Remove Green Remove Housing Remove Portland Remove Sustainability
article thumbnail

Passive House is “In” in 2017

Green Building Law Update

As you consider what’s “in” and what’s “out” in 2017, within the realm of green building, Passive House is in. This “passive” approach, in contrast with active systems based on a constant supply of conditioned air by HVAC systems is the basis of Passive House. Governments in North America are beginning to drive Passive House.

Housing 120
article thumbnail

Building Trends: An Old Material Becomes New Again

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Technology companies are creating tools like bricklaying robots and printing houses with 3D printers. In Portland, Oregon, home of the Viewpoint headquarters, a condo building recently caught our attention. As Green Construction Grows, So Could Cross-Laminated Timber. Interested in green construction?

Materials 227
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Magnesium.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life. Living Walls.

article thumbnail

Beach House in Oregon has Many Natural Features

Natural Building

This Cannon Beach house, built in 2005, has a green roof planted in sedum and wild strawberries and is clad with cedar shakes. One door was rescued from a historic Portland house facing demolition. Towering incense cedar tree trunks, cut from a sustainable forest in Northern California, serve as captivating pillars.

Oregon 40
article thumbnail

Concrete’s cobra effect: unintended results of embodied carbon reduction

Construction Specifier

While some of the population searched under houses and in bushes to find these creatures, others saw a business opportunity and established cobra farms to maintain a more consistent supply of snakes. This remedial work is not only expensive and time consuming, but undermines the very effort to be sustainable.

article thumbnail

EPA Provides Technical Assistance Towards Sustainability Goals

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that 43 communities—rural, urban and suburban—will receive technical assistance to pursue sustainable growth that encourages local economic development while safeguarding people’s health and the environment. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Portland, ME.

article thumbnail

Indoor Marijuana Growing Accounts for Over 1% of all Electric Consumption in the U.S.

Green Building Law Update

A sharp increase in electrical use in a house has been used by police as probable cause to issue a search warrant for illegal marijuana cultivation. ” Indoor Marijuana Growing Kaplow LEED Stuart Kaplow Sustainability green building law growing pot'