Brad has extensive training in extremely specialized (and occasionally obscure) fields of study, such as: superinsulation, natural plastering, traditional Japanese hip roof framing, eyebrow dormer framing, medieval geometric proportioning, tangent hand railing, curved timber roof framing, Japanese woodworking, hewing, cruck framing, and many courses on compound joinery. Brad is also part of the brand new Department of Labor apprenticeship program of the Timber Framers Guild, and recently became one of the first journeyman timber framers in the country. He is the only certified journeyman timber framer in Western Massachusetts.