Member Spotlight: Aaron Sauerhoff

Aaron Sauerhoff joined the NWEBG in 2018 and began contributing to the Education Committee within the year. He’s served on the Board of Directors since 2022, bringing his vision for proliferating biocompatible building principles into the fore of design and construction cultures into the leadership of the area’s largest concentration of proponents.

Aaron relocated to the Northwest from the Northeast ten years ago (as of 2025) after stumbling into a NYC march, which led him to spend a day gazing at the downtown infrastructure with fresh eyes, realizing how we are shaped by our buildings. This spiritual experience forced him to reconcile with the quality of the structures and systems he observed and spurred him to pivot his life’s direction toward the improvement of our collective building practices. From forming the natural building program at Evergreen, working on crews in the South Sound and positioning himself on Olympia’s Planning Commission, to eventually developing a design firm and network to form modular, collaborative cohorts ad libitum for specific projects: he’s centered building science in his sphere of influence and care indefinitely.

His gaze now sets on scaling healthy building technologies while working to create access to them across income strata. He and his growing crew of collaborators combine their efforts to bring forth systems such as biogenic pre-fab, carbon-sequestering material streams, and places that will continue to thrive long after we’ve become memories.