SITEWORKS CREATES OLUKAI'S TRADE SHOW BOOTH AT OUTDOOR RETAILER

Siteworks worked with Greenspace to create OluKai's trade show booth at this years Outdoor Retailer Winter Market event in Salt Lake City. 

JP doing some R&D in Maui

The booth became a secret gateway to real Hawaii, creating OluKai's new hale (Hawaiian home), and  referencing hawaii's rich Paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy) and Upcountry history.

HOPWORKS RECEIVES INCENTIVE CHECK FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY UPGRADES

Christian Ettinger of Hopworks Urban Brewery receives an incentive check from Energy Trust of Oregon for energy efficiency upgrades to their brewery operations. Siteworks replaced an out of date chiller, installed a heat recovery system, and added new fermentation tanks which will allow Hopworks to triple their brewing capacity. We are proud to be a part of the Hopworks story.

ISITE SHOWCASED IN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS OREGON

Gallery: A look inside ISITE's sustainable space

By Christina Williams

Sustainable Business Oregon

Web design firm ISITE Design christened its new Northwest Portland office last week with a party, showing off a spiffy new space replete with bike racks, reclaimed wood details and a gas fireplace.

The build out of the office, completed by Portland-based design-build firm Siteworks, also features some futuristic sustainability features worthy of note.

ISITE, which has just over 40 employees in Portland, purchased the 18,000-square-foot building near Northwest Pettygrove and 20th and overhauled it with financing help from the Portland Development Commission.

Jean-Pierre Veillet, the principal of Siteworks and the brains behind EcoFlats, a net-zero apartment complex that opened last year, took photographer Cathy Cheney and I on a tour of ISITE's new digs. 

Reclaimed shipping containers house an airy conference room. ISITE Creative Director Patrick Craig said the rusty finish was inspired by the patina of a fire-damaged shipping container.

ISITE Design worked with Siteworks to create an office space that is homey and conducive to collaboration. Reclaimed wood from Viridian Wood Products provides accents throughout the space.

Daylight and ventilation is a key attribute of the office. Cubicle walls are covered with natural felt — "That's what goes under saddles," says Siteworks' Jean-Pierre Viellet — a sound absorber. The soft floor was installed by the gym that used the space before ISITE moved in.

The fireplace is especially attractive on a chilly January afternoon.

Interior offices feature their own skylights to let in more natural light. The custom-built LED light fixtures above each desk are wired so that the light level can be adjusted with the click of a mouse. 

A bright hallway leads from ISITE's offices to a cafe space and additional office space on the south side of the building.

Siteworks' Jean-Pierre Viellet shows off the doors from the shipping container which lead into the Brainstorm Room where 14-foot ceilings and a magnetized white board facilitate big ideas.

http://www.sustainablebusinessoregon.com/articles/2012/01/gallery-a-look-inside-isites.html

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECT MAGAZINE FEATURES ECOFLATS

wheelhouse

a green mixed-use building serves cycle commuters.

by: bruce D. snyder

Located on a major bicycle thoroughfare in Portland, Ore., the ecoFLATS project taps a rental market that was hiding in plain sight. “Three thousand bikes are going by every day,” says Jean-Pierre Veillet, design principal at Portland-based Siteworks Design | Build, who aimed the project at bicycle commuters—the “20-to-40 demographic of hip Portland people dedicated to a live-simple lifestyle.” Working backward from market-rate rents, Veillet’s firm produced what he refers to as “a resourceful building, a highly efficient infill building that’s transportation oriented.”
A cycling-oriented brew pub occupies one of two commercial spaces at street level, where the residents’ entry vestibule provides secure bike storage. The building’s 18 units open onto a three-story loggia, promoting natural ventilation and daylighting. Passive cooling freed budget dollars for roof-mounted photovoltaic and solar thermal panels, which, along with LED lighting, reflective roofing, and an efficient hydronic heating system, put net-zero energy use within reach. (A monitor in the vestibule delivers a real-time readout of how much energy each unit is consuming.) And while there’s no off-street parking, Veillet points out that there are “two Zipcars out front for weekends or going to the mountains.”
Good green vibes notwithstanding, securing bank financing also required solid income projections, Veillet explains. “If we wanted to do a solar array, we had to save elsewhere. It had to make business sense; that’s how we sold it to the bank.” Selling the concept to the public, however, was easy. “Pro cyclists, bike builders, bike commuters—they just dove on it,” Veillet notes. And with Nike and other outdoors-oriented employers located nearby, “the people are here,” he says. “We could do this again and again and again.”
http://www.residentialarchitect.com/multifamily/wheelhouse.aspx