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Green Hammer is collaborating on the design of America’s first Passive House office building, the CAPACES Leadership Institute, a project of Oregon’s nonprofit farmworker union, PCUN. Features include a super-insulated shell with triple-pane windows, airtight construction, heat-recovery ventilation, night-flush cooling, a planted roof and shading system, and increased thermal mass (earthen walls). The 2600 square foot office will use 70% less energy than a comparable conventional office building.

Architectural designer and energy consultant Dylan Lamar has authored his first book, Urbanize & Insulate: The Development of a Fossil-Fuel Exit Strategy. The book provides a succinct and well-researched account of how these two basic agendas can radically reduce carbon-emissions in the built environment. Read more