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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. The post Beach House in Oregon has Many Natural Features appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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Largest Passive House structure in the U.S. to be built in Oregon

BD+C

The largest Passive House in the nation will be completed within a year in Hillsboro, Oregon, the Oregonian reports. Whereas the idea has spread quickly in Europe and by 2010 the continent had 25,000 of such structures, the United States has only about 100 Passive House projects.

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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 201
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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'

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Building.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Kelly Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life. Handmade Houses: the World of Vernacular Architect. After all, while it sounds great from a PR standpoint for a business to proclaim they are Going Green!, Name: Kelly Hart. Earth USA 2011.

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Two Week Natural Building Intensive

Natural Building

Smith co-founded the Cob Cottage Company, along with Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley, in Oregon in 1993. He wrote “The Cobber’s Companion” in 1996 and co-authored “The Hand-Sculpted House” (published by Chelsea Green, 2002) and “The Art of Natural Building (2nd edition, New Society, 2015).”

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Kengo Kuma, the architect behind Tokyo’s new and controversial Olympic National Stadium

Construction Test

Kengo Kuma is Japan’s architect of the moment and his building housing SunnyHills – the Tokyo home of a revered Taiwanese tropical fruit cake – could easily be mistaken for the headquarters of the Japanese chapter of the Pick Up Sticks Society. THE BAMBOO WALL HOUSE, COMMUNE BY THE GREAT WALL, CHINA. TRIP NOTES.