by Alen Blake | Mar 14, 2015 | Publications
From the outside the Bellevue Youth Theater resembles a Tolkien hobbit hole. But the green mound spiked with light trumpets hides a state-of-the-art, super energy efficient theater and a program which is welcoming to all youth and senior citizens. The new...
by Alen Blake | Mar 12, 2015 | Publications
With the sound of drums and the aroma of Native American food the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House had it’s grand opening on the University of Washington Campus today. The building is intended as a gathering place for Native American students and venue for...
by Alen Blake | Feb 4, 2015 | Publications
The 2015 ACI Northwest Regional Home Performance Conference is was held in Seattle this year, February 2nd and 3rd. Several of our staff members led sessions during the 2 day conference. On Monday, David Baylon & Shawn Oram talked about Multi-Family Buildings:...
by Alen Blake | Jan 28, 2015 | Publications
Several members of the Ecotope team attended the ASHRAE winter conference in Chicago at the end of January. Bob Davis and Ben Larson prepared and delivered an oral presentation as part of a Load-Based testing technical seminar. The presentation focused on both field...
by Alen Blake | Nov 14, 2014 | Publications
If there is one thing that can be said about people who work at Ecotope, we love pies: baking them, eating them and competing over them. The Ecopie pie baking contest was born as a way to merge these interests. As engineers and researchers we have very specific...
by Alen Blake | Nov 1, 2014 | Publications
The King County Housing Authority’s (KCHA) new office was a complete interior renovation of a former big box retail store into a typical modern office. The project goals were to create an affordable energy efficient “Net Zero Energy Ready” building. The design team...