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May 22, 2005
Eco Design Workshop
Today we had a day long Eco Design Workshop with our architects (Mary and Laura of Kraus Fitch Architects and Marc Rosenbaum of Energy Smiths.
It was an extremely informative workshop, and we made a lot of very important decisions regarding the project. Marc was a fantastic presenter who is obviously very knowledgable on the topics, and he was able to lay out the issues regarding decisions in building materials, mechanical systems, and design so that we could make intelligent decisions as to where we wanted to go.
These decisions were primarily guidelines to the architects to give them ideas about what we wanted, were it to be feasible. Of course much of it comes down to money, since many of the choices regarding 'green' building also end up costing more money, but there are huge wins in the end, both financially and ecologically.
Posted by dbs in Status reports at May 22, 2005 8:14 PM