Tony Woods, member of the Building Performance Institute (BPI) Board of Directors and founder of Canam Building Envelope Specialists and ZERODRAFT®, passed away on May 8, 2009, after a battle with cancer.

From bungalow to skyscraper, school to seat of government and all points in between, Mr. Woods improved the performance of almost every type of structure. He was a true pioneer of building performance and the systems approach, blazing a trail with his smoke pencil and can of polyurethane foam since the early 1970s, and co-founding Canam Building Envelope Specialists Inc. in 1980.

Throughout his career, Mr. Woods developed many new and innovative ways to diagnose and correct building envelope flaws, as well as ways to calculate the energy savings that could be realized from retrofit air leakage control work. Seeing a need for higher-quality materials, he developed and launched the ZERODRAFT line of weatherization products in the mid-1990s. Today the network of ZERODRAFT approved applicators extends across North America and into Australia. Canam Building Envelope Specialists and ZERODRAFT were acquired by Tremco Inc. on April 1, 2009.