Open House for Taltree ecoVillage

This Saturday YS Development will be hosting an “open house” for their Taltree ecoVillage project.  The purpose of this open house will be to meet with interested parties and to share the details of this pioneering community development.  What’s so very interesting about this project aside from it’s green building approach and site features such including underground [...]

Spray foam and EcoBatts for 1105 dwell

Over the course of these posts following the construction of Dwell Development’s latest project, 1105 dwell we have touched on many of the steps they have taken to increase the energy efficiency of their homes.  We have talked about the Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS) that form the exterior envelope of the homes, the Heat Recovery [...]

February 2010 Green Home Tour

For this month’s tour we will be visiting Beau Developments new urban lofts project in Seattle’s Judkins Park Neighborhood.  This community of homes are very unique not only for their extensive use of green building materials, but for the fact that they will be the first homes in the city of Seattle to be certified under [...]