Green Building Working Meeting
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:
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.
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.
