  Lance & Cheryl organizing salvaged building materials at their recycling warehouse. Lance & Cheryl using recycled wood scraps and felled trees for their biomass home stove.  Cheryl tending the backyard chicken coop. Twenty chickens producing one egg a day on average.  Lance ensures that at least 90% of all materials during home deconstruction are recycled. No need for dumpsters on any F.G. Ayers building sites. |
About Lance Schmidt
Lance Schmidt has been manager of FG Ayers for the past 16 years. It is one of the leading green homebuilders in Northeast Ohio. On all his home construction projects, Lance does not use dumpsters, requiring the recycling of 90 percent of all his waste materials from the job site. When Lance served as president of the Homebuilders Association of Summit & Portage Counties, he used his office to continue educating his fellow builders on green techniques including the formation of an active and permanent Sustainability Committee. Lance recently launched The NEOHaus Institute, a non-profit collaboration for Passive House technologies incorporating net-zero energy efficiencies, construction of an urban ecovillage and provider of sustainability education and consulting for consumers and businesses. Recently awarded “Champion” of Northeast Ohio-based Entrepreneurs for Sustainability, Lance also holds certifications from the National Association of Home Builders in Building Management and Green Building for Building Professionals, the Building Analyst Professional from the Building Performance Institute, and most recently, Certified Passive House Consultant from the Passive Institute U.S. Lance serves on three green building task forces: the Cities of Akron and Alliance, and Summit County, as well as Summit County’s Green Policy Task Force Deconstruction and Demolition Subcommittee. During construction, Lance works with both the University of Akron US Green Building Coalition Student Chapter and Akron Public Schools` Education in Action program to teach hands-on green building techniques. Lance`s professional interest in sustainability also extends to his personal life. Together with his wife and business partner Cheryl of 26 years, he grows his own fruits and vegetables, composts, raises chickens for eggs, heats his home with bio mass and operates a recycling warehouse. He uses his home and acreage for pilot projects in sustainable gardening, farming and energy alternatives. Lance and Cheryl have two grown children, Rachel and Jonathan, and a yellow lab, Shadow.
|
