Thrive Home Builders Denver, Colorado

Gene is owner, Chairman and Chief Sustainability Officer of Thrive Home Builders in Denver, Colorado. By virtue of its unprecedented 13 Grand Awards for Housing Innovation from the United States Department of Energy, Thrive is among the nation’s best builders of energy efficient homes. RESNET named Thrive the 2021 and 2023 number 1 production builder in the US and Canada for energy efficiency in its annual President's Cup and Cross Border Challenge. Thrive is also among the nation’s leading healthy home builders as evidenced by numerous Environmental Protection Agency Indoor airPLUS Leader Awards and its designation as Leader of the Year nationally in 2019. In addition to Indoor airPLUS, all Thrive homes meet the Department Energy’s Zero Energy Home and Energy Star standards. Thrive was also recognized as Builder of the Year in 2017 by Professional Builder magazine and won the Silver and Bronze National Housing Quality Awards. Gene was named Green Builder magazine’s Sustainability Superhero and he was given the EEBA Legend Award by the Energy and Environmental Building Alliance for his lifetime achievement.