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Apogee is a new website resource for high performance home builders with a specific focus on ultra-high performance building products and their suppliers.

Join us at HUB in SE PDX on Thurs., Oct. 18 for cold beverages and valuable information on how code changes will affect the way you’ll be building homes in the very near future. Attendees save $50 OFF SHP in PDX. Early Bird ends 10/19 + SHP Course starts 11/2

The 7th annual 2018 Earth Advantage Green Builder of the Year Awards were presented to a packed audience at McMenamins on September 27. Builders, developers, and architects submitted applications in 8 categories that recognize the very best sustainable & energy efficient construction practices by builders and project teams working with Earth Advantage to certify their projects.

When it comes to energy efficiency in home appliances, the clothes dryer is the elephant in the laundry room. On average, residential clothes dryers use about 800 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year. By comparison, a standard clothes washer and a standard refrigerator each use about 600 kWh per year.

For seven years the Earth Advantage Green Builder of the Year Awards has been celebrating the extraordinary efforts of builders and developers who certify to our standards. All of the builders who work with Earth Advantage are interested in building quality, low-energy, high-performing single family and multifamily residences.

Home Efficiency Forum brings together Northwest building experts of all kinds to talk shop and advance energy-efficient building practices in residential new construction. This two-day event will feature trainings, networking opportunities and the chance to share ideas with your peers around this year’s theme: Building for the Future.

With energy costs showing no signs of abating, architects and builders everywhere are factoring energy efficiency into every aspect of their projects. Indeed, minimizing energy use is a key component of building standards gaining in popularity among policy makers, home building professionals, and homeowners alike.

Every year we’re fortunate to have a rotating group of outside judges, representing a cross-section of sustainable housing industry experts, who review the applications and select the winners. This year, the expert judges are Heidi McCullough, Emily Mikhaiel and Dan Wildenhaus.

Given that so many of the standard upgrades Earth Advantage builders have incorporated into their homes have now become code, it becomes really apparent that the lowest hanging fruit of energy efficiency is tied to the efficiency of the water heater.

Now, eleven years after completing our first build in Portland, Ethan Beck Homes is undergoing an exciting period of growth.