Welcome to Green Hammer!
Based in Portland, Oregon Green Hammer provides intelligent ecologically conscious design and build services for home additions, remodels and new construction. Our passion is to creatively unite the use of advanced technologies in energy efficiency with the intelligent use of natural, non-toxic, and low carbon footprint materials and design concepts.
Meet our in house team of certified home performance specialists, passive house consultants, designers, engineers, LEED AP's, FSC millwrights, highly skilled craftsman, project managers and dedicated staff.
America's First Passive House Office Building
Green Hammer is collaborating on the design of America’s first Passive House office building, the CAPACES Leadership Institute, a project of Oregon’s nonprofit farmworker union, PCUN. Features include a super-insulated shell with triple-pane windows, airtight construction, heat-recovery ventilation, night-flush cooling, a planted roof and shading system, and increased thermal mass (earthen walls). The 2600 square foot office will use 70% less energy than a comparable conventional office building.
Green Hammer is the winner of the 2008 Designing & Building with FSC Award
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has awarded Green Hammer, a green builder in Portland, Ore., its Designing & Building with FSC Award, an honor bestowed upon projects that the certification body feels further responsible forest management through use of FSC wood products.
LEED Gold home in Estacada featured in Oregonian's Home and Garden Northwest
This home features radiant floor heat, all natural insulated concrete forms (ICFs), passive solar design, structural insulated roof panels (SIPs), FSC certified lumber, a bioswale rainwater management system, and much more! Check out our portfolio.
Read the article in Home and Garden NW.
Green Hammer provides Home Performance Testing
Green Hammer provides state of the art home performance testing. Our Building Performance Institute (BPI) certified technicians utilize their deep construction knowledge and cutting edge technology to provide you with full energy performance diagnostics and definitive solutions to save you energy. Read more about BPI standards.
Our building philosophy incorporates these eight standards into every project: Waste Reduction, Ecological Materials, Energy Efficiency, Water Conservation, Healthy Air, Diversity of Design, Longevity, Supporting Local.
