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The long-awaited day has come: Built Green members can now complete the bulk of their project and membership items online. No need to scan and email forms anymore! This functionality will free up member and staff time. Builders will be able to access their project information via their convenient online accounts.

Nothing increases the appearance of size in your home like a mirror. Big or small, mirrors effectively double light and volume, increasing brightness and giving us a pleasant sense of openness.

MBAKS Executive Director Kat Sims says, “In our continued efforts to advocate for the builders and residents of our great region, Marco’s experience with city government will be an asset to our association members as well as the cities and homeowners for which they build market-rate, middle-income and affordable-housing options.”

In this rapidly growing neighborhood, design-build firm HyBrid Architecture & Assembly constructed rowhouses that help densify the area more than a standard rowhouse project. Rather than build a cookie-cutter set of rowhouses, HyBrid integrated an ADU space into the bottom level of each unit, adding a layer of “invisible density.”

Every year, Seattle Business magazine puts out their list of the 100 best companies to work for, based on anonymous employee survey responses. Full disclosure, we were a little perturbed Seattle Business magazine didn’t expand the list to 3,000 and put all our awesome members on the list, but there’s always next year.

According to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, May was the first time King County had more than a month's supply of homes for sale since September 2017.

Building with energy efficient equipment and systems adds value and makes a home comfortable for years to come. But it's a good investment now, as well.

BIAW and other partners, including MBAKS and several of its members, have received a 2018 City Champion Award in the Partners for Progress category from the Association of Washington Cities (AWC) for finding common ground to help pass Hirst and Foster “fix” legislation and for efforts to ensure city challenges were expressed throughout the process.