aggregated from: Seattle Condo Blog

Press release. At a time when many regional projects are at a standstill and unable to secure financing, this loan renewal helps Olive 8 earn its distinction as an urban and sustainable condominium project that has been able to move forward as plann...

topics: carbon-footprint, commercial-real-estate, developer, development, environment

aggregated from: Building Seattle Green

Olive 8 becomes first hotel/condominium building in Seattle to receive the nationally-recognized U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) certification...

topics: green-building, leed

aggregated from: Seattle Condo Blog

The following is a news release from Olive 8.SEATTLE (September 10, 2009) The stunning Olive 8 building (condo website), a 39-story hotel/ condominium building located in downtown Seattle, has officially received LEED Silver by the U.S. Green B...

topics: carbon-footprint, condo, development, downtown, environment

aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

Vancouver, BC has been a model of modern city planning, envied and emulated from the Middle East to South Lake Union. Now, one of the Canadian city's most prominent architects will be representing the USA in urban design at Expo 2010 in Shanghai by d...

topics: architecture, budget, green-building, high-tech, sustainability

aggregated from: Building Seattle Green

Do you have an innovative green project or building system that you'd like to share? This year's 10x10x10 Green Building Slam is just around the corner, and the Seattle Chapter of the Northwest Ecobuilding Guild is now looking for project submissions...

aggregated from: Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices fo

Report from Cascadia Regional Green Building Council gives examples of buildings with higher rents, faster absorption, higher occupancy rates and lower operating costs....

aggregated from: Building Seattle Green

Green building may be booming, especially in the Northwest, but the claims made for high-performance buildings have been slow to gain traction in the financial community. Appraisers, lenders, investors and brokers have found it difficult to confirm t...

aggregated from: Building Seattle Green

Construction has just begun on a large sustainable student housing project designed by CollinsWoerman on Bastyr University's Kenmore, Washington campus. Eleven cottages housing 132 students on the University's Kenmore Campus will incorporates a varie...

topics: green-building, housing, leed

aggregated from: Redfin Sweet Digs Seattle

Redfin fan, Sterling Hamilton of Hamilton Investments, has written another report for Built Green looking at the effect of green real estate practices. The last report was on how Built Green Homes on the Rise and Hold Value Better. This April 22nd, ...

topics: green-building, leed, real-estate

aggregated from: Slog

Seattle 's chapter of the American Institute of Architects has half the answer to its question: What Makes It Green? About 200 people, wearing angular eyewear and tidy seersucker tops, packed into FareStart Restaurant downtown this evening to cheer...

topics: architecture, building-green, design, downtown, energy-efficient