Understanding the Value of Commissioning
June 11, 8:30AM-12:30PM
Natural Capital Center (Ecotrust), 721 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR More Info
Green Building Codes and Policies Workshop
June 27, 9AM-5PM
Floral Hall, VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak St., Vancouver, BC More Info
Greening the Building Code
June 29, 8:30AM-Noon
Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR More Info
EVENTS - OREGON
PLUG
June 14, 7:30-9AM
Interface Engineering, 708 SW Third Ave, Suite 400, Portland, OR More Info
EVENTS - WASHINGTON
TOLUG
June 7, 7:30-9AM
McGranahan Architects, 2111, Pacific Ave, Suite 100, Tacoma, WA More Info
SLUG: Tools for Integrating LEED into Mixed-Use Development
June 12, 7:30-9AM
Integrated Design Lab, 400E Pine St Suite #100, Seattle, WA More Info
Inland LUG: Raised Floor Systems and LEED
June 13, 7:30-8:30AM
Coffman Engineers, 10 N. Post, Suite 500, Spokane WA More Info
BRITISH COLUMBIA
LEED Canada- NC Technical Review
June 21, 8AM-4:30PM
Victoria Convention Centre, 720 Douglas St, Victoria, BC More Info
LEED for Construction
June 22, 7:30AM-12PM
Victoria Convention Centre, 720 Douglas St, Victoria, BC More Info
ADDITIONAL EVENTS
Building Complete Communities: Developers Leading the Way June 1, 8AM-5PM
Marriott Pinnacle, 1128 West Hastings St, Vancouver, BC More Info
Regional Sustainability Tour of Sweden-Denmark
June 2-8
Sweden/Denmark More Info
Solar Now! Basics of Going Solar Workshop
June 6, 6:30-8PM
Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave, Second Floor, Portland, OR More Info
Sustainable Building Advisor Program: Informational Meeting
June 6, 6-8PM
Multnomah County Library, 801 SW Tenth Ave, Portland, OR More Info
Low Cost Operational Adjustments to Improve Energy Performance June 6, 11AM-1PM
World Trade Center, Portland, OR More Info
ReTHINK Series: Green Heating and Cooling
June 7, 6-8:30PM
Ecotrust Building, 721 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR More Info
Spokane Sustainability Forum: The Built Environment
June 7, 8AM-4:30PM
The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Auditorium, Spokane, WA More Info
Michael Hanemann: a Different Architecture for Climate Change Policy
June 8, 2-5PM
Smith Center 338 (Vanport Room), Portland State University, Portland, OR More Info
Release of the Rain Garden Installation Manual
June 11, 6PM-8:30PM
Pierce County Environmental Service Building, WA More Info
LEED Seattle Speaker Series: ASHRAE 189, Standards for Sustainable Design
June 14, 5:30-7:30PM
The Bertha Landis Room, City Hall, 601 5th Ave, Seattle, WA More Info
Sustainability Tour: Technology June14, 6-8PM
Portland, OR More Info
Greening Your Bottom Line
June 14, 7:30AM-11AM
Bertha Landes Room, City Hall, 600 4th Ave, Seattle, WA More Info
Green Living Workshops: Rainwater Harvest for the Home
June 18, 7-8:30 PM
Roosevelt Square Whole Foods Market, 1026 NE 64th St., Seattle, WA More Info
It's the Money '07
June 20, 7:45AM-Noon
Tower Club, Columbia Center, 76th Floor, 701 5th Ave, Seattle, WA More Info
Northwest EcoBuilding Guild: Why not do Deconstruction?
June 27, 6:45-9PM
Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave, Seattle, WA More Info
City of Seattle IDP Training Session: Introduction to IDP
June 28, 8AM-5PM
Location TBA, Seattle, WA More Info
City of Seattle IDP Training for IDP Facilitators
June 29, 8AM-1PM
Location, TBA, Seattle WA More Info
Sustainabilty Tour: Culture June 28, 6-8PM
Portland, OR More Info
Construct Seattle
Sep. 26, 11AM-6PM
Sep. 27, 9:30AM-3PM
Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA More Info
Green and High Performance Buildings Conference Sep 28, Portland, OR More Info
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New Cascadia Website and Living Building Challenge Community Forum
Cascadia is thrilled to announce the launch of our new website – just the beginning in a transformation that will bring more resources and more information to the building community throughout the Pacific Northwest. The website is the latest component of our new identity roll-out and will make it easier to find information on our organization and the resources we provide. It is our intention to provide the most compelling and informative green building website in the country. Be sure not to miss the Living Building Challenge Community Forum which provides access to the 1st version of the Living Building Challenge User’s Guide and related tools. The time is right to join the community and help shape the future of this exciting international program! Sign up today! www.cascadiagbc.org
New Cascadia Positions
The Cascadia Region Green Building Council is currently hiring for two new staff positions.
Pharos Materials Protocol Outreach Coordinator – a research and outreach position built around the missing ‘nutrition label’ for building products. The Pharos tool, jointly developed by the Healthy Building Network and Cascadia promises to transform how we understand and share information on the environmental and social dimensions of our specifications. Click Here for the full position description.
Living Building Challenge Program Manager – the individual who will be responsible for day-to-day management of the program, ongoing research, its technical development and its supporting tools. A high level of green building expertise will be required. Click Here to view the full position description.
Cascadia’s New Seattle Office
Cascadia has moved its Seattle
office to new storefront location in beautiful Pioneer Square. The new
Seattle address is 410 Occidental Ave. S. Over the next three months we
intend to turn this beautiful and historic space into a showcase of
green practices. The space will include a free resource library,
bookstore, project showcase and the offices for our Washington-based staff. We are actively looking for corporate sponsors to help us outfit
the space and become part of the new green building hub for the region.
Stay tuned over the next few months for photos of the wonderful
transformation.
ASHRAE 189P Public Comment Period In 2006, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the US.Green Building Council, and the Illuminating Society of North America (IESNA), with the assistance of the AIA, embarked on a project to develop a model code that provides legal standards for high performance, green buildings that would apply to all buildings except low-rise residential buildings (Standard 189). The 1st public review draft of Standard 189P is now available for review and comment. The 45-day public review ends July 9, 2007. More Info
Cascadia LEED Statistics
As of 5/1/07
Certified Projects
Registered Projects
OR-46
OR-231
WA-58
WA-319
BC-28
BC-147
LEED-NC Version 2.2 Flash Cards!
Cascadia has updated our “Flash Cards” to Version 2.2 Click Here
Women in Green
Is there a greener gender? Studies show that women are more likely than men to support environmental causes through voting, activism, and consumer choices. What are the implications for the design industry? Does sustainable design have special appeal for women, and do they in turn offer something unique to the field? In Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design, Kira Gould and Lance Hosey explore these questions through informal conversations with architects, designers, consultants, policymakers, educators, and students. What they find is that women may be changing how we all see our world and our work. Click Here to Order
The Beauty of Green
Watch The New York Times video tour. More Info
"Last Call" for free listings in Ecotone's Directory of Who's Who in Green Building
Listings in Who’s Green® consist of profiles and contact information for the principal firms and organizations involved in the North American green building industry. The categories represented in Who’s Green® 2008 will be;
Architecture Firms
MEP Engineering Firms
Green Consulting Firms
Green Building Organizations and Non-Profits
Schools of Architecture with a green focus
Interior Design Firms
Builders with Green expertise
Landscape Architectural Firms and Civil Engineering Firms
Green Building Support Services (Law Firms, Financial Institutions, PR Firms)
Developers of Green Properties
The 2008 directory will also include feature articles on innovative green projects, “The Living Building Challenge”, materials selection, plus interviews with prominent green building personalities, and editorial contributions from influential industry leaders. More Info
High Performance Building Program
BC Hydro’s High Performance Building (HPB) program provides Power Smart energy efficient solutions and savings for qualifying new construction projects. More Info
The Entrepreneurial Forester
Each issue of The Entrepreneurial Forester provides information on current forestry news, innovative forest management, certification, value-added processing, niche marketing, small business case studies, and other useful resources. More Info
FSC Design Competition
Design a winning house made of FSC certified wood products and win a free badge to GreenBuild 2007. All applications must be received by 5:00pm (PST), Friday, June 29th, 2007. More Info
Multifamily Green Building Guidelines
A comprehensive resource for architects and project managers, including 63 recommended measures and 8 case studies More Info
Okanagan Reuses The on-line trading post is intended to help people in the Okanagan-Similkameen reuse items they don't need by giving, selling or trading them to others.
More Info
Top 10 Green Building Products 2006 and Green Real Estate Guide 2006
Download these free supplements to Sustainable Industries Journal. More Info
Energy Trust New Buildings Program
Energy Trust of Oregon’s New Buildings program is hitting the road. Program managers will be at a location near you. They would like to meet with you one-one to help you learn about how you can leverage incentives to make your new building or major renovation more energy efficient More Info
Green Building Playing Cards
Cascadia is excited to offer Green Building Playing Cards. These full decks of cards offer a creative and fun way to educate and inspire people to adopt green building practices.
Click Here to Order.
City of Issaquah Zero Net Energy Demonstration Project RFQ
The City of Issaquah is seeking a builder for a high profile, cutting edge, attached residential green building demonstration project which, at completion, would be one of the most innovative sustainable housing projects in the Pacific Northwest
More Info
Green Energy TV
Green Energy TV is dedicated to sharing with millions of viewers, the success stories that are occurring with Green Energy Projects. These projects include: Solar Energy, Wind Power, Hydro Power, Hydrogen, Biomass, Biofuels, Geothermal, Fuel Cells, Wave/Tidal Energy, Energy Conservation, Recycling and Hybrid vehicles. More Info
Washington State Green Building Financial Incentives
Includes, rebates, grants, and tax incentives for building green in the state of Washington. More Info
Solar Incentives for Washington State Residents
Includes Federal, State, and Local incentives for going solar. More Info
A LEED of Faith
by Jessica Woolliams, Canadian Architecture Read More
LEEDing on Formaldehyde in California
by Tom Lent, Healthy Building Network Read More
Mithun and Perkins + Will Win Green Design Contest
by Katie Zemtseff, Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce Read More
Visionary Ideas Turn Blight Into Green
by Katie Zemtseff, Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce Read More
Portland's Living Building Will Be Costly Experiment
by Katie Zemtseff, Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce Read More
Structural integrity: Sustainability expert Mike O'Brien builds his dream house
by Ruth Mullen, The Oregonian Read More
Canada's first LEED Platinum wins
by Patricia Williams, Daily Commercial News More Info
Green building: City should lead by example
Daily Herald More Info
USGBC's Templeton testifies before congress about green building
by Taryn Holowka, Building Design and Construction More Info
Cascadia is hiring a
Pharos Materials Protocol Outreach Coordinator, and a Living Building Challenge Program Manager More Info
Cascadia's mission is to promote
the design, construction and operation of buildings in Oregon, Washington
and British Columbia that are environmentally responsible, profitable and
healthy places to live, work and learn.
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