Oregon Conservation Center (Jeremy Bittermann)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
The Oregon Conservation Center Tour: Conversations about Conservation
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this guided tour of the Oregon Conservation Center, the newly remodeled Oregon headquarters of The Nature Conservancy. Working with Sustainable Northwest Wood, the designer Lever Architecture and Lease Crutcher Lewis were able to trace many of their wood materials back to the source. In this case, the cedar and juniper decking, siding and fencing for the Nature Conservancy project originated from Nature Conservancy lands. They utilized other locally fabricated materials including weathered steel and FSC-certified cross-laminated timber and glulam beams. The tour will be guided by Sustainable Northwest Wood president Ryan Temple along with project architect Timothy Cooke of Lever Architecture, followed by a discussion with members of The Nature Conservancy team. Oregon Conservation Center, 821 SE 14th Avenue. 8:30am Wednesday, October 16. Free.
Building to Net Zero
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this discussion meeting net-zero energy standards in conjunction with designing and building relative to extreme weather and climate change. A case study will be the event's venue itself: a new operations center recently completed as a part of the Northwest Housing Alternatives campus redevelopment designed by MWA Architects and constructed by O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders, which was certified as net-zero energy. Presenters Destin Ferdun of Northwest Housing Alternatives, Afton Walsh of Walsh Construction, Kristina Hauri and Bill Lanning of MWA Architects will share considerations, insights, and lessons learned when designing and building zero energy structures. Northwest Housing Alternatives, 2316 SE Willard Street. 11AM Wednesday, October 16. Free.
Building Diversity Game Changers
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this discussion presented by the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs and the National Association of Minority Contractors, which looks at equity in the building industry and features a group of minority business leaders and public agency equity advocates. Panelists include James Faison of Faison Construction, Nate McCCoy of the National Association of Minority Contractors, Summer Gorder of EcoReal Solutions, Dr. Derron Coles of the BluePrint Program, and Aidan Gronauer of Portland Public Schools. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 12PM Wednesday, October 16. Free.
Get the Gas Out!
As part of Sustainable Building Week, the American Society of Plumbing Engineers hosts a discussion about decarbonization of the domestic water heating system using heat pump technology. Heat pump water heaters use the same operating principle as an air-conditioner or domestic refrigerator. The heat pump gathers heat from the surrounding air, and through the refrigeration cycle, deposits the heat into water at a usable temperature. This principle of moving heat with a heat pump, rather than generating it by burning fossil fuel or electric resistance, makes water heating with heat pumps the best choice for conserving energy. Depending on the temperature of the source air or water, domestic water can be heated using one third to one fourth of the energy required by electric resistance or gas. PAE, 522 SW Fifth Avenue, #1500. 4PM Wednesday, October 16. Free.
A Walk in the Woods: Build Local Alliance Happy Hour Hike
As part of Sustainable Building week comes this informational hike with Michael Ahr, a forest conservationist at West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, and Peter Hayes of Hyla Woods. You’ve hiked our local dense forests plenty, and want to know more about the trees around you – how these trees grow and interact in the forest. This short hike from the lower MacLeay Trailhead provides that. Walk begins at Lower Macleay Trailhead, NW 29th Avenue and Upshur Street. 4:30PM Wednesday, October 16. Free.
Come to the Lab: Innovative Academic Research on Sustainability
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this event featuring architectural graduate students and faculty from the University of Oregon, Portland State University's Green Research Lab and Oregon State University's TallWood Design Institute. The event will showcase how academia is addressing sustainability by connecting research with course curriculum, preparing the next generation of leaders and laying the foundation for moving research into built projects. University of Oregon, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch Street. 5:30PM Wednesday, October 16. Free.
Small but Mighty Happy Hour
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this gathering of a few of the Portland area’s small firms designing leading-edge sustainable projects. We invite you to engage with these mighty heroes; see their work and share a drink. Writer and host Eric Corey Freed will be joined by presenters Michelle Bexelius and Tom Ifversen of DesignWell Studios, Caitilin Pope Daum and Kyla Tanaka of Studio Wild Landscape Architecture, and Lex Amore of Blue Practice. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 6PM Wednesday, October 16. Free.
Sustainability in the Details
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this talk featuring three from Holst Architecture: Kim Wilson, Cory Hawbecker, and Jake Watkins. Big moves and new technology get a lot of attention in the practice of sustainable design, but the careful detailing of the building envelope—walls, windows, roofs, and where they come together—can have an even larger impact on a building’s energy efficiency. This behind-the-scenes look into Holst’s design process will illuminate the careful design, detailing, and execution of the building envelope through case studies of completed projects in Portland and beyond. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 8AM Thursday, October 17. Free.
Zero Energy – A Foundation of Resilient Communities
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this moderated panel discussion featuring the Oaks Zero Energy Community at Rose Villa Senior Living, where sustainably-minded residents live out their environmental values among a welcoming culture that embraces and celebrates diversity. Representatives from Green Hammer and Rose Villa — including residents — will share some of the considerations made and lessons learned when designing and building The Oaks. Rose Villa Senior Living, 13505 SE River Road. 2PM Thursday, October 17. Free.
Growing Green Schools: Making the Green Schools Movement a District-Wide Initiative
As part of Sustainable Building Week, the Portland Green Schools Committee presents the last panel discussion in the 2019 panel series Growing a Green School. Speakers include Aaron Presberg, a senior program manager for energy and sustainability at Portland Public Schools, and Meghan Borato, a waste reduction specialist with Gresham Green Schools at the City of Gresham. The event will be followed by a reception and launch party co-hosted with the Center for Green Schools to officially kick off Portland as a host for the 2020 Green Schools Conference & Expo, coming in March 2020. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 4:30PM Thursday, October 17. Free.
Timber + Carbon: the PAE Living Building and the Story Behind Mass Timber
As part of Sustainable Building Week and as the latest meeting of Critical Mass (Timber), join representatives of the TallWood Design Institute alongside Karen Joslin and Rachel Wrublik of PAE Engineers as well as Lee Glassford of KPFF Engineers as they discuss the carbon story behind mass timber—material selection, carbon accounting and green certifications through the lens of their recent project, the PAE Living Building in Portland. Once completed, it will be the first living building in Portland, and the largest in Oregon. Tallwood Institute, 555 SW Morrison Street. 5PM Thursday, October 17. Free.
Passive House 101
As part of Sustainable Building Week, Josh Salinger of Birdsmouth and Beth Campbell of Green Hammer, with 35 years of combined construction experience, will take on your high performance building questions and leave you with a better sense of how construction in the region is headed in the right direction. his presentation will cover the basics of Passive House design and construction and will cover the history of Passive House, outline it’s benefits, show examples of Passive House buildings, explain how it works, describe strategies, and show why Passive House certification is so impactful in mitigating the climate crisis through the build environment. Ankrom Moisan, 38 NW Davis Street, Third Floor. 6PM Thursday, October 17. Free.
Designing a Carbon-Free Future: for Portland and Beyond
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this talk the Portland Collaborative, the International Living Future Institute and Gensler to explore what one can do, today, to ensure one's next project can achieve zero carbon benchmarks. In 2015 the Paris Agreement forged a world-wide consensus on an ambitious but achievable target: limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since then, scientists, local governments and businesses of all scales have grappled with the paths to a carbon-free future, but one thing is clear: the building industry must radically accelerate action starting now. Gensler, 811 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 300. 3PM Friday, October 18. Free.
2019 Reynolds Symposium: Education by Design
We are at a critical transition in architectural education—a transition that must propel schools to address the urgency of the multiple challenges facing our current environment. At this year's Reynolds Symposium, subtitled Education by Design faculty, practitioners, content experts, and students from 21 universities and four countries will present their inspiring, reflective, and effective lessons that represent a shift in the process from creating fossil-fuel-based communities, toward building environments that are healthy, resilient, and carbon-emissions free. University of Oregon, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch Street. Begins 5PM Friday, October 18 and continues through Sunday, October 20. $225 ($175 for UO faculty, $25 for UO students).
2019 Portland Green Building Slam
As part of Sustainable Building Week comes this event from the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild. The Portland Green Building Slam showcases cutting-edge projects and technologies aimed at bringing about substantial change in our regional building practices. This fun, educational event features ten fast-paced, mind-blowing talks about remarkable and innovative green building projects. Get ready to be inspired as ten innovators present sustainable and high performance projects in 10-minute segments. Vacasa, 850 Northwest 13th Avenue, Fifth Floor. 6PM Friday, October 18. $35 ($25 for Northwest EcoBuilding Guild members).
Goal Zero Tour
As part of Sustainable Building Week, this tour co-presented by Solar Oregon, Passive House Northwest, Earth Advantage, Green Hammer and the Home Performance Council of the Home Builders Association features a dozen ultra-efficient homes and the opportunity to learn the surprisingly simple, accessible, and innovate strategies that homeowners use for getting to zero. This open-house style tour will feature net-zero, net-zero-convertable, and zero-energy-ready homes in Portland. Tour begins at Spin Laundry Lounge, 2326 NE Broadway. 10AM Saturday, October 19. $20 (10 for Solar Oregon members).
Ladd's Addition Tour
Enjoy a stroll through this leafy enclave of early 20th century homes, churches, and businesses, not to mention yours truly for the past 18 years. This National Register Historic District is Oregon’s oldest planned community and in 2009 the American Planning Association honored it as one of America’s Great Places. Easily identifiable on any map, the neighborhood, once comprising the property owned by former Portland mayor William Ladd, eschews a traditional street grid for a series of circles dotted with rose gardens. As attendees on this Architectural Heritage Center tour will see, Ladd's Addition also boasts one of the largest tree canopies in the city, making it ideal for a spring or summer walk. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 110AM Saturday, October 19. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Gala 6 — Explore the Senses
Join Design Museum Portland for its second annual gala, entitled Gala 6 around the theme of exploring what arguably may be a sixth sense: design. Wear your most creative orange for the season’s most unique design event, mingling with attendees from the allied design fields, including commercial and residential architecture, interior design, construction, engineering, branding, and real estate. Desmond Marzette, global director of brand connections at Nike's Jordan Brand, will deliver the keynote address. Field Office, 1895 NW Front Avenue. 5:30PM Saturday, October 19. $225 ($175 for Design Museum Portland members).
The Looming Cascadia Earthquake – What You Need to Know
This lecture features Dr. Lucy Jones, a research associate in the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and the founder of its Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, the latter of which seeks to foster the understanding and application of scientific information in the creation of more resilient communities. In 2016, she completed 33 years of federal service with the US Geological Survey. Most recently, she led the creation of a national science strategy for all the natural hazards studied by the USGS to promote the science that would better prepare the nation for future natural hazards. In her recent book The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them), Dr. Jones offers both a look at how natural disasters have affected the course of history and how we can prepare for them. University of Oregon, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch Street. 4PM Tuesday, October 22. Free.
Building Air Leakage and Effects on the Building Envelope
This presentation from the Oregon chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute as part of its Learning & Libations series, is for architects and other design professionals interested in increasing their knowledge of the application and use of air barriers in the building envelope of commercial and multi-family residential buildings. Researchers, architects and code writers have shown that attention to specific details in both new and retrofitted envelopes result in better performing buildings with better comfort and long durability as well as lower energy consumption. Instructor Keith Schwarting is an expert in leak repair, diagnostics, long range capitol planning, budgeting, material technology, roof repair and maintenance, facade repair, quality detailing, quality specifications. 920 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 1300. 5:30PM Wednesday, October 23. $10 ($5 for students).
Women of Vision 2019
The annual Women of Vision educational and awards event, presented by the Oregon edition of the Daily Journal of Commerce, supports the women who are shaping our built environment with their leadership, mentoring efforts, community involvement and the promotion of industry diversity. This year the DJC is honoring 44 women in the building, design, and supportive industries. Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, 1401 SW Naito Parkway. 4:30PM Thursday, October 24. $95.
Pioneers to Postmodern: Downtown Walking Tour
Taking a whirlwind tour of Portland's architectural history via this downtown Architectural Heritage Center tour, attendees will learn about the first wooden structures near the river as well as the elaborate cast iron, stone and terracotta decorated buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From there one will be transported into the modern age and the sleek designs of Pietro Belluschi and the postmodernism of Michael Graves. Tour meetup revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Saturday, October 26 $20 ($12 for AHC members).
An Introduction to Portland’s Architectural Styles
In this Architectural Heritage Center talk, Thomas Hubka, an emeritus University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee architecture professor, looks at those architectural styles most common to the Portland area. Through photos and diagrams, Hubka will help attendees to better understand the details to look for in styles, including Greek Revival, Romanesque, Classical Revival, International, and even Post-Modernism. Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 10AM Saturday, October 26 $20 ($12 for AHC members).
South Park Blocks Walking Tour
This eleven-block portion of the downtown area was first platted and donated to the City of Portland in 1852, transforming a fire break parcel into the most desirable residential area of its day, complete with schools, playgrounds, stately homes and places of worship. On this Architectural Heritage Center tour one can take a stroll through the groves of elms and recount some of the stories they would love to tell about the area’s history and architecture. The South Park Blocks stand alone as a place of revitalization, refreshment and cultural allure. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Tuesday, October 29. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
InProcess with Guggenheim Studio and The Good Mod
As part of InProcess, a quarterly lecture series presented by AIA Portland exploring the creative process of local architects, designers, makers, and creators, comes this presentation from Jenny Guggenheim of Guggenheim Studio, a multidisciplinary creative atelier that integrates highly-considered architecture and rich interior environments, and Spencer Staley of furniture store and retorer The Good Mod. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 5:30PM Tuesday, October 29. Free.
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