Articles in the Design and Construction Category
BetterBricks, building owners and managers association, energy efficiency, LEED, northwest energy efficiency alliance, oregon health and sciences university, post occupancy evaluation, toby awards
Oregon Health and Sciences University is once again taking center stage for its super efficient Center for Health & Healing building in Portland’s South Waterfront district. The Building Owners and Managers Association International recently honored the building with its Outstanding Building…
case study, energy efficiency, integrated design, LEED, rocky mountain institute
The aim of Rocky Mountain Institute’s Built Environment Team (BET) is to transform the built environment into a sustainable and regenerative global ecology. With an emphasis on achieving energy efficiency through integrated design, the BET has contributed to numerous high-performance projects throughout the world. Two of the projects they’ve worked…
AIA, bnim architects, bob berkebile, building, buildings, claire johnson, design, don horn, efficiency, energy, energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy performance, Energy Use Index, engineer, Green, green buildings, Greenbuild, high performance, integrated design, LEED, northwest energy efficiency alliance, STEFFEN, sustainability, sustainability experts, WMIG, zgf architects
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s BetterBricks initiative congratulates the Seattle AIA 2010 What Makes It Green Award winners and the Seattle AIA and Seattle COTE for an outstanding program and process. The program culminated in the 11th annual awards event held…
angel abbey, energy, energy efficiency, energy loads, integrated design, iterative design, LEED, mount angel, natural lighting, northwest energy efficiency alliance, oregon middle school, platinum certification, solar roof tiles, solarc, todd hess building company, university of oregon
Students in one Portland, Oregon middle school just earned some serious bragging rights among their peers. The Evans – Harvard High Performance Classroom at the da Vinici Arts Middle School was recently awarded LEED platinum certification – the first K-12 public school building to achieve this…
architecture, architecture firms, Clark Brockman, design, dlr group, engineer, Green, green architecture, John Breshears, northwest architects, oregon convention center, Portland, sustainable projects, zgf architects, zimmer gunsul frasca
Portland is once again on the national stage, but this time it’s not the New York Times touting the city’s epic eateries (thanks for the nod, but enough already). Architect Magazine released its second annual ranking of green architecture firms and two of the top ten firms…
building, daylighting, design, efficiency, energy, energy efficiency, Energy Use Index, engineer, Green, high performance, Hospitals, integrated design, Integrated Design Lab, low energy, medical industry, nbbj, northwest energy efficiency alliance, performance prototype, sustainability, Targeting 100!, thermal energy storage, university of washington
A groundbreaking new research effort reveals how hospitals, which account for four percent of all energy consumed in the U.S., can achieve a 60 percent reduction in energy utility use by redesigning the way they use energy. A newly constructed, code-compliant hospital in the Northwest following the process…
architecture, building, David Cook, design, engineer, LEED, LEED-rated, Pietro Belluschi, Portland, sustainability, Transsolar, university of oregon
Another great opportunity to hear from a leading European practitioner presents itself for Portland area building professionals and students.
David Cook of Behnisch Architekten, and currently the Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor in Architecture at the University of Oregon School of Architecture, will be speaking at the U of O White Stag…
building, buildings, design, designintelligence, energy, energy efficiency, space utilization
A recent DesignIntelligence blog post has an interesting posting relating icebergs to buildings. This is particularly apropos to energy efficiency in buildings. DesignIntelligence is the Design Futures Council’s bi-monthly report.
“Like buildings, icebergs come in all shapes and sizes. They can be beautiful and also a little…
building, energy, integrated design, royal insititute of chartered surveyors
The building envelope is an essential component and area of opportunity in the design, engineering and operation of ultra-low energy buildings. Rather than serving as a static enclosure, it has the potential to redirect and filter daylight, provide natural ventilation, manage radiant heat transfers, and create visual and physical connections…
BetterBricks Awards, building, buildings, energy, energy efficiency, Green, high performance, integrated design, nbbj, post occupancy evaluation, zgf architects
The fifth annual Puget Sound BetterBricks Awards wrapped up a few weeks and ushered in a new batch green building overachievers. The aim of these Awards are to both recognize energy efficiency achievements in commercial buildings as well as inspire others to embrace high performance buildings.
This year’s Award…
