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Dwell Development & Brute Force Collaborative Present at Passive House Northwest Pt 2

    Back at the end of January, our own Anthony Maschmedt joined up with Mike Eliason and Aaron Yankauskas of Brute Force Collaborative to give a talk at a Passive House Northwest panel discussion.  As mentioned in our previous post about this event, here are more details from their presentation about Dwell Development’s Passivhaus. [...]

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We’ve got a 6-pack!

left to right: Aaron Yankauskas of Brute Force Collaborative, Tadashi Shiga of Evergreen Certified and Dwell Development’s Anthony Maschmedt (not pictured: Mike Eliason of Brute Force Collaborative) A few weeks ago we presented at the Passive House Northwest Conference with details on our Passivhaus at Columbia Station.  We were asked to provide 10 slides and [...]

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Seattle Channel City Inside/Out visit Dwell Development’s Columbia Station

Brian Callanan stopped by a few weeks ago to interview Anthony Maschmedt for an episode of City Inside/Out which he hosts for the Seattle Channel.  The show covered urban density, zoning laws and debate on the issues facing a growing city.  Featured on the show’s panel were Smart Growth Seattle’s Roger Valdez; Mike Podowski, land [...]

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Smart Growth Seattle visits Dwell Development

A few weeks ago, Roger Valdez of Smart Growth Seattle stopped by to visit Dwell Development’s Columbia Station micro-community.                         Smart Growth Seattle is an advocacy group “promoting fresh land use codes to manage neighborhood growth.”  Roger came by to get a first hand look at our micro-community as an [...]

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3220 S Edmunds Waterproof and Windows!

The exterior waterproof air barrier has been applied…windows are in… (taken March 18, 2023)

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Passivhaus mid-March 2013

The siding is installed on our passivhaus and we are insulating this week!

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Abodian teams up with Dwell Development for KING5′s New Day Northwest!

Today we paid a visit to Margaret Larson at New Day Northwest with Jeff Bowlby of Abodian - “built-to-order”/”built-to-last” cabinets.  These stunning cabinets are made right here in the Rainier Valley with local sustainable materials.  Dwell Development chooses Abodian for a variety of reasons.  The cabinets are  made using sustainable materials, and are, as mentioned, [...]

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3220 S Edmunds Framing Progress!

Check out these pictures and a short video of framing in progress on the 3220 S Edmunds 5-Star Built Green homes in Columbia City!       See this short video clip on site from Feb 27, 2013!      

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0.58 ACH50 Means we have met Passive House standards!

A few weeks ago we ran our first blower door test at our Passive House in Columbia City, with results indicating we had to look for leaks and holes to patch and come back and redo the test.  Our first test, resulting in a reading of 1.62 ACH50, meant that there were 1.62 air changes per [...]

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Dwell Development & Brute Force Collaborative Present at Passive House Northwest

Dwell Development’s Anthony Maschmedt joined Aaron Yankauskas and Michael Eliason of Brute Force Collaborative in a presentation a few weeks ago at Passive House Northwest.  Here they talked about the Passive House, built on spec, as a part of the 15 unit micro-community at Columbia Station, in Columbia City. For those of you unfamiliar with [...]

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