Paul Eldrenkamp

Business Consultant

(he/him)

Paul’s first job in construction was building panelized passive solar livestock confinements in Eldora, Iowa in the late 1970s. Shortly after finishing college, in 1983 he founded Byggmeister, Inc, a residential design-build remodeling firm. In 2014, Byggmeister began a conversion to employee-ownership that was completed in October of 2021.

Paul was an early participant in groundbreaking remodeling industry peer review groups such as Les Cunningham’s Business Networks and Linda Case and Victoria Downing’s Remodelers Advantage; from that experience he went on to co-found NESEA’s Bottom Lines peer review networks with Jamie Wolf and John Abrams in 2014 and continues to serve as a group facilitator. He was a member of the first Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC) training with Katrin Klingenberg in Urbana IL in 2008, and a founding member of the Passive House MA board in 2010. He has served on NESEA’s board and as chair of the Building Energy 13 conference.

Over the years, he has written several dozen articles on business and technical topics for the Journal of Light Construction, Green Building Advisor, and Fine Homebuilding. Most recently, he helped establish NESEA’s BEST program, which creates mentoring and career discovery opportunities between small design, construction, and engineering businesses and students from Boston-area vocational high schools.