CABEC Hall of Fame
Each year CABEC members are asked to nominate any member for that year's award. (Current Board Directors are not eligible for nomination.) From all nominations received, the Directors will vote for one member to recognize. Previous recipients of the award are eligible for the award in following years.
The Hall of Fame recipient will receive a plaque as determined by the Directors, recognition at the next annual or regional meeting, plus one year's membership in CABEC at no charge.
— Beth Brummitt 2007 Member of The Year —CABEC is pleased to announce that Beth Brummitt is CABEC's Member of the Year for 2007!
Beth Brummitt is the principal of Brummitt Energy Associates, Inc, a consulting firm located in San Diego, California, specializing in energy modeling for high performance buildings. A Certified Energy Analyst, a Certified Energy Manager, a USGBC-LEED Accredited Professional since 2002, and with twenty years of experience in energy efficiency and building modeling, Brummitt has been speaking, training, and writing articles for a variety of groups on energy efficiency, the Title 24 energy code, and green buildings for many years.
After serving on the CABEC board for two years, Brummitt served as Chair in 1995. She headed the Compliance Alliance effort between CABEC, the CEC, and building officials. While actively supporting CABEC, she coordinated regional meetings, strengthened membership, taught a number of T24 training courses for residential and non-residential, reviewed and recommended standard improvements, and testified at the CEC.
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— Doug Beaman 2006 Member of The Year —CABEC is pleased to announce that Doug Beaman is CABEC's Member of the Year for 2006!
Doug Beaman has been a CABEC member since the inception of our organization over 20 years ago. He served on the original Board of Directors for two years and was a Board member again from 1997 to 2004. Doug served as Chair of the Board in 2001 and 2002.
Doug states that he sees service as one most of the most important aspects of his life, and the service he has provided to CABEC over the years has been significant. Two of Doug's most noteworthy accomplishments are the establishment of the CABEC Member of the Year Award and the creation of the CABEC Scholarship program.
When you see Doug, please take a minute to thank him for his hard work and perseverance on behalf of CABEC these past 21 years. We owe him a debt of gratitude for his selfless service to the members and the organization.
Photo: Doug on a rafting trip with his wife Chyril & Grandchildren
— Catherine Madlin 2005 Member of The Year —CABEC is pleased to announce that Catherine Madlin is CABEC's Member of the Year for 2005!
Prior to the inception of the 1978 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, Catherine opened Madlin's Enterprises in Palm Springs to provide Title 24 energy conservation consulting and compliance documentation to architects engineers and contractors. She joined CABEC in 1987, served on the board of directors from 1992 through 1995 and was chairman in 1993 and 1994. For her contributions to the organization and its membership she received a Distinguished Service Award from CABEC in 1995.
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— Tom Rotchford 2004 Member of The Year —CABEC is pleased to announce that Tom Rotchford has been chosen as CABEC1s Member of the Year for 2004!
Tom was born and raised in the State of Washington but has been in California for the greater part of 40 years. After graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters Degree in Nuclear Engineering, he was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam Era. Luckily, he did not go to Vietnam but was stationed outside of Washington D.C and worked with the Army Engineers Reactor Group.
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— Ken Nittler 2003 Member of The Year —CABEC is pleased to announce that Ken Nittler is CABEC's Member of the Year for 2003!
Ken is a founding member of CABEC, and contributes a tremendous amount of time and energy to the success of our organization. He served on the CABEC Board of Directors for most of the 1990's and was vice chairman of the organization for two terms. Ken was a key contributor to the founding of CABEC's membership, certification and education programs, and remains a frequent speaker on residential standards issues to the CABEC membership. Ken is proud of the fact that a representative of his company, Enercomp, has been on the board of directors for all but one year of CABEC's existence.
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— Michael Gabel 2002 Member of The Year —CABEC is pleased to announce that Ken Nittler is CABEC's Member of the Year for 2002!
Michael Gabel is Principal and owner of Gabel Associates, LLC, a building energy consulting firm in Berkeley, California. In addition to his work as a prominent energy consultant involved in energy compliance software development and implementation of the Title 24 standards since 1983, Mike has a long and distinguished personal history in his efforts to make CABEC what it is today since he attended the first organizing meeting in September, 1985.
Mike was one of the founding members of CABEC, and served on the CABEC Board of Directors in the late '80s. Mike first served as Education Coordinator, and organized the first CABEC professional seminars on the 1987 and 1988 Title 24 standards. Mike then served as Chair of CABEC, and organized the first Annual Conference in Monterey in 1989. At the Monterey Conference, the Certified Energy Analyst (CEA) committee was formed that later became the CEA program.
In 1998, Mike came back to the CABEC Board to help get CABEC's financial house in order, and to promote CABEC CEAs to building departments throughout the state. After becoming state Chair again, Mike initiated the email newsletter "In the Loop", and promoted the development of the CABEC web site. Since 1987, Mike has served as an instructor at dozens of CABEC Nonresidential Standards seminars. He still serves as a CABEC co-representative to the California Energy Commission on Nonresidential standards issues; and conducts the Professional Practices Workshop (PPW) to new Certified Energy Analysts.
— Bill Mattinson 2001 Member of The Year —CABEC is pleased to announce that Ken Nittler is CABEC's Member of the Year for 2001!
Bill comes from a family of builders, and pounded nails himself during school vacations. He was high jacked by the 1960's into an interest in alternative housing - creating and living in teepees, school buses, domes and homebuilt sailboats.
Re-entering college in the 70's at Sonoma State, he was part of Jerry Brown's first Solar Technician Training program and went on to create a BA program with a Special Major in Solar Energy. Working for an architectural/engineering firm, he led the design team on award winning passive solar and affordable home projects. In 1978 Bill started his own firm - SOLDATA Energy Consulting, where he and his associates continue to guide clients toward comfortable, healthy, energy efficient, and code compliant buildings.
He is a founding member of CABEC, has served on the board, and has been CABEC residential representative to the Energy Commission for a number of years. Bill is a LEED Accredited Professional and an avid long distance bicyclist. He lives in Sonoma County with his wife Laurie and their two teenage kids.
