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Contact: Aaron Stevens | Sustainable Building Week Public Relations info@sustainablebuildingweek.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCING PORTLAND’S THIRD ANNUAL SUSTAINABLE BUILDING WEEK September  2020 — Sustainable Building Week (SBW) has announced dates […]

2020 was supposed to be the year that finally fulfilled our Jetson’s dreams of getting the (electric) jet pack, and even if we didn’t get the flying car, we’d settle […]

Thank you all for attending making 2019 Sustainable Building Week the amazing week that it was. We had such positive feedback from all of you that we can’t wait for […]

Published in the DJC Oregon: A project team recounts its net-zero building experience In 2007, conceptualization began for a highly energy-efficient office building as part of a mixed-use development in […]

Published in the Oregonian: Tour old, new zero-energy homes that make more power than they use People living in the new Tillamook Row housing complex in Northeast Portland are expecting […]

Published in the DJC Oregon: Black Women Help Kick off Sustainable Building Week The notion of equity in design can have many different meanings. For instance, the U.S. Green Building Council […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Sustainable Building Week is underway and part of the eco-friendly effort is showing off zero-energy homes in Portland. Interviews with the Zero Energy Homes Tour

Published in the Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce: ‘Grassroots’ building industry conference on tap Sustainable Building Week was born of recognition that some of the Portland-area building industry organizations had overlapping […]

Published in Portland Architecture: Sustainable Building Week: reviving Portland’s lost momentum? There was a time 10-15 years ago in the early 2000s when the city seemed to be continually registering […]

Published in the The Skanner: Black Women Help Kick off Sustainable Building Week Join members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. at Portland’s first and only “green building” owned and […]

We are so proud of the Portland sustainability community for collaborating to develop a week of brilliant events that will inspire, educate, and provide networking opportunities. Currently we have 26 events on […]

I have long been inspired by our local influencers in high performance building and Portland’s efforts in moving the needle on all things Green. Being on the builder side of […]

Portland has a long history as a hub for Hippies and an incubator of Green innovators. Well before either of those were cool (“Keep Portland Weird” is a thing for […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCING PORTLAND’S SECOND ANNUAL SUSTAINABLE BUILDING WEEK May 2019 — Sustainable Building Week (SBW) has announced the dates for the second annual event-filled week for Portland’s AEC […]

Sustainable Building Week – Wow what a week!  It’s been a week and a half since the first annual Sustainable Building Week (SBW) ended and I think I am finally […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PORTLAND WELCOMES ITS FIRST EVER SUSTAINABLE BUILDING WEEK Download the press release October 8, 2018 — Kicks off the first annual Sustainable Building Week (SBW) an event-filled […]

The Northwest EcoBuilding Guild and Passive House NW are pleased to announce the slate of presenters for the Portland Green Building Slam, Friday, October 12, 2018, 6:30 – 10 pm, […]

Published in the Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce: Planning under way for first Sustainable Building Week Prior to the Great Recession, Portland was the “shining hill that everyone wanted to be” […]

At the turn of the century, Portland was the envy of burgeoning sustainable cities. We were paving bike lanes, recycling, constructing LEED-certified buildings, and planning for the greenest future possible. Then, […]

October 8, 2018 — Kicks off the first annual Sustainable Building Week (SBW) an event-filled week from a cross section of Portland’s design professional organizations. The week will bring the […]