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A Alternative Construction & Green Building A ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCTION & GREEN BUILDING NEW: Tiny Living Workshop Track! Whether you are looking to build a tiny home on wheels, build a small house, or downsize your lifestyle, Featured our Tiny Living Workshop Track will help you find answers to achieve your goals. And swing by the Tiny Presenter: Home Alley, to tour a variety of Tiny Homes throughout the weekend and meet the owners/builders. Ask Amber Westermann questions and learn how people have retrofitted existing vehicles or built their tiny home from scratch. Owner/Designer, Amber Westerman Featured Tiny Living Workshops: Building Design • Design and Build a Tiny House (A17) • Extreme Downsizing (A23) Tiny Home Alley: Make sure to visit the Tiny Home Alley over the weekend. Tour a variety of Tiny Homes and meet the owners/builders. See page 15 for more info. • Retrofitted FedEx Van • Tiny Home on Wheels • Solar Shed by Next Energy Solution • Tiny Tiny House Model (at Silent Auction/Info Tent) Extreme Downsizing (A23) A1. A Deep Energy Retrofit Case Study: Step-by-step located in Dubuque, IA. I will give insight into the A12. Chainsaw Sculpting Basics (Demo): Introduction case study of a deep energy retrofit of a 1902 trials and tribulations of building a small passive to chainsaw sculpting. Learn how to choose a log, masonry two flat on Chicago’s west side. The goal: house on a budget. Shane Hoeper, NABCEP PV drying, safety tips, how to use a chainsaw to carve turning the building from an energy hog into a net Installation Professional, PHIUS Consultant, your first piece of art of out a log, and painting/ zero energy building. Marcus de la fleur, Principal, Owner, Hoeper Green Power. Saturday 3:30 p.m. finishing techniques. Scott Bargender, Owner and Dip. Hort. Kew, ASLA, PLA, de la fleur, LLC. Friday in the Brown Flag Tent l Operator, Living In Harmony Art Studio. Saturday l lll 3:30 p.m. in the Brown Flag Tent A7. Building an Earthship-Inspired Greenhouse: In 2:30 p.m. in the Green Building Demo Tent A2. Achieve Your Green Dream Home by this workshop we will discuss the basic concepts A13. Cob and Pizza Oven (Demo): See an earthen pizza Remodeling: Remodeling can be even greener behind our passive solar-geothermal greenhouse, oven fired up and learn how to cook from a wood- than building new! Learn tips and tech that help how we built it, the results we’ve seen so far, and fired oven. Learn pizza oven construction basics save material, reduce waste, protect undeveloped our plans for future improvement. Steve and Ali for cob, earth blocks, earth mortar, and earth land, and have more time/money for green Swan, Permaculture Design Certificate. Sunday plaster. Mark Morgan, MREA Instructor, Bear Paw materials and sustainability. Della Hansmann, 10:30 a.m. in the Black Flag Tent l Design and Construction. Saturday 12:00 p.m. Architect. Friday 2:30 p.m. in the Brown Flag Tent A8. Building with Earthbags: For a self-builder, and Sunday 2:00 p.m. at the Pizza Oven near the ll lll Earthbag Construction is a relatively easy way to Green Building Area A3. All-Electric Home—A Case Study: Learn about build walls, arches, and roofs. With barbed wire, A14. Considering Trees in Development Activities: technology, assumptions, data, plans, people, bale of bags, and a shovel, one can build a shelter. This session covers tree preservation, design money, the sun, and clouds as Gimme Shelter Don’t miss the following Building with Earthbags techniques for construction, and site planning. Construction shares a story of a home that Demo. Daniel Becker, Architect, AIA, NCARB, Topics include tree survival, benefits, costs, maximizes its energy efficiency in the modern LEED. Saturday 10:00 a.m. in the Brown Flag Tent site analysis, and green building rating systems. site-generated electrical market. John Brown l Andrew Lueck, President and Consulting Arborist and Mark Klein, Co-Owners, Gimme Shelter A9. Building with Earthbags (Demo): See Earthbag (LEED AP ND, BCMA, RCA), Planned Forest Construction. Friday 12:00 p.m. in the Brown Flag Construction in action and get hands-on Solutions, LLC. Saturday 5:30 p.m. in the Brown ll l Tent experience utilizing polypropylene tube bags, Flag Tent A4. Build a Basement Vermicomposting Bin (Demo): barbed wire, and a sand-clay bag filler to build A15. Cordwood and Cob (Demo): Cordwood and Participate to see for yourself how easy it is to a small wall. Don’t miss the prior Building with cob a match made in green building heaven. build vermicomposting bins for basement use. Earthbags workshop. Daniel Becker, Architect, Come on over to the green building site mix up Five people will get to leave with bins ready for AIA, NCARB, LEED. Saturday 11:00 a.m. in the some mud and learn about cob, cordwood and their homes. There is no extra charge! Don’t Green Building Demo Tent l the wonderful project that it is suited for. Mark miss the previous Basement Vermicomposting in A10. Building with Wattle and Daub: Learn the history, Morgan, MREA Instructor, Bear Paw Design Wisconsin workshop. Michael Sargent, Former uses, and techniques of this natural building and Construction. Friday 3:30 p.m. at the Green Sustainability Committee Chairman at Milwaukee practice. Don’t miss the following Building with Building Demo Tent Area Technical College, Vermicomposter. Sunday Wattle and Daub Demo. Daniel Becker, Architect, A16. Cordwood Book Signing: Richard and Becky l 10:30 a.m. in the Green Building Demo Tent AIA, NCARB, LEED. Saturday 2:30 p.m. in the Flatau built their mortgage-free cordwood home A5. Build Your Own Log Furniture from Treetops Brown Flag Tent l in 1979 in Merrill, Wisconsin. Since then, they (Demo): Learn how rustic log furniture is crafted A11. Building with Wattle and Daub (Demo): Weave have written books, conducted workshops, and and built in this hands-on-demonstration. wattle, mix daub, and apply to create your facilitated the last three Cordwood Conferences. Scott Bargender, Owner and Operator, Living own wattle and daub wall in this hands-on They will be signing books in the Brown Flag Tent In Harmony Art Studio. Friday 2:30 p.m. and demonstration. Don’t miss the prior Building after their Introduction to Cordwood workshop Saturday 10:00 a.m. in the Green Building Demo with Wattle and Daub workshop. Daniel Becker, and have available: llll Tent Architect, AIA, NCARB, LEED. Saturday 3:30 p.m. • Cordwood Workshop Video (2017) A6. Building an Affordable Passive House:Take a in the Green Building Demo Tent l • Cordwood Construction: Best Practices (2017) look into building IA’s most energy efficient home, • Cordwood Conference Papers 2015 35 • Cordwood and the Code: A Building Permit Guide miss the prior Earthen Plaster workshop. Daniel A25. High Performance Wall Systems: A builder’s • Cordwood Shed Plans Becker, Architect, AIA, NCARB, LEED. Sunday 3:00 overview of the wall systems they have constructed, • Cordwood House Plans Richard and Becky Flatau, p.m. in the Green Building Demo Tent l from upgraded standard framed construction, to Directors, Cordwood Construction Resources, LLC. A21. Efficient Domestic Hot Water: Domestic hot water Passive House qualified, to the addition of thermal l Sunday 11:30 p.m. in the Brown Flag Tent plumbing is easy: trunk, line, and branches. But mass in new and existing building. Dan Johnson, A17. Design and Build a Tiny House (1.5 hour): With the is it energy efficient? No. Learn about hot water Building Contractor, Driftless HomeWrights “tiny house” movement, Ramy (builder and licensed distribution systems that are water, material, and and David Romary, Business Partner, Driftless contractor in MN) will show you simple methods energy efficient. Marcus de la fleur, Principal, Dip. HomeWrights. Friday 10:30 a.m. in the Brown Flag lll to build your own house. We will include plumbing, Hort. Kew, ASLA, PLA, de la fleur LLC. Saturday Tent heating, and basic electric design. Ramy Selim, 12:00 p.m. in the Brown Flag Tent l A26. Introduction to Cordwood Construction: Cordwood Executive Director, Sunny Day Earth Solutions. A22. Energy Efficient Construction: Learn about what construction is a home building technique that l Sunday 9:30 a.m. in the Yellow Flag Tent creates comfortable, sustainable, and energy uses natural materials and encourages planet- A18. Documentary Screening: How to Build a Masonry efficient buildings for the northern climate zone. friendly choices. Outstanding visual examples of Heater: Learn about the overview of heating a home John Brown and Mark Klein, Co-Owners, Gimme best practice homes/cottages/cabins will reveal the with a masonry heater and how to build a masonry Shelter Construction. Saturday 11:00 a.m. in the latest successful builds. Richard and Becky will be heater from the ground up. The documentary will Brown Flag Tent ll available for a book signing following this workshop in the Brown Flag Tent and don’t miss the following discuss how a masonry heater works and how one A23. Extreme Downsizing: Nine years ago I sold my is built. The Documentary will also cover some of Introduction to Cordwood Construction (Demo). home and on a whim bought 40 wooded acres. Now Richard and Becky Flatau, Directors, Cordwood the available options from ovens to heated benches, broke, I had to take my personal challenge to live and even finishing options. Q&A and DVD signing Construction Resources, LLC. Sunday 10:30 a.m. in “one step above camping” seriously. See how I did the Brown Flag Tent ll to follow the documentary screening. Run time it, and share your story.
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