Mark Parlee Email & Phone Number

MARK PARLEE (Short BIO/Introduction)Mark Parlee is a Building Consultant with 46 years in the construction trades, having worked as a framing and siding carpenter, homebuilder, remodeler, and exterior renovator. While working in these trades he has built or dismantled and replaced the exteriors on several hundred homes. This has allowed him to see what works, and to also see the problematic details that have led to moisture intrusion into the building envelope and to effect corrections.Mark currently uses the expertise gathered over his life’s work as a consultant on construction defects and moisture intrusion as an expert witness, and as a seminar presenter. He is EDI (Exterior Design Institute) Certified as an EIFS, Stucco, and Stone Inspector/Moisture Analyst/Quality Control and is also certified by EDI as a Building Envelope II, Steep Slope Roof Inspector and was one of the instructors of the first EDI Stone Veneer Inspection Certification Seminar. He is a certified Level I Infrared Thermographer and Certified Residential Thermographer. Mark has been a guest lecturer for Architecture Forensics at Iowa State University. Mark has also attained certification as a Building Envelope Investigator through BESI (Building Envelope Science Institute). Mark is also on the Board of Directors for EDI. Mark’s articles in Journal of Light Construction have been numerous, including “Rescuing a Manufactured Stone Wall” (Dec ’08), “Repairing a Rotting Roof” (June ’10), “A Rot Resistant Chimney Chase” (Nov ’11), “Mixing Cladding and Stick-On Stone” (Aug ’13), “Best Practices: Adhered Masonry Veneer” (Oct ’13), “Best Practices Stucco” (Dec ’14), “Common Siding Failures” (Oct ’15), “Getting Kick-Out Flashings Right” (Apr ’16), “Common Roofing Errors” (May ’16), and “How to Destroy a Wall in Two Easy Steps” (Sep ‘17). Mark has culled his archives of thousands of photos of exteriors in need of repair and addressed the needed proper correction in PowerPoint driven presentations to the National Association of Home Builders Remodelers Council, the American Institute of Architects Iowa Convention (2011 and 2012), Minnesota Society of Home Inspectors, American Society of Home Inspectors National Convention (Inspection World 2015 through 2020), and Alliant Energy Builder Training (2015 through 2017), among others.

Listed skills include Construction, Renovation, Construction Management, Custom Homes, and 22 others.

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  Des Moines Area Community College

  Electronic And Communications Engineering Technology/Technician