May Committee Meeting Minutes and Next Meeting

The minutes for last month's meeting are here.

One thing not mentioned at the last meeting is that Michael Green and Eric Karsh were keynote speakers at the PSU Symposium.   It was the same talk featuring their mass timber projects presented at the SEFW last fall, but there is a recording for those who want to watch: http://vimeo.com/92475801

Our next meeting will be at Coughlin Porter Lundeen again.  We will follow up on the energy code and talk about other potential projects.  Participate in the Doodle poll to select a meeting date.

April committee meeting minutes and preview for May

See here for April's meeting minutes. Join us May 28, 2014 back at CPL. Adam will be presenting on the PSU Sustainable Structures Symposium, including his own presentation from the conference. Please contact Adam or Kyle for call-in information if you can't attend in person.

Sean passed along an article on some innovative sustainable buildings that I’ll also post:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3029434/the-top-10-most-innovative-sustainable-buildings-of-2014

If you have something you’d like to share with the committee, let me know.

April Committee Meeting and March Minutes

The minutes for last month's meeting are here. Thanks to Rachel for enlightening the committee on the 2012 state and city energy code provisions.

Our upcoming meeting is this Wednesday at Coughlin Porter Lundeen at noon. Note that they have moved to the 9th floor of the Norton Building at Second and Columbia.   We will continue discussion of the provisions in the 2012 energy code that will impact structural design. We will also recap the CarbonCure concrete presentation.

January and February Meeting Minutes

Below are minutes from the committee's meetings in the past two months.
January 2014 minutes
February 2014 minutes

December Committee Meeting and Past Minutes

Our upcoming meeting is Wednesday December 4th at KPFF.  Since our usual meeting time of the 4^th Wednesday of the month conflicts with Thanksgiving this month, we are moving to December 4^th.  This will be our last meeting this year.  We are looking for someone willing to host meetings at a Seattle office in the new year.

Our December meeting will continue our series on the sustainability of cross-laminated timber and wood design.  We will feature Myer Harrell and Kirsten Clemens from Weber Thompson to discuss the architectural considerations for tall CLT buildings.    

Image courtesy of Weber Thompson

We will also recap the Tall Wood presentation by Michael Green.

We have the availability for web and audio conference at the meeting if requested.  

Last month’s meeting minutes here.

April 24 Committee Meeting

Our next committee meeting will be next Wednesday, April 24th at noon at CPL.  The main topic with be Life Cycle Assessment FAQs.  An agenda will be posted at on this blog by Wednesday. Meeting minutes from March are here. Let me know if you would like to join by audio/video conference.