WILL BEEMER: Author, builder, teacher for over twenty-five years. Currently Executive Co-Director of the Timber Framers Guild.
DAVE CARLON: Professional timber framer who has taught more than forty workshops with Will Beemer; this will be the fifth consecutive year Dave and Will have taught timber framing at Pingree Park.
PETER HANEY: Builder/woodworker for over twenty years; founder and workshop organizer of Rocky Mountain Workshops.
JOSH JACKSON: Received his degree in B.S.M.E. from Yale University in 1989 and worked briefly on energy efficiency programs at Pacific Gas & Electric Company before discovering the Holy Grail of timber framing. Two summers as a Heartwood School apprentice led to a position with Big Timberworks in Bozeman, MT where he had the opportunity to work on their straw bale office, in addition to his work as a joiner. Josh has assisted with timber framing workshops at the Heartwood School in Massachusetts, Rocky Mountain Workshops in Colorado and recently designed and built a straw clay timber frame home, which earned second place in the University of Oregon's Ecological Home Challenge 2000. Recent and imminent projects include a straw clay workshop at November's Guild Conference at Montebello and an upcoming timber framing workshop at the Yestermorrow School of Design in Vermont. Josh is currently staying out of trouble as an itinerant timber framer and ecological design/builder; he was recently appointed as a full-time instructor at the Heartwood School.
JOHN MILLER: Production Manager for Dreaming Creek Timber Frame Homes and considered one of the finest teachers of compound joinery with over twenty-five workshops to his credit, including his first stint with Rocky Mountain Workshops in 1999.
DALE MULFINGER: As a principal in the firm SALA Architects, Inc., formerly Mulfinger, Susanka & Mahady Architects, Inc., Dale is involved in all phases of the architectural process. He has been project architect for a significant portion of the work accomplished by the office since its founding in 1983. He is a professor at the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota, where he teaches architecture and urban design studios and is a frequent lecturer to both laymen and scholars. He recently authored the book "The Architecture of Edwin Lundie," published by MHS Press, and is currently researching cabins in North America for an upcoming book by Taunton Press.
CHRIS ROULSON: For nine years, Chris has been working as a principal joiner at Big Timberworks in Montana, one of the country's most respected design/build framing companies. He has been instrumental in the development of many of the methods used at Big Timberworks, and has helped create all manner of structures, from finely finished to rough scribed frames, log/timber hybrids and compound roof systems to complete projects that utilize a large number of different site-milled recycled materials. Some of Chris's handiwork can be seen in Tedd Benson's new book, Timberframe, pp. 140-147.
ANDREA WARCHAIZER has a Masters Degree in Architecture from the Yale University School of Architecture, and has been designing timber frame homes since 1990. She has taught and lectured extensively throughout the US and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Timber Framers Guild.
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