Events
Upcoming Events
Calendar/Events
Please be kind and respectful!
Every organization and everyone can submit to Rate It Green's green building calendar! Simply click register, verify your email address, and create a username and password. You can then decide if you'd like to engage more fully as a community member, but you'll be able to post events.
Please make sure to be respectful of the organizations and companies, and other Rate It Green members that make up our community. We welcome praise and advice and even criticism but all posted content and ratings should be constructive in nature. For guidance on what constitutes suitable content on the Rate It Green site, please refer to the User Agreement and Site Rules.
The opinions, comments, ratings and all content posted by member on the Rate It Green website are the comments and opinions of the individual members who posts them only and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies or policies of Rate It Green. Rate It Green Team Members will monitor posted content for unsuitable content, but we also ask for the participation of community members in helping to keep the site a comfortable and open public forum of ideas. Please email all questions and concerns to admin@rateitgreen.com
Virtual Citizen Participation Meeting - World's First Living Building & Passive Multi-family, GreenHome Institute, May 7, 2020 from 4:30-6pm EDT
Event Description
This webinar is a specific Ann Arbor Michigan Citizen Participation meeting aimed to introduce the project to the public and solicit commentary for the City of Ann Arbor’s planning process. However, anyone outside of Ann Arbor can come and learn!
Doug Selby, Co-Founder of Meadowlark Design+Build, has announced plans to re-build a rental home at 530 N. Division Street in Ann Arbor that is planned to be certified by two world’s most rigorous environmental building program.
This 4-unit rental home in the Kerrytown neighborhood of Ann Arbor is a remodel and addition to an existing home.
The Living Building Challenge (LBC) is a rigorous program through the International Living Futures Institute (https://living-future.org/). This program will require that the building produce more energy than it uses, responsibly manages water, achieve zero net waste in the building process, and uses only products that are nontoxic throughout the manufacturing and supply chain. The site must add to native biodiversity, even on a small city lot. This program makes buildings that are not just “less bad,” but truly regenerative and restorative.
This building will also become Michigan’s first multi-family Passive Building and first retrofit project certified by the Passive House Institute of the US (PHIUS, https://www.phius.org/). Built to the most rigorous standards, a certified Passive Building generally uses 80%-90% less energy than a code-built project for heating and cooling.
Continuing Education Units (CEUS) 1 hour in
Lessons Learned
Building science expert and co-founder of Meadowlark Builders, Doug attended Michigan State University and graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry. After working as a pharmaceutical chemist and cancer researcher for 7 years, Doug left the profession in 1998 to become a carpenter, learning all trades while remodeling rental houses.
During the early and mid-90’s, Kirk Brandon and Doug also founded and ran a woodworking company in Ann Arbor, where they honed their appreciation for fine craftsmanship. Doug and Kirk co-founded Meadowlark Builders in 2004, drawing on their previous experience in both business and the trades.
Doug spent several years studying primitive living skills, and enjoys cooking, growing food and trying to keep up with his kids.
Reply/Leave a Comment (You must be logged in to leave a comment)
Not a Member Yet? Register and Join the Community | Log in