A 600 ft. 3D printed home is fully recyclable and highly insulated with 100% wood insulation and customizable R-values. Construction waste was nearly eliminated due to the precision of the printing process.
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Oregon Tradeswomen’s Career Fair
There are incredible opportunities for debt-free career training in the skilled construction trades. Oregon Tradeswomen
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Oregon Tradeswomen’s 2021 Career Fair
Thank you for your interest in Oregon Tradeswomen’s Annual Career Fair, one of the most exciting and engaging career fairs in our region dedicated to the construction industry! In 2020, we had to cancel our event due to COVID-19, and with the continued unknowns for large events in 2021, we have made the difficult decision to cancel our annual Career Fair again this year. This decision was not made lightly, as each year, this incredible event connects thousands of students and jobseekers to the wide variety of exciting careers in the skilled construction trades. NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center 16021 NE Airport Way, Portland Oregon’s Construction Industry has a shortage of…
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Solar Oregon Presents Passive House 101
Solar Oregon and Passive House Northwest present: Passive House 101 July 9, 2019 – 6 – 8 pm Shine Distillery – 4232 N Williams Ave Portland Join Solar Oregon for an evening discussion on how Passive House– the world’s most energy efficient building certification– and solar PV can be the easiest path to healthy, comfortable, and durable Zero Energy buildings. Joshua Salinger, CEO of Birdsmouth Design/Build and board member of Passive House Northwest will discuss what Passive House is, it’s history, it’s methods, and why it matters. 40% of the energy used in the U.S. goes towards our buildings – this is more than the energy used in transportation and industry combined! Learn…
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Western JUNIPER: Wood that Checks all the Boxes
100 years ago, walking across the expanse of Eastern Oregon would have revealed sprawls of sagebrush and native grass, pockmarked with the occasional juniper tree. Fast forward to today, and those picturesque western landscapes have become overgrown with juniper trees. Due largely to modern day fire suppression, junipers, a “native invasive,” have expanded from one million acres at the turn of the 20th century to a staggering 10 million acres today. Junipers are a thirsty tree, drinking up to 35 gallons of water per day in a high desert ecosystem that is already plagued by drought. As the trees expand, they push out sagebrush and grass, which affects vulnerable species…
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Oregon Tradeswomen’s Career Fair
The Building Industry in Oregon is experiencing a worker shortage. Oregon Tradeswomen, a Portland nonprofit organization, produces our annual Career Fair to connect career seekers with job openings, ap-prenticeship, and other training opportunities with local companies and organizations.
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Urban Lumber
Several years ago while renovating a landscape for an older home being flipped by a realtor, my whole thinking about lumber completely changed.
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Building Green Made Simpler
Choose Your Level of Green Construction To a lot of people, building green means costly, complicated, and confusing, but it is getting easier as designers and builders find simpler ways of doing things. Structures NW llc of Vancouver, using their 10 plus years of experience building with Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), has come up with a unique system that makes building green simpler. They created a three level system of pre-designed green construction templates that fit the Northwest climate zone; Green, Greener and Greenest. Green uses a 6” SIP wall that provides a true R-21.7 whole wall R-Value as determined by the Oak Ridge National Labratory. Combined with a 10”…
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Turning a Brown Field Green
The land at NE 82nd and Siskiyou has a checkered past. It is a former landfill, capped in 1982. Many of those living and working in the Madison South and Roseway neighborhoods have seen this area attract unwanted activities and attention. The site has remained derelict, despite its tremendous potential for the neighborhood, city and region. The Dharma Rain Zen Center, a Soto Zen Buddhist temple, sees great potential in the Siskiyou property for a new campus that is sustainable, beautiful and benefits their congregation and the neighborhood alike. They plan to create an attractive, compatible, low-impact campus that serves the community. They will: Restore the 14-acre parcel to a…
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Simplicity Is the Way
When I started my journey beyond the borders of my upbringing, I learned that simplicity was the way. I built a cabin on the back of a flatbed truck with a six-cylinder engine. You know, the kind of engine where you could see the parts and knew what they did. I found my way to a cabin in a canyon with a spring, a cow and an outdoor shower. I learned to make bread in a wood cook stove, to churn butter and raise honeybees. I went to work and came home tired from a day well spent on producing something tangible. I know simplicity is the way, but like…
