ECOTOPE NEWS
2014 Vision Awards
Nick, Poppy & Jon went incognito to the Seattle 2030 District second annual awards event, the 2014 Vision Awards, where members were honored for their achievements over the last year, and current and future Seattle 2030 District programs were highlighted. This...
Taking the Message to Alaska
The Ecotope design team has been working on several projects in Alaska and getting quite a bit of local interest as a result. In Sitka Ecotope is working on renovations to the City library and the convention center, the two most significant public buildings in town....
Rain or Shine
The always intrepid Ecotope team battled rain and an exceedingly wet trail to do some bonding on our semi-annual hike, this time to Elizabeth Lake near Granite Falls.
Former Ecotope Employee Wins MacArthur Grant
Tami Bond is one of 21 recipients of the 2014 MacArthur Genius Grants. Tami started as a bookkeeper at Ecotope while an undergraduate at the University of Washington. Later under the tutelage of Larry Palmiter she researched indoor air quality and air leakage in...
Poppy Storm Presents Paper at International Conference in Berlin
Poppy Storm traveled to Berlin for the IEPEC conference to present her paper in partnership with the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) on the Northwest Ductless Heat Pump Pilot Project. Ductless heat pumps (DHPs) have the potential to save several hundred...
Heller and Larson Present Groundbreaking Research at the ACEEE Summer Study
Two of our researchers presented their findings at the August ACEEE summer study at Asilomar: In Design for Off: Key Mechanical Engineering Design Features for Significant Energy Savings Jon Heller gave away all of Ecotope’s secrets for how to engineer highly energy...
Data Not Dogma
The Data Not Dogma (DND) conference was July 29-30 in Goldendale, WA. Started by Bruce Manclark in 2008 as an alternative to the big conferences and their focus on home performance marketing talks, DND’s goal is to share real-world data about houses and buildings. ...
Seattle Hosts ASHRAE Annual Conference June 27-July 1
Several Ecotope staff members participated in the conference held in Seattle. We took advantage of the local conference and some unusually sunny weather in June and hosted a BBQ for locals and out of towners. On a warm night Ecotope friends and family ate salmon,...