High Performance Master Residential & Commercial Property Inspections + Building Specialists

Who is Brian Cornwell, and why did he start the first and only "high performance inspection" business in Colorado?

Building Supporters Owner, Master High Performance Home & Commercial Inspector, Master Passive House Builder & Architect, ConstructionMuseum.com Founder & Collector + Building Scientist and Problem Solving Specialist

Brian is the mastermind behind Building Supporters, where building science meets pure genius. In his early 30s, Brian built his own 4,478 square-foot, multi-million dollar mountain home in Lyons, Colorado. As the master builder and architect, Brian built in the most difficult building code region in the USA (Boulder County), and to the most difficult standard in the world: Passive House. (R-50 walls and R-90 roof) With ZERO mortgage, Brian performed every single trade firsthand, from excavation to drywall mudding.

Beyond building architecturally-driven dream homes, Brian's love for historical and modern building methods can been seen through his Boulder, Colorado based ConstructionMuseum.com As the first construction museum in North America, Brian's remarkable collection totals more than 200,000+ historical building artifacts and tools including: the world's first framing nailer, copper from the Statue of Liberty, and cladding from the very the top of the Empire State Building. Brian's passion for understanding how every single building component works is unmatched.

Brian has traveled across some of the most remote/dangerous mountain trails in Colorado to explore hisotric abaonded mines and structures. Brian has extensively studied how Colorado's challenging enveriomental factors including high altitude, extreme winter weather conditions, and extreme ultraviolet radition detriorate structures. Brian's passion for mining and material science, has taught him how underground minerals/ores are convereted into every building products, and how these materials utlimately respond to real-world building applications. Brian knows the root causes behind building material and method failures, the science behind it, and the solutions. Brian personally mentors every single high performance inspector on the team.

FREE Thermal Imaging Survey with every inspection. Most inspectors today carry ~20 basic tools. Building Supporters brings over 200+ in advanced, calibrated and highly-specalized tools to your property.

Over 200+ specalized tools as needed including: Sewer Scopes, Thermal Cameras, Ariel Drones, Pole Cameras, Duct And Chimney Scopes, Continuous Radon Monitors, Sound Level Meters, Voltage, Continuity and Current Testers, Pinless Moisture meters, Anemometers, AFCI/GFCI Testers, Combustible Gas Detectors, Carbon Monoxide Analizers, Microwave Leak Detectors, IAQ Meters (Dew Point, Wet Bulb/Air Temperature, RH, Formaldehyde, TVOC, Particle +), Smoke pens, Spectoscopes, Bluing/Septic Dye Tests, Ultra Violet UV lights, Water Gauges (Pressure, Flow, GPM + PSI), Digital Angle Finders, and many other tools.

Fast, SAME Day testing results for most enviromental testing. World-class nationally accredited laboratory partners for advanced laboratory sample testing.