Special Behind the Walls Tour at YS Bellevue 41st Project

On Sunday, August 29th at 1:00pm please join us for a special tour of the latest project from YS Development.  The YS Bellevue 41st project is a collection of what will be 4 custom designed green homes.  At this point of construction there will be one home well on it’s way, one home preparing to have [...]

August Green Home Tour-Targeting LEED Platinum at 436dwell

This month we are excited to visit the latest project by one of Seattle premier green builder Dwell Development.  Exceeding Built Green 5-Star and targeting LEED Platinum certification, 436dwell is destined to be one of the most efficient speculative homes built to date in the city of Seattle.  Utilizing techniques such as superior air sealing and [...]

YS Development 41st Moves on to Framing

The foundation has been formed and poured for the first home at YS Development’s Bellevue 41st Street Development and they are now ready to construct the framing that will serve as the structural and interior bones of the home.  The structural engineering behind a homes framing is intricate and highly technical, but we would like [...]

YS Development 41st Lays the Foundation

Now that the excavation is complete it’s time to move onto the foundation walls that will support the first home at the YS Development Bellevue 41st project.   The opportunities for thoughtfulness and forward thinking start from the beginning of any building project and in keeping with this philosophy YS Development is using a special concrete mix [...]

Seattle Green Building-Air Sealing and Insulation at 436dwell

It could be said that outside of design and use of sustainable materials, this entire project revolves around the efforts undertaken to properly air seal and highly insulate this home.  As we have mentioned before Dwell Development is on a path to creating Net Zero homes by 2012.  An important part of attaining this goal [...]

July 2010 Green Home Tour-Shilshole Pointe Geothermal

  Saturday, July 24th.  This month we are very excited to have an opportunity to take a closer look at Seattle’s first geothermal community.  The Shilshole Pointe project by JRJ Development at it’s completion, will be a collection of seven Built Green 4-Star homes in the Sunset Hill neighborhood of Ballard.  Aside from the Geothermal [...]

YS Development 41st Breaks Ground

For our next green building informal case studies we will be following the construction by YS Development of what will be four new green homes in Bellevue at the base of Somerset.  This will be an exciting opportunity to talk about not only the steps involved in constructing one home, but how an entire community of homes comes together.  These [...]

Seattle Green Building-Radiant Heating at 436Dwell

An important aspect of green building is creating comfortable, healthy efficient interiors within a home.  One of the many unique features of these homes is the choices that have made to heat the interior spaces and meet the homes domestic hot water needs.  The single piece of technology Dwell Development has chosen for these purposes is a Navien Condensing 98% Water Heater.  The [...]

Shilshole Pointe-Seattle’s First Geothermal Community

  The Shilshole Pointe Geo Homes by JRJ Development will be the first installation of Geothermal Heating and Cooling for a community of homes in the City of Seattle.  The project consists of seven homes, approximately 3150 square feet with sweeping views of the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.  The various green features of each home will [...]

NovuStone-Energy Efficient Hand Crafted Stone

From right here in our own backyard comes NovuStone, very cool handcrafted stone surfaces made with approximately 75% recycled content sourced from within 35 miles of it’s manufacture facility in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood.  Of that 75%, 100% can be post-consumer recycled material. NovuStone is made from basically three ingredients: glass, a high performance ”portland-free” cement, and only a [...]