Wood – Nature’s Stroke of Genius

A great video about wood from our friends in Denmark. I wish I could find (and promote) a similar video promoting the use of wood in North America. Odd that one doesn’t exist given how large of a role wood has played in the economies of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The team over at Go Wood is promoting this video on their website Go Wood: "The World's Most...
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Performance Building Institute

I just discovered the great research on Mark Sand‘s Performance Building Institute website. I highly recommend it as a resource for “applied BIM” and fully integrated construction.
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National Passive House Conference in Portland

The 5th National Conference starts on November 4th and includes an impressive list of speakers including Wolfgang...
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Passive House in the New York Times

Great National Coverage The full NYT article is here. An interactive site with construction details is here. For full information from the Passive House organization in Germany check...
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CutMyTimber : Digital Manufacturing: Paperless from FIM model to CNC mac…

Here is a great example or integrated design and manufacturing. The video is only 12 minutes long and is a great case study for real integrated project...
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