# Josh Salinger - Birdsmouth Design-Build

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Podcast: [Marketing Passivhaus](https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketing-passivhaus-7111512)
Published: 2026-05-11T08:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Josh Salinger is the founder and CEO of Birdsmouth Design-Build, building custom new residential homes and ADUs, as well as some retrofits and remodels. They focus their new construction on passive buildings and have been doing that — and certifying them through Phius — since 2012 or so, operating out of Portland, Oregon, in the US Pacific Northwest. In this episode, we talk about best practices and how passive building techniques and passive house certification are, in a way, nothing more or less than a means of following best practices at every step along the way. We talk about the benefits of design-build, the five things everyone really wants from their building (and how to figure out which one to talk about first), and much more. Connect with Josh and Birdsmouth: Josh on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-salinger-763a396/ Josh on Fine Home Building => https://www.finehomebuilding.com/author/josh-salinger Josh on Green Building Advisor => https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/author/josh_salinger Birdsmouth on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/birdsmouth-designbuild/ Birdsmouth on Instagram => https://www.instagram.com/birdsmouthpdx/ Birdsmouth website => https://www.birdsmouthpdx.com/

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