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Is Your Passive House Keeping Out the Smoke?
September 09, 2017 - Jarad Miles
As the Eagle Creek Fire continues to spread and puff out hazardous smoke, we are urged to seek refuge indoors. But what if you live in a Passive House? Is your heat recovery ventilator system keeping out the smoke?
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14 Tips for Understanding Your High-Performance Home
August 26, 2017 - Jarad Miles
“One of the biggest challenges," says Architect Jonathan Lundstrom, "is that clients have to consider how their high-performance home works and how their behaviors affect their home. Sometimes this means replacing old habits..."
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Going Street Commons: Open House
August 12, 2017 - Jarad Miles
On August 1st, 40 interested homeowners and community members gathered to hear more about our future Net Zero community, Going Street Commons. If you missed it, this blog highlights our Founder Josh Salinger's presentation that evening...
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Q&A with ADU client Peg Malloy
June 29, 2017 - Jarad Miles
On this week's blog, I visit with client Peg Malloy about her upcoming plans to build an ADU, why she chose our team to build it, and what it has been like to work with Birdsmouth on past projects.
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Breathing new light into dark spaces
June 19, 2017 - Jarad Miles
In this week's blog we highlight our recent efforts to help a Northeast Portland couple transform their underutilized garage into a comfortable and appealing space for neighbors and friends.
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Going Street Commons: Spring 2017 Updates
May 16, 2017 - Jarad Miles
Our team recently met with the City of Portland’s Bureau of Development Services to advance the Going Street Commons (GSC) project. In this week's blog, we discuss the good (and not-so-good) takeaways from the meeting and what's coming next.
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From SE Portland garage to Net Zero ADU
May 03, 2017 - Jarad Miles
This week we take a closer look at the conversion of a SE Portland garage into a Net Zero Ready ADU. We dig into the details and talk with our Designer Ben Valentin about the strategies and challenges of achieving a comfortable, low-energy ADU.
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Architect Couple's Dream Home Selected for 'Your Healthy Home' Case Study
April 19, 2017 - Jarad Miles
'Your Healthy Home' is the first in a new three-part series of DIY community workshops demonstrating how Portland residents can create homes that are healthier, more resilient and prepared for emergencies...
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Creating a Zero Energy Community: Going Street Commons
March 30, 2017 - Jarad Miles
Going Street Commons is a future development of 12 certified Passive House homes on 1.3 acres in NE Portland’s Cully neighborhood. Read on to learn more about this ambitious project.
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Birdsmouth spotlight: A conversation with Architect Jonathan Lundstrom
March 25, 2017 - Jarad Miles
In my recent conversation with Jonathan, we discuss his growing up in Wisconsin and becoming an architect, his move to Portland in 2015, Passive House and the current project he's most excited about.
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Birdsmouth introduces Glo Windows to Portland market
February 27, 2017 - Jarad Miles
We are always looking for better ways to tighten our building envelopes. Sometimes we find them, and other times they find us. In this post, we discuss our new partnership with Missoula, Montana-based window designer and installer, Glo European Windows.
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Birdsmouth home project makes cover of Portrait of Portland Magazine!
February 21, 2017 - Jarad Miles
How do you make a hundred-year-old home energy efficient? That was the big question and our recent mission to revamp Sue Wells’ and Dr. Nancy Grant’s 1925 Dutch Colonial home in Portland’s Grant Park district.
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Building to protect our most vulnerable
February 06, 2017 - Jarad Miles
"The POD Initiative is just the first step in building a coalition among the design community to continue to address homeless in Portland. This initiative is an entry point for designers to get involved with a clear deliverable, but homelessness is a comp
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Birdsmouth named 2016 Green Home Builder of the Year by Earth Advantage
January 19, 2017 - Jarad Miles
Earth Advantage has been certifying high performance homes for more than a decade now. To date they've certified over 15,100 homes and nearly 7,000 multifamily units. Birdsmouth is proud to partner with EA toward a more sustainable future.
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