main floor and top floor is a 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath apartment, detached 2 car garage
•  Basement is a 940 sf, 2 bdrm, 1 bath apartment with detached storage closet in NE corner of garage building, shared laundry with ADU

207 N Church

•  800 sf studio apartment over garage, 1 bath, laundry shared with basement apartment

Both buildings include:

•  Prefabbed wall and roof panels insulated with dense packed straw, 16” double stud 

              R-58 walls

•  R-86 vaulted cold roof
•  Triple pane windows and doors, tilt/turn hardware, around .15 U-value
•  Heated and cooled with air source heat pumps
•  Ventilation provided by one Panasonic bath fan ERV per unit
• 8/12 pitch, south facing roofs, both pre-wired for future PV installation

I grew up in Colorado building mostly log homes and cabins with my Dad and brother, moved to

Bozeman in 1998, and officially started my business as CWJ & Associates in 2007 when I built a house for my neighbor across Peach street. I have a degree in Civil Engineering from CU Boulder and have been interested in energy efficient construction since I graduated in ’95. 

In 2006 I attended the Green Building Conference in San Francisco where I was introduced to building science by Mark LaLiberte – I was hooked. I then started applying all that I was learning to each project, continually “trying to build a better box”, as l like to say. 

In May of 2018, I took the Passive Haus training here in Bozeman, and have been fortunate enough to build two custom homes to PH standards that are currently in the process of becoming certified. 

I love digging into all the details of applied building science and high performance building!