Oregon BEST Hosts Green Building Workshop

More than 90 Oregon architects, green developers, representatives of renewable energy companies, building contractors, and university researchers attended an Oregon BEST-hosted green building workshop in Portland on February 17, 2009. Participants explored how business-university-government collaboration will speed continued growth of Oregon’s green building industry and could lead to a National Green Building Research Center located in the state. Read the news release. Below are links to the presentations, reports, and other information from that meeting:

PRESENTATIONS:

Dennis Wilde, Gerding Edlen

David Kenney, Oregon BEST

Oregon BEST Green Building Research & Faculty: Overview

Oregon BEST Green Building Faculty, Expertise, & Contact Info

Lisa Petterson, SERA Architects (Part I)

Lisa Petterson, SERA Architects (Part 2) 

Steve Straus, GLUMAC International

Johanna Brickman, ZGF Architects

REPORTS FROM BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
Meeting attendees divided into groups that discussed and reported on the following three areas.

Green Building Materials

Eco-Districts & Policies

Green Building Design Systems

INVENTORY OF BARRIERS:
Meeting attendees listed and discussed key barriers to widespread adoption of green building in the following areas, with emphasis on barriers that could be overcome with additional university research.

Materials Inventory

Building Design & Systems

Eco-Districts & Policies

Building Integrated Energy Generation Technologies

Performance Assessment