Hands-on Builder Training Workshops
June 2009 Update! The Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Housing Authority and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Community College will collaborate on a demonstration "Green Affordable Housing Builder Training" in Fall 2009. Check back here often as plans firm up!
January 2009: The St Croix and Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Housing Authorities approve concept plans for a model "Green Multi-Generational Home" developed by Design Coalition Architects of Madison Wisconsin in partnership with the Green Communites and Green Affordable Housing in Indian Country Initiatiave and the US Department of Agriculture. <click here for a preview>
June 2008: The St. Croix Tribal Construction Office hosted this year's Green Affordable Housing Builder Training Workshop in Hertel, Wisconsin, May 19-23, 2008.
Click here for photo overview of the training. >X<
Contact project coordinator Sue Thering for information:
608-263-6506 or sathering@wisc.edu
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For Other Designers, Contractors, and Builders:
In Response to Requests for Technical Information: Invitation to participate as "Visiting Scholar" and collaborate in "Northern Light Straw-Clay" (a varient of what German Builders call "Leichtlehmbau"):
http://affordablegreenhousing.org/admin/node/20
Contact project coordinator Sue Thering for information:
608-263-6506 or sathering@wisc.edu
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For Other Designers, Contractors, and Builders:
In Response to Requests for Technical Information: Invitation to participate as "Visiting Scholar" and collaborate in "Northern Light Straw-Clay" (a varient of what German Builders call "Leichtlehmbau"):
http://affordablegreenhousing.org/admin/node/20
608-263-6506 or sathering@wisc.edu