Articles tagged with: architecture
architecture, BetterBricks Awards, energy efficiency
Each year BetterBricks hosts an awards ceremony in four cities throughout the Northwest to celebrate the accomplishments of green building professionals. The aim is to both recognize energy efficiency achievements in commercial buildings as well as inspire others to embrace high performance buildings. After all, buildings consume more than 40…
architecture, Greenbuild, integrated design
Continuing on from yesterday’s session on European experience.
We find that in Europe the time frame for building planning is longer, maybe even centuries. In the US we think in decades. Europe also has codes informed by their culture. Codes require every worker having access to views outside, not just…
architecture, building performance, Codes, Greenbuild
Greetings from GreenBuild in a very warm Phoenix. It is truely an international crowd here. Yesterday was the World Green Building Congress with representatives from everywhere from United Arab Emirates to Germany, Australia, France, numerous Latin American countries and even the USA. I didn’t attend that event, but I’ve seen…
architecture, building performance, buildings, energy consumption data, energy efficiency
How do you approach the topic of building energy performance with your clients? It can be an elusive subject because it’s commonly addressed from two different perspectives: in relative terms, such as percent better than a building just built to code levels, or in absolute terms, as energy units (kWh…
architecture, buildings, energy efficiency, integrated design
BetterBricks is a regular sponsor of Cascadia’s Transformational Lecture Series (TLS) – an ongoing speaking circuit that invites some of the most accomplished figures in the world of green building to share their insights, wisdom and experience with those in the industry. In addition to funding the series, BetterBricks conducts interviews…
architecture, building, energy efficiency, Integrated Design Lab
Ten years ago, BetterBricks brought leading architecture firm SRG Partnership together with the University of Oregon’s Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory to design a high performance building using a research based approach. The team’s single-project collaboration has now evolved into a lasting partnership that’s transformed the firm’s design leaders and hit upon a…
architecture, buildings, efficiency, energy, integrated design
Welcome to Rethink Energy and Design. As manager of the BetterBricks Commercial Design initiative at the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with some of the best minds in the world on sustainable high performance design, and many of those are right here in the Northwest. As a result, BetterBricks is constantly in the flow of information related to energy efficiency in buildings. We also produce a lot of our own. We’d like to share some of that. Rethink Energy and Design is here to provide building professionals a platform to connect, collaborate and otherwise participate in the dialogue around energy and our built environment.
