Russ Miller-Johnson, P.E., is the Structural Group Coordinator for Engineering Ventures, PC in Burlington, VT. He has served as the Engineer-of-Record and project manager on several LEED certified and high-performance envelope projects in upper New England employing differing thermal-break structural and envelope connections. He chairs the American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineering Institute’s Thermal Bridging Working Group, and has recently presented at ASCE SEI Structure’s Congress and NESEA BE’s on thermal breaks.