Develop an effective green home building business with the NAHB Research Center's resident expert, Jeannie Leggett Sikora. She has combed through hundreds of annual contest entries and talked to past award winners to develop specific examples and tried-and-true techniques to give home builders the inside track to create successful green building practices, for choosing products to marketing energy efficient homes.
Jeannie Leggett Sikora is a consultant to the residential construction industry. Ms. Sikora's area of expertise is energy and resource efficiency; she has a diverse background in providing outreach to the residential, agricultural, and industrial sectors. Prior to starting her own company in 2004, Ms. Sikora worked on residential energy efficiency and green building projects for the NAHB Research Center.
Ms. Sikora's experience as an educator in the agricultural field includes positions in cooperative extension at Penn State and the University of Wisconsin. In those positions, she developed educational publications on rural energy issues and delivered educational programs about energy use in agriculture. She holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University and an M.S. degree in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.
Ms. Sikora lives in Millersville, Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.
