SALVAGE SHOWDOWN 101   It’s a competition! It’s a party! It’s a fundraiser! It’s a builder’s dream! The Salvage Showdown is a friendly competition to showcase creative reuse. Here’s what [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. As part of Sustainable Building Week, please join Sustainable Northwest Wood for our next Sustainable Wood Story which will focus [...]

This event has passed. You can find the recording here. The Salvage Showdown is a friendly competition to showcase creative reuse. Eight builders will compete to construct the most interesting/beautiful/creative/weird [...]

ZERO is proud to present a two-session series of workshops focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the sustainable building industry. The first workshop will cover basic definitions and the [...]

This event has passed. You can find the recording here. Sustainability used to be voluntary for restaurant operators but, that approach did not produce results fast enough. Now, many local [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Join the Electrify Coalition for a deep dive on how much builders and homeowners can expect to save in construction costs in the Northwest by [...]

The annual AIAO COTE Green Champion Summit brings to you sustainability leaders from around the region and country. This year we gather to discuss the imperative for action now because [...]

Join PAE Principal Marc Brune and Associate Karina Hershberg for an in-person tour through the PAE Living Building. Located in the heart of Portland’s historic Skidmore/Old Town District, the mixed-use [...]

Join PAE Principal Marc Brune and Associate Karina Hershberg for an in-person tour through the PAE Living Building. Located in the heart of Portland’s historic Skidmore/Old Town District, the mixed-use [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Water heating accounts for 20% of a home's energy usage and a natural gas water heater will emit 2 to 3 tons of CO2 [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> In 1987, the UN defined sustainability as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own [...]

Join us for an inspiring, challenging, active, and fun walk in the woods of Tualatin Hills Nature Park to explore the native trees that grow in our forests, the wood [...]

3-Day event filled with conference style sessions, ending wtih the Green Building Slam on Friday evening. Full conference ticket includes entry to Keynote, Weds & Thurs Summit and Friday night [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Join us for a panel discussion on the award-winning headquarters for Meyer Memorial Trust. IN PERSON or ONLINE! Learn about the project goals, the [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> A discussion with guest speakers Yarden Harari (CallisonRTKL and All For Reuse) and Becca Dobosh (SERA) about material circularity in the architecture and building [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> In this free webinar we will explore how we can remake buildings into clean and flexible energy resources by combining energy efficiency, electrification and [...]

Mass timber is an emerging material able to create new connections in schools across the PNW. This presentation brings together a diversity of views tracing mass timber from the forest [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> For this year's Sustainable Building Week, Gensler Portland is bringing together innovators from Oregon's leading industries to discuss how their businesses are tackling the [...]

Part of Sustainable Building Week CEU Pending Located within Portland’s Grant Park, Grant High School is considered the center of its neighborhood, leveraging shared fields, open greenspace, an entry portico [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE (SEGMENT 1) >> VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE (SEGMENT 2) >> Premier, statewide tour of zero energy and "path-to-zero" homes in Oregon | virtual segment [...]

Whether your project is large or small, Energy Trust offers flexible incentive packages and technical guidance to help you reach your energy goals. Join us to learn about incentives for [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Level Up Your Cooking! Induction Cooking Solutions from Simple to Sublime with high performance options to fit your needs and desires Join the Electrify [...]

The ZERO Coalition is proud to present a training focused on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) in the sustainable building industry for the fourth annual Sustainable Building Week (SBW) - an event-filled week [...]

Timber bridges compose over a quarter of all bridges in North America, yet they compose only 7% of bridge expenditures on existing bridges mostly for maintenance. Meanwhile, new timber bridge [...]

New Annual Tour of New Construction Homes showcasing the best sustainable building practices and setting a benchmark for how future homes should be built to reach and exceed environmental demands [...]

Join USGBC Oregon during Portland Sustainable Building Week for a conversation about developing your own green building career path as an emerging professional by leveraging LEED and USGBC. Hear from [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Our panelists will discuss how weatherization and electrification programs and policies can best help energy burdened households lower their energy bills and create healthier [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Learn how the New Day School transformed an older Portland building into Oregon's 1st Zero Energy preschool! Green Hammer Design-Build will share their process [...]

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> (Required event registration) 3-Day event filled with conference style sessions, ending wtih the Green Building Slam on Friday evening. Register before 09/17 for early [...]

Efforts to Keep Portland Green are happening in a number of different ways.  Come for a night of short presentations by some of Portland’s most impactful social justice and sustainable [...]

Note: This is the official, in-person segment of the Go Zero Tour 2021. See below for important notes about site locations and event format. COVID vaccination and mask are required [...]

Sustainable Building Week invites you to monthly in-person networking events with fellow sustainable building enthusiasts. Sustainable Building Week networking is too much fun to keep it once a year. We’ll supply [...]

Residential buildings account for almost a quarter of all energy usage in the state of Oregon, and zero energy home design is an important strategy in climate adaptation. Join Solar [...]

Democratizing Decarbonization 1.5 AIA LU|HSW available The annual AIAO COTE Green Champion Summit brings to you sustainability leaders from around the region and country. This year we gather to discuss [...]

This year during the 5th Annual Sustainable Building Week, we'll harness our community knowledge and actions taken to measure and reduce embodied carbon of buildings. Join us for Pecha Kucha [...]