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2021 Northwest Green Building Summit

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

$30 – $200

Go Zero Tour 2021 – Virtual Segment

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

$6 – $40

Timber Bridges: the Old Becomes the New

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

Free

Student Voices | Climate Futures

Portland, OR, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Join OGS|PDX for a student-led discussion on climate futures and resilience. Students are demanding climate action in Portland and beyond. They are feeling the [...]

Free

Homes of Tomorrow Today Tour

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

$25

Building Your Career with USGBC

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

$12

Healthy Homes – Energy Efficiency, Electrification and Equity

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

Case Study: Oregon’s 1st Zero Energy Preschool

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

Free

2021 Northwest Green Building Slam

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

$35

Go Zero Tour 2021 – In-person Segment

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

$5 – $25

Sustainable Buildings Monthly

151 Southwest 1st Avenue portland, or 151 Southwest 1st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Sustainable Building can't wait until October! 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 [...]

Free

Virtual Event

Sustainable Building Monthly!

PAE 151 Southwest 1st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Sustainable Building Week networking is too much fun to keep it once a year. We’ll supply the drinks, light snacks, and a few topics of discussion. Bring your vaccinated self [...]

Free

Sustainable Building Monthly!

PAE 151 Southwest 1st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

Free

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING WEEK 2022!

Portland, OR, United States

October 10, 2022 kicks off the fifth annual Sustainable Building Week (SBW), an event-filled week from a cross section of Portland’s design professional organizations. The week will bring the best [...]

Free

Go Zero Tour 2022 In-Person Tour

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

$25 – $60

Green Champion Summit: Democratizing Decarbonization

Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

Free

Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies: Project examples and lessons learned

Mahlum, 1380 SE 9th Avenue Portland, Oegon 97214 1380 SE 9th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

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 [...]

Free

PHnw presents: Passive House 101 & Panelized Construction

151 Southwest 1st Avenue portland, or 151 Southwest 1st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

About this event From 5pm to 6:30pm, join Josh Salinger and Alex Boetzel of PHnw as they present an introduction and overview of the Passive House building methodology. Learn the [...]

Free

Clean Comfort for the Future Proof Home

Portland, OR, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Many have heard about heat pumps, and how important they are to addressing efficiency needs and reducing C02 emissions from buildings, but few have heard about Air to Water heat [...]

Green Building Fundamentals Course

LatinoBuilt 8548 Southwest Apple Way, Portland, OR, United States

Learn about Oregon’s current Green Building Market sector and the opportunities available for Latino Minority Contractors. About this event Participants Will Learn: Core Concepts of Green Buildings Green Building Rating [...]

Free

Reimagining Schoolyards in Our Communities

Portland, OR, United States

This panel builds on our work to provide outdoor learning and play opportunities at Oregon schools. We are working to bring together environmental consultants, landscape designers, and educators to explore [...]

Sustainable Visions for the Future of Portland

Rose Haven Day Shelter and Community Center 1740 NW Glisan St, Portland, OR 97209 1740 NW Glisan Street, Portland

How do we plan for and envision a future Portland that fosters more closely knitted and sustainable communities? In this event, Gensler Portland is bringing together designers and a group [...]

Free

ELEMENTAL: Reimagining our relationship with wildfire

Sustainable Northwest Wood 2701 SE 14th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Elemental takes viewers on a journey with the top experts in the nation to better understand fire. We follow the harrowing escape from Paradise as the town ignited from wind-driven [...]

$10

Net Zero Workforce Housing at Burnside Boardwalk (In-Person)

16047 East Burnside Street, Portland, OR, 97233 16047 E Burnside St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for breakfast and a morning tour of this innovative example of ultra-low energy residential construction. Burnside Boardwalk is a workforce housing development committed to demonstrating that high performance [...]

Free

Electrify Now’s All-Electric Commercial Kitchens – The Future of Dining

Portland, OR, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

All-Electric Commercial Kitchens - The Future of Dining Learn how electric solutions are revolutionizing the commercial kitchen, providing better cooking performance and a safer work environment About this event Join [...]

Free

Tour 1 of the new Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters

Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters, 2045 N Vancouver Ave, Portland, OR 97227 Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters, 2045 N Vancouver Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Tour 1 of the new Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters

Free

Tour 2 of the new Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters

Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters, 2045 N Vancouver Ave, Portland, OR 97227 Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters, 2045 N Vancouver Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Tour 2 of the new Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters

Green Schools Wins!

Portland, OR, United States

Join Oregon Green Schools to celebrate the wins in our community! We’ll hear from design professionals, students, and school districts in quick, informal presentations featuring sustainable schools and student leadership. [...]

Free

SBW Happy Hour: Skanska’s Journey to becoming NW’s first Salmon-Safe contractor

Skanska USA Building at 1010 NW Flanders St. Suite 500, Portland, OR 97209. Skanska USA Building at 1010 NW Flanders St. Suite 500, Portland, OR 97209., Portland, OR, United States

Learn about Salmon-Safe’s rigorous accreditation program to protect water quality, maintain watershed health and restore habitat and how Skanska, one of the largest construction and development companies in the world, [...]

Free

In Person-Oregon’s built environment: help us shape state policy & programs

Mahlum, 1380 SE 9th Avenue Portland, Oegon 97214 1380 SE 9th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

This event will be hybrid offering both virtual and in-person opportunities to share your thoughts. See registration links below. See DEQ’s Built Environment program page See DEQ’s Built Environment program [...]

Free

Window Design in the Era of Climate Change

Portland, OR, United States

VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Passcode: zYWr37^K Wildfire smoke, heat waves, utility interruptions, and airborne pathogens represent the emerging future in which we design. This session will feature case studies [...]

Electrify Now’s How to Electrify Equitably

Portland, OR, United States

About this event Join Electrify Now for Electrify Week! A series of webinars on electrification during Sustainable Buildings Week. Electrification offers benefits to every household: from improved indoor air quality that [...]

Free

Water Treatment, Energy Efficiency Strategy, and Marketing

Ecotrust Conference Center 721 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

AAEE - Columbia River Chapter is eager to present this energy efficiency forum as a hybrid event, both LIVE and online. This free event consists of a one hour technical [...]

Mass Timber Research Symposium at TallWood Design Institute

Oregon State University A.A. "Red" Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Laboratory 3205 SW Washington Way Corvallis, OR 97331 3205 SW Washington Way, Portland, OR, United States

TDI’s 2022 Mass Timber Research Symposium is an opportunity to learn about and discuss mass timber and mass timber research projects. Over twenty research projects will be reviewed in a [...]

Free

Home, Usurped: Housing Injustice and the Fight to Prosper While Black

June Key Delta Community Center 5940 N. Albina, Portland, OR, United States

Home, Usurped: Housing Injustice and the Fight to Prosper While Black An evening of short films and discussion about housing injustice. By ZERO Coalition About this event Home, Usurped: Housing Injustice [...]

Free

Homes of Tomorrow, Today

Portland, OR, United States

Tour newly-constructed homes throughout the Portland region, showcasing the best in sustainable building practices, comfort and durability - setting the benchmark for how future homes will be built to reach [...]

$25

Portland’s Panelized Construction Shop Tour

Resilient Framing Systems 3743 SE 21st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Come see how the homes of tomorrow are being factory built and site installed in days instead of months.   By pre-fabricating we can create better buildings at a better price [...]

Free

Uncovering Imbedded Inequities

Portland, OR, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Uncovering Imbedded Inequities A discussion: the unintended consequences of architectural specifications that promote Implicit Bias, Modern Slavery and Social Injustices VIEW THE RECORDED EVENT HERE >> Passcode: cJ8+M#7N About this [...]

Free

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