8:30 Doors Open/Welcome/Networking
9:00 am – The River That Made Seattle
Once teeming with bountiful salmon and fertile plains, Seattle’s Duwamish River drew both Native peoples and settlers to its shores…
Housing: The Future is Now
10:30am – The Need for Affordable, Sustainable Housing
We have dual climate and affordable housing emergencies bearing down on us as a community and a world. In order…
12:00pm – Blowing the Lid Off Affordable Net Zero Housing
The C Street Co-op packs a punch: Affordable Housing at 60% AMI? Check. Affordable homeownership? Check. Permanently affordable homeownership? Check.…
2:00pm – Housing Solutions Across the Edge
Well before the current housing crisis, creative developers and grassroots communities were busy advancing a broad movement. Largely inspired to…
Challenging Climate Change
10:30am – Concrete Carbon Solutions
The top 50 architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) firms, and other key professionals responsible for well over one trillion dollars of…
12:00pm – How Buildings Can Reverse Climate Change
Emissions arising from manufacturing building materials for North American homes add around 65 million metric tonnes of GHGs every year.…
2:00pm – Climate Change, IAQ and Energy Efficiency
Climate change, wildfires, excessive heat and a life-threatening pandemic - life as we have known it, no longer exists. Many…
The Devil’s in the Details
9:00am – Single Family Electrification Retrofits
The benefits of electrifying your home are numerous: improved health from reducing air pollution inside your home, increased comfort from…
10:30am – Interrupting the Wood Waste Stream, for Good
Significant amounts of usable wood are going to landfills and being burned in our region. (300,000 tons of clean wood…
12:00pm – Transforming the Way We Deliver Hot Water
What if we could cut greenhouse gas emissions, invest in underserved communities, and create thousands of good-paying jobs? Turns out…
New Frontiers
9:00am – Strategic Energy Planning for Resilience
The focus of this session is on best practices for developing a strategic energy plan that is centered on equitable…
10:30am – A Landscape Befitting a Legacy
When a Bainbridge Island client approached her about working on the home they were building to reflect their lifelong passion…
12:00pm – Reaching (for) a New Horizon: A PassiveHouse Story
This is a story about a family’s determination to effect a cleaner future by building a certified passive house –…
Closing
2:00pm – Where’s the Joy in Construction? Got Work To Do!
There is work to do if we want to make this a welcoming, inclusive industry. Let's talk about it. We…
3:30 Networking
The Slam
5:30 Virtual Happy Hour/Networking
6:00 Welcome
Part 1
Blowing the Lid Off Affordable Net Zero Housing – Dylan Lamar
The C Street Co-op packs a punch: Affordable Housing at 60% AMI? Check. Affordable homeownership? Check. Permanently affordable homeownership? Check.…
Reaching (for) a New Horizon: A PassiveHouse Story- Kevin Witt
This is a story about a family’s determination to effect a cleaner future by building a certified passive house –…
My Green Roof 16 Years On – Michael Laurie
My Green Roof 16 years later and I am still hanging in there with it I was on a…
Concrete-Free Slab on Grade Foundations – Josh Salinger
Concrete is the worlds second most used material behind water and this material alone accounts for almost 8% of the…
RainChangers: Big Impact – Low Cost – Aaron Clark
Above all else, this is the story of how to do what you can, where you can, when you can.…
7:30 Break
Part 2
Portland’s 1st Prescriptive Code Straw Bale Home! – Mark Lakeman
This home is a triumph in several respects. It represents the first time that a straw bale project has been…
Innovative Foundations Support Affordable Housing – Roger Roatch
Cities continue to wrestle with solutions to the ballooning cost of housing. Over the past couple of years, policies have…
Trees and the Building of a Legacy Mindset – Hoda Sheikh (cancelled)
When a Bainbridge Island client approached her about working on the home they were building to reflect their lifelong passion…
Doing Well by Doing Good – Built Green Remodels for Condos – Mark Smedley
Have you ever taken a plunge into the unknown with little more than determination to see you through? That’s what…
The Need for Affordable, Sustainable Housing – Angela Rozmyn
We have dual climate and affordable housing emergencies bearing down on us as a community and a world. In order…
9:00 Virtual Party/Networking