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 – a giant collection of the very big and very small…
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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 will lead a discussion about the joys that we've experienced…
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. Net Zero Energy? Neighborhood walkability? And all this with about…
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 – a giant collection of the very big and very small…
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 team that proposed a green roof at the Department of…
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 entire world's GHG emissions. This is even before considering 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. Being a good environmental neighbor to our human and non-human…
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 permitted in the Portland area under the prescriptive load bearing…
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 been enacted, and in some respects the building code community…
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 for art and environmental sustainability, Hoda Sheikh, founder and owner…
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 Mark did when, in the middle of a pandemic, he…
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 to be truly sustainable, our communities must make note of…