OBI SME Advisors

Subject Matter Advisor Qualifications and Agreement

The basic terms are that the Advisor agrees to provide technical expertise and public feedback on Open Building Institute designs. This is an upaid, volunteer position dedicaed to the common good. Our goal is to assemble significant expertise across about 100 technical areas of house construction, listed below.

• Technical subject matter expertise in a given area of endeavor
• Availability for a minimum of 1 hour of review and consulting meetings with OBI staff every quarter
• Interest in sharing knowledge in the public interest
• Advisor agrees not to introduce any confidential or privileged information that cannot be shared with a greater audience
• Advisors should have an interest in innovation, systems change, and 'hacking the system' to provide innovative, integrated solutions to pressing world issues
• Advisor understands that OSE is a nonprofit education organization, and that both OBI and OSE are completely open source for ever without exception. This is consistent with providing enabling tools and techniques to the world for regenerative development.
• Feedback from the SME advisor will be a matter of public record, unless explicitly requested otherwise by the Advisor.
• Given the open source nature of contributed designs and feedback - users are free to use the resulting creations in any manner that they see fit, consistent with the Open Source Hardware Definition. This includes using, distributing, modifying, or selling information or products
• All knowledge shared by advisor is open source or public domain, no exceptions
• OSE and OBI does not sign NDAs, but only FDAs (Full Disclosure Agreements)

Key Technology Areas

Basically, do a Who'sWho of Regenerative Housing

Top Priorities

SME priorities are based on the priorities of the Nov 2016 builds. Here are known contacts, and other more general areas are to be crowdsourced.

• Ozonator -
• Panel Framing System - [1] - physics to construction.
• Biogas, separating toilet -
• TEG
• PV - Joshua
• Architecture - professional architect - Bob Berkebile
• Open Source Architecture - paper houses, WikiHouse, Cameron Sinclair

Construction

• Regenerative Housing
• Architect, urban planner, contractor.
• Urban Planning- Mitch Joachim
• Landscape architecture - Phil Lewis
• Autonomous House - Rachel Preston Prinz, architctural historian - [2]

• House microbiome - Jessica Green
• Engineer - to stamp the design
• Rachel Armstrong - Connection Architecture to Nature - synthetic biology
• BIM - Yorik
• CEB - Auroville
• CEB manufacture- CNC torch table oxyfuel auto height control
• CEB, Soil Mixer - Powell and Sons
• Passive House Design - Jerome Ostenkowski
• Edible Perennial Landscaping - Eric Toensmeier
• Silicate Mineral Paint - $20/ton for sodium silicate binder
• Lime Concrete -
• Lime Plaster - Plaster/Stucco is binder + sand. For Lime Plaster, binder is Lime. http://www.roundmountainbuilders.com/plaster-and-stucco.html
• Cement Stucco - Plaster/Stucco is binder + sand. For Cement Stucco, binder is Portland Cement. http://www.roundmountainbuilders.com/plaster-and-stucco.html
• Open Source Mapping and Site Design - QGIS leaders
• Site Mapping and 3D Site Render - OpenPilot
• Surveying -
• Modular Housing - Alejandro Aravena
• Affordable Housing - Rural Studio
• Masonry -
• Natural Building - PhD guy founder of Naturalbuilding.com
• Building Codes -
• Real Estate Development
• Economic geology
• Bio-Fiber Panels - Wikihouse
• Wood Plastic Composites - FPL

Infrastructure Systems

• Sand Filters - Earthship clean water filter - [3] - Helene Dube
• Carbon Filters
• Ozonator
• Rainwater catchment
• Franchise Agreement - use of Logo.
• Broadacre regeneration - darren doherty
• LCA Embodied Energy - such as block is 1/4 embodied energy of brick.
• Global Materials Sourcing Supply Chain Mapping -
• Cellulose Insulation - http://cmsgreen.com/, or Mark Bomberg, George Chrenka
• Hydraulic circuit design - Candidates - Brendan Casey [4].
• FreeCAD
• Fluid Simulations -
• CAE Simulations
• PV charge control design
• Windmill controls design
• Swing Blade Sawmill - SMEs
• Industrial Ecology -
• Gas Burners
• Heat Exchangers
• IoT monitoring - Aquaponics Lab
• Mushrooms - Peter McCoy
• Vermiculture
• Rapid Prototyping
• Electronics Fabrication
• Extreme Manufacturing - Andy at Red Bull or - Tim Ferris
• Large Format 3D Printing - panels for the aquaponic greenhouse
• Polycarbonate 3D Printing -
• Power electronics - oxyhydrogen generator
• Power electronics - inverter
• Power electronics - windmill
• Pelletizer -
• Machine Design - tractor, backhoe, trencher, cement mixer
• Cement Mixer - India contact

• Pellet Burner - peeps that make the burner kit
• Gasifier Stove - heat
• Aquaponics - general.
• Aquaponics IPM - Ron Whitehurst
• Continuous Biochar Production - ? guy from YouTube
• Hydraulic Wind Turbine - [5]
• Biohydraulic fluid - Eric Toensmeier
• Biochar Fuel Crops for Landscaping - Eric Toensmeier
• Continuous Lime Production - Grat Publication
• Biodigester - Thomas Culhane
• PV Manufacturing Line -
• PV Installation -
• Solar Hot Water Heating -

• TEG Backup Power - papers on TEG - select Affordable TEG paper
• Business Development Advisor - Cameron Herold
• Marketing Advisor -
• HR Advisor - building an effective team - Jimmy Lin, Rare Genomics Polroject
• IT Advisor -
• Distributive Enterprise -
• Curriculum Development -

• Hydronic Stove -
• Water Purification - sand filters
• Water Purification - open source ozonator
• Closed loop water systems
• Hydrogen production and storage - 200psi medium pressure storage - Walt Pyle
• Separating electrolyzer -
• Aquaponic Oxygen injection -
• Gas Burner - methane cooking
• Duckweed and Azolla -
• RedWorm Towers
• Tilapia
• Superefficient refrigeration -

Materials

• Charcoal continuous production
• Solar Hydrogen - Walt Pyle
• Bioplastic Synthesis -

Platform

• Community Platform - who are the most successful community managers? - See Paperhouses
• Heavyweight Product Management -
• Open Source Product Development
• SweetHome
• FreeCAD Architecture and BIM
• Blender renders and animations -
• WebGL integration - Michel Dhoore
• Interactive Media - Mathieu Lietaert
• Python -
• Power Shift - Alvin Toffler
• Kdenlive - editing
• Natron
• Webcasting software
• IP lawyer
• Sructural testing lab
• Fire testing lab
• thermal performance testing labs
• IoT Home monitoring for thermal, humidity performace
• Network with Habitat for Humanity - Access to land — meaning the laws about who owns and has rights to land — is one of the top priorities for the Habitat network. Removing current barriers to access would benefit millions of people around the world. Improvements would include greater gender equality, increased disaster resilience and decreased slum conditions. - [6]
• Blockchain microgrids - [7]
• Storytelling - Dave Hakkens.

Key Engineering

• Structural engineering -
• Foundation Engineering & Soils

Links

• OBI