Tag: building construction
“Use materials that have been extracted, harvested, recovered or manufactured within 500 miles of the site.” My first response is . . .what is so special about 500 miles? Why not 400 miles, or 450 miles, or maybe three hundred, eighty-nine…
Why I don’t do LEED. I put a good bit of careful consideration into whether to post a series of blogs posting taking issue with ‘LEED’ and Sustainability. Such has become an over reaching orthodoxy that one must all but…
Building on the north slope in the mountains This was initially written as a follow-up response from a question asked after a marketing presentation with respect to the work executed by Studio 285 Architecture. The question was, “what about building…