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 [...]