This session has passed. You can find a recording of the event here This session will use the recently completed Concourse E Extension at Portland International Airport (registered LEED Gold) as a case study for centering occupant experience and sustainability in aviation design. We will provide a brief overview of project sustainability and occupant comfort [...]

The annual Oregon Committee on The Environment (COTE) Green Champion Summit brings to you the sustainability leaders from around the country and the region. This year the summit will focus on creating space for inclusive and sustainable communities by highlighting some of the plans and funding in place within the City of Portland to ensure [...]

This event has passed. You can find a recording of the event here. Join Bora’s Green Team as we discuss how Bora’s sustainable vision for the future includes a balanced approach to Health, Equity, and Carbon through our work and practices as a firm. Discussions will touch upon this summer's OASE/DEQ research internship focusing on [...]

“Sustainability and Cultural Placemaking - the Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center at the University of Oregon” - presented by Brian Cavanaugh, AIA Tuesday*, October 13, 2020 | 5:00 – 6:00 | 1 AIA LU|HSW Available * Note – the DDS this week will occur on Tuesday to allow participation in Sustainable Building Week events. This presentation [...]

Transition Projects’ Argyle Gardens, designed by Holst and built by ModsPDX and Walsh Construction, is the first buildout of a flexible, affordable, low-cost housing prototype called LISAH (Low Income Single Adult Housing). Argyle Gardens opened in April 2020, welcoming formerly homeless and very low-income Portlanders in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project has [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. Sustainable Buildings for All (SB4A) is an effort to create an incentive policy to accelerate climate action in the building industry in Portland while centering equity and racial justice. This effort has been in progress for several years, has a continuously growing coalition of stakeholders, [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. As part of Sustainable Building Week 2020, Manufacturers for Transparency (MfT) is hosting an event focused on the experience of general and sub-contractors in this industry as it moves toward more transparency building products. General contractors and sub-contractors operate in the space between architects/designers and [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. Please Join the TallWood Design Institute along Dr. Mark Fretz and Dr. Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg of University of Oregon’s College of Design as they discuss their research investigating wood as a modern building material, and specifically, its impacts on environmental and human health and [...]

Portland Materials Transparency Collaborative (PMTC) invites you to the “2020 Materials Summit”. This discussion is part of the 3rd Annual Portland Sustainable Building Week, October 12-23, 2020. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, our event will be virtual this year. Join this discussion via Zoom from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. PDT on October 16. As designers, [...]

The AIA Oregon Virtual Happy Hour is open to all who wish to get together and share experiences, ask questions, and connect with and support each other, focusing on various topics. The events will run an hour or more - feel free to drop in and out at any time during the event. You do [...]

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 you can expect: First, THE BUILD: During the Salvage Showdown, up to 8 individuals or teams will compete to build the most interesting/beautiful/creative/weird piece of [...]

This event has passed. You can find the recording here. Master of Ceremonies Eric Corey Freed, RA, LEED Fellow A recognized and inspirational voice, Eric has authored 11 books on sustainable building design, has been featured in media ranging from the New York Times and CNN to HGTV, Good Morning America and Sundance Channel, and [...]

While considering embodied carbon is critical to making climate-smart buildings, it can also distance and abstract the impact of our choices. We'll study how our wood selection and specifying shapes local forests – for better and worse. The Pacific Northwest is the nation's 'wood basket' with 28 percent of the nation’s softwood lumber supplied from [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. The ZERO Coalition has developed a streamlined infographic tool for builders, designers, and others in the sustainable building industry to be able to easily see how to achieve zero energy building without breaking the bank...or the budget. Each step has its own purpose, strategies, and resources to [...]

This event has passed. You can find the recording here. Natural gas accounts for over 50% of the recent carbon dioxide growth in the past few years, leading some policymakers to look at building decarbonization to meet local climate goals. Designers are seeking new technologies to reduce carbon and meet these policies through all-electric and [...]

This event has passed. You can find the recording here. Join the Electrification Coalition for a presentation as part of Sustainable Building Week! Electrification is emerging as a powerful new trend in high performance home building. Exciting technologies such as heat pumps and induction stoves combined with a dramatically cleaner electrical grid are convincing many [...]

This event has passed. You can find the recording here. Join Forth and Nuvve for a webinar on how Electric Vehicles interact with buildings as part of Electrification Day at Sustainable Building Week. For this webinar, Forth will present on the best practices for EV-ready building codes, plus an introduction to the early learnings from a [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. Please join us for a virtual tour of the Mahlum Portland Studio and live discussion with Mahlum Architects, Perlo Construction and Sustainable Northwest Wood. Completed November 2019, the 7,500 square foot tenant improvement project located in the historic 1950’s Custom Blocks Building is the first [...]

This course will provide attendees with foundational knowledge of embodied carbon in building materials. We will begin by reviewing the global environmental impact of embodied carbon in construction, and then discuss strategies for how it can be measured, compared, and reduced. The course will identify key impact areas and building systems, and describe best practices [...]

This course will provide attendees with in-depth examples of how project teams are calculating, analyzing, and reducing the embodied carbon of their buildings and portfolios. The first case study will explore the tradeoffs between upfront embodied carbon “costs” and long-term operational energy savings on an historic high school modernization project. The project team will share [...]

Note: this was a two-part event. You can find recordings here for Part 1 and Part 2. 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 Oregon for two premier virtual explorations of zero [...]

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 on Women in the Sustainable Building Industry. Women represent a very small percentage of the overall workforce in the construction industry, but their numbers are [...]

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 piece of furniture using only reclaimed materials from the ReBuilding Center. Builders work in their own spaces over the course of one month. Anything (really, [...]

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 concepts of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, uncovering implicit biases, and actions to implement immediate change. The second workshop will take a deeper look at [...]

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 and state governments, including California, Colorado, Illinois, Washington, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Hawaii are enacting laws that mandate major carbon reductions by 2030 and call [...]

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 choosing wires over (gas) pipes and how operational costs and operational emissions compare. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-electric-versus-gas-comparing-costs-for-new-residential-construction-tickets-169317728885

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 it is increasingly clear that we are all impacted by climate change, though the impacts vary across communities. We know that those who are most [...]

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 building will be the first fully certified Living Building in Portland and largest urban commercial Living Building in the world. The design is integrated into [...]

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 building will be the first fully certified Living Building in Portland and largest urban commercial Living Building in the world. The design is integrated into [...]

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 per year in an average home. Heat Pump Water Heaters use a quarter of the energy of a standard water heater while still providing all [...]

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 needs. This interpretation is inherently altruistic, cautioning us that our actions might negatively impact others far off in the future. Shift forward just a single [...]

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 they provide, and their connections to your life and work. Into the Woods explores: The unique and surprising traits and needs of more than twelve [...]

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 Slam. Plus, you'll be sent links to Replays of all sessions after the event. Earlybird pricing is available through 9/17/2021 so register soon: https://northwestgreen.org/ticketing/

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 design process, materials procurement, and collaborations forged to bring this inspiring project to life, beautifully reflecting the organization's equity & inclusion values. Moderated by Paul [...]

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 industry and mapping the resources for deconstruction and material reuse across the U.S. Yarden Harari AIA, LEED AP (BD+C, ID+C, O+M) Yarden is a licensed [...]

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 demand flexibility with smart technologies and electric appliances. These solutions help reduce peak electric loads, which will be essential to providing a reliable clean energy [...]

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 to the completed project and key considerations at each phase of design and construction. Following the mass timber presentation we will provide a virtual tour [...]

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 global challenge of waste and how it, in turn, impacts climate change and our local community. Leaders from Oregon's forestry, apparel, and food industries will [...]

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 referred to as the neighborhood’s “front porch”, and a front lawn where the community has gathered for 100-years. The $138 million, 1,800-student modernization answered the [...]

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 About this event Note: the virtual segment of the Go Zero Tour 2021 is a two-part webinar, see below Residential buildings account for almost a [...]

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 qualifying commercial new construction and major renovation projects. This overview will cover program offerings and resources to help you reach your energy goals including: Whole Building and [...]

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 Coalition for Electrification Week in partnership with Sustainable Building Week - promoting sustainable building practices. Electrification Week explores 5 topics relating to building electrification. This [...]