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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.

High performance homes require better HVAC design strategies than code level homes.

The Passive House Institute US has a new blower door measurement metric, should it be adopted by the industry for all homes?

Moving from a site to source definition for zero energy homes.

Peter Brown, Director of Certifications at Earth Advantage recently interview Gary Phillips of Gary's VacuFlo, the leading installer of central vacuum systems in the greater Portland metropolitan area.

Airtight drywall is an all encompassing term that includes air sealing according to the Thermal Bypass Checklist, the Thermal Enclosure Checklist, and Energy Trust of Oregon's air sealing checklist. The theoretical limit for the airtight drywall approach to air sealing is about 1.5 ACH50.

The results are and in and the City of Bend ranked 19th out of 49 communities participating in the Georgetown University Energy Prize.

A regular series of timely insights from Earth Advantage