Brian Iverson started his career in the early 1970s, hanging sheetrock on a neighbor's job site. What started as helping a friend became a lifelong vocation in the building industry — and eventually, a mission to fix how North America builds.

Today, Brian holds degrees in architecture and civil engineering, earned his Certified Energy Auditor designation through Northern States Power (now Xcel Energy), and has spent the past five decades designing, building, and auditing structures across the continent. He is the inventor of the Thermal Studs product line — a structural framing member engineered to eliminate thermal bridging in wood-frame construction — and the founder of Carbonless.org, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing building science education.