YS Development 41st Lays the Foundation

Now that the excavation is complete it’s time to move onto the foundation walls that will support the first home at the YS Development Bellevue 41st project.   The opportunities for thoughtfulness and forward thinking start from the beginning of any building project and in keeping with this philosophy YS Development is using a special concrete mix [...]

Seattle Green Building-Air Sealing and Insulation at 436dwell

It could be said that outside of design and use of sustainable materials, this entire project revolves around the efforts undertaken to properly air seal and highly insulate this home.  As we have mentioned before Dwell Development is on a path to creating Net Zero homes by 2012.  An important part of attaining this goal [...]

July 2010 Green Home Tour-Shilshole Pointe Geothermal

  Saturday, July 24th.  This month we are very excited to have an opportunity to take a closer look at Seattle’s first geothermal community.  The Shilshole Pointe project by JRJ Development at it’s completion, will be a collection of seven Built Green 4-Star homes in the Sunset Hill neighborhood of Ballard.  Aside from the Geothermal [...]

YS Development 41st Breaks Ground

For our next green building informal case studies we will be following the construction by YS Development of what will be four new green homes in Bellevue at the base of Somerset.  This will be an exciting opportunity to talk about not only the steps involved in constructing one home, but how an entire community of homes comes together.  These [...]

Seattle Green Building-Radiant Heating at 436Dwell

An important aspect of green building is creating comfortable, healthy efficient interiors within a home.  One of the many unique features of these homes is the choices that have made to heat the interior spaces and meet the homes domestic hot water needs.  The single piece of technology Dwell Development has chosen for these purposes is a Navien Condensing 98% Water Heater.  The [...]