Holidays bring first PGB Demonstration Home

The holidays worked out nicely for Project Green Build, landing us our first demonstration home project since posting this article in the Columbian’s “Readers View” section in November. To read the article, scroll and find the heading “Green Homes are better”.

We have been busy organizing what will be one of the toughest challenges our organization has faced in its first two years since incorporation, so our apologies for not updating the blog sooner.

John Fazzolari, owner of Fazzolari Custom Homes in Vancouver, and his Bungalow-style community development in suburban Vancouver at Messner Estates, will be the owner and location respectively for what we have titled the “Living Home”.

The project, the Columbian reports, may be the first single family home attempting to reach the Cascadia Region Green Building Council Living Building Challenge. The Living Building Challenge is being heralded as the toughest green standard in North America.

Although the partnership did not result from the Columbia posting (it was actually at a Clark County Building Industry Association meeting), the results are the same, and the project has the potential to put Vancouver, Washington, on the map.

January 2nd, 2008