Hi Folks,
I am swamped with work right now so i cant research any questions for yall.... so why dont you help me out.
check out... www.ci.san-jose.ca.us/esd and tell me 2 things that you learn.
do the same for www.buildinggreen.com/features/mr/
Thank you! I look forward to learning all about it.
Also. April 14th, (monday) mark it in your calendars... we will be going to the Earth Pledge Center for a Green Roof Workshop. We will meet at the Girls Club at 3:30 sharp and go from here.
Next week we will be making the switch. Jason and Cassie will be working with John Waters at the Builder's office. he is a great guy so it should be fun. I need to confirm the days though... it may have to be Thursdays and Fridays (if you cant do one of the days, then you will just have to stick to one day at week for the internship). I will confirm by the end of the week. Assi, you will be in DC next Thursday so it does not count for you, then the next two weeks are Spring Break (so no one works). This means Assi will be starting at the Architects on May 1st.
Hope this is clear for everyone.
Call or writem me if you have questions.
Take Care
Jennifer
1. What are 7 ways solar power can benefit people in developing nations?
In Brazil for example Self has bettered health care for Brazilians by electrifying the Reserve's new health clinic. Solar lights allow emergency surgical operations to be performed at night.The solar-powered clinic now has a Sunfrost refrigerator that preserves delicate vaccines and snake bite antidotes. In Africa SELF built solar home systems in 300 rural homes. With solar lights as an alternative to open fires, health was improved. With a ver small need for firewood, deforestation and desertification will be reduced, improving water availability and top-soil fertility.
2.Name 5 countries where SELF has projects?
SELF has projects in Tanzania,Africa, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands,Brazil, Nigeria, United States.
3. When was SELF founded?
SELF was founded in 1990 to promote, develop, and facilitate solar rural electrification and energy SELF-sufficiency in developing countries.
4. How can solar power, empower people?....?
Solar power can empower people by using wireless communications that will enable rural and remote people around the globe to maintain close communal relationships with each other and nature.
5. Do you think Solar power could help the girls club building? How and Why?
I think Solar Power could be used by the girls club because it is sunny in New York. If you look closely at Self's projects all of the projects are done in sunny climates like Brazil, Africa, and Western United States. If Solar power is to work it has to be sunny alot.
1. what are 7 ways solar power can benefit people in developing nations?
In Brazil for example Self has Improved health care for local people by electrifying the Reserve's new health clinic. The solar-powered clinic now has a Sunfrost refrigerator that reliably preserves fragile vaccines and snake bite serums. Solar lights allow emergency surgical operations to be performed at night. In Africa SELF installed solar home systems in 300 rural homes. With solar lights as an alternative to open fires, health was improved. With little need for firewood, deforestation and desertification will be reduced, improving water availability and top-soil fertility.
2.Name 5 countries where SELF has projects?
SELF has projects in Brazil, Africa, United States, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands, Nigeria, Tanzania.
3. When was SELF founded?
SELF was founded in 1990 to promote, develop, and facilitate solar rural electrification and energy SELF-sufficiency in developing countries.
4. How can solar power, empower people?....?
Solar power provides people with the opportunity to use alternatives to the harmful methods they once used. For example, Adeola used kerosene to light her room. This was harmful to her eyes and she so desperately wants to read. Solar Power can empower Adeola because she can still learn read without hurting her eyes.
5. Do you think Solar power could help the girls club building? How and Why?
I don't think Solar Power could be used by the girls club because it is not always sunny in New York. If you look closely at Self's projects all of the projects are done in very sunny climates like Brazil, Africa, and Western United States. If Solar power is to work it has to be sunny alot.
check out the sight www.self.org and tell me 5 things that you learned and answer the questions below.
1. what are 7 ways solar power can benefit people in developing nations?
2.Name 5 countries where SELF has projects?
3. When was SELF founded?
4. How can solar power, empower people?....?
5. Do you think Solar power could help the girls club building? How and Why?
good luck!!!
EXCELLENT JOB!
I am proud of you all for answering my questions. Now when we go visit the Philip Merril Center, you guys and gals will be experts.
Yesterday I was very sick to my tummy so i did not post any questions... I will do so today later on.
take care,
jennifer
HI ladies and gents.
good to hear from Cassie and Jason. Sounds like yall are busy! Filing is no fun, but there is no escaping it in life. Organization is key to productivity! i just refiled my junk of mess today.
i have to go home to North Carolina for a family funeral tomorrow (wed-friday) so i wont be in the office, but you have checks waiting for you. You need to ask for Grace and she will give it to you.
please answer the questions that i posted asap.
thanks, jennifer
I have been filing papers for the Architects office. The work has been tedious and redundant because for the past 2 weeks we have been doing it. Filing papers is all about perception and patience. You had to percieve the different invoice numbers and match them with the folders. Some of the folders didn't exist so you had to create them. It was hard work and we still are not finished.
well today i was on the computer answering the question that u gave me and jason. When we were done with answering we went to do filing. We were filing their bills. The way they told us is to organized by the numbers and put in the folder that called"Invoices" well that what we did today and last week was mostly filing
~ cassie~
See the Philip Merrill Env. Center to answer these questions.
1. What are structural insulated panels and where are they used in buildings? could they be used in the girls club building?
Structural insulated panels used as an alternative to conventional framing, require considerably less wood.YES the Girls Club can use structural insulated panels.
2. How does the building get hot water?
The Merrill Center's SOLAR COLLECTOR system provides HOT WATER for the building. This RENEWABLE ENERGY source minimizes the use of fossil fuel and reduces air pollution.
3. Why does the building use local and renewable materials?
The Merrill Center uses local and renewable materials to conserve energy and reduce pollution.
4. What does it mean that the building is built with "certified" wood?
Certified Wood is the wood that is either CERTIFIED by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or drawn from sustainably managed forests.
5. Name three methods in which the building improves energy efficiency. Could these methods be used in the Girls Club building? How?
Optimizing Energy Performance reduces the Merrill Center's need for electricity.
Insulating the walls and roof are another way the building improves energy effiency.Green Power uses geothermal wells to assist in cooling the Center's interior in warm weather and heating it in cold weather. The Girl's Club could use green power to improve energy because NEW YORK City has all 4 seasons throughout the year.
6. What are geothermal wells?
Geothermal wells assist to keep buildings cool in the summer and heated in the winter.
See the Philip Merrill Env. Center to answer these questions.
1. What are structural insulated panels and where are they used in buildings? could they be used in the girls club building?
Structural insulated panels used as an alternative to conventional framing, require considerably less wood.YES the Girls Club can use structural insulated panels.
2. How does the building get hot water?
The Merrill Center's SOLAR COLLECTOR system provides HOT WATER for the building. This RENEWABLE ENERGY source minimizes the use of fossil fuel and reduces air pollution.
3. Why does the building use local and renewable materials?
The Merrill Center uses local and renewable materials to conserve energy and reduce pollution.
4. What does it mean that the building is built with "certified" wood?
Certified Wood is the wood that is either CERTIFIED by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or drawn from sustainably managed forests.
5. Name three methods in which the building improves energy efficiency. Could these methods be used in the Girls Club building? How?
Optimizing Energy Performance reduces the Merrill Center's need for electricity.
Insulating the walls and roof are another way the building improves energy effiency.Green Power uses geothermal wells to assist in cooling the Center's interior in warm weather and heating it in cold weather. The Girl's Club could use green power to improve energy because NEW YORK City has all 4 seasons throughout the year.
6. What are geothermal wells?
Geothermal wells assist to keep buildings cool in the summer and heated in the winter.
See the Philip Merrill Env. Center to answer these questions.
1. What are structural insulated panels and where are they used in buildings? could they be used in the girls club building?
STRUCTURAL INSULATED PANELS (SIPs), used as an alternative to conventional framing, require considerably LESS WOOD and have a HIGHER R-VALUE. (The higher the R-value of a material, the better it is at resisting heat loss or heat gain.) The SIPs are used for both walls (R 23.5) and ceiling (R 30), which greatly improves the building's "envelope performance" and reduces energy demands.
2. How does the building get hot water?
The Merrill Center's SOLAR COLLECTOR system provides HOT WATER for the building. This RENEWABLE ENERGY source minimizes the use of fossil fuel and reduces air pollution.
3. Why does the building use local and renewable materials?
The Merrill Center uses local and renewable materials to conserve energy and reduce pollution.
4. What does it mean that the building is built with "certified" wood?
Certified Wood is the wood that is either CERTIFIED by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or drawn from sustainably managed forests.
5. Name three methods in which the building improves energy efficiency. Could these methods be used in the Girls Club building? How?
Optimizing Energy Performance reduces the Merrill Center's need for electricity.
Insulating the walls and roof are another way the building improves energy effiency.Green Power uses geothermal wells to assist in cooling the Center's interior in warm weather and heating it in cold weather. The Girl's Club could use green power to improve energy because NEW YORK City has all 4 seasons throughout the year.
6. What are geothermal wells?
Geothermal wells keep the buliding cool in the summer and heated in the winter
1. google - Philip Merril Environmental Center.
We will be review this web site for the next two weeks, so it is
important you find it (call me if you cant).
2. Why is the Merrill Center considered the world's "greenest"
building?
What award has the building received?
Merrill center is consider the world "greenest" building because
all materials are made of recycled materials and created through
processes that don't damage the environment. When materials wear out, they are
recyclable.
The award it recieved is the U.S. Green Building Council's Platinum
rating for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
3. What is the "concept" behind the building?
The concept behind the building is that they combines an office building design with construction
that minimizes impacts on the ecosystem and enhances job performance.
4. What are composting toilets?
The composting toilets use no water at all. Human waste is composted
naturally to produce topsoil for landscaping. This process saves water
and minimizes the burden on sewage treatment plants that give off
nutrient pollution to the Bay.
5. What ways does this building conserve water (2 ways)?
One way the bulding conserve water is Rainwater Catchment System which reuses rainwater for everything but the kitchen sink and showers.
Another way is that Rainwater is used for fire suppression, hand washing, mop sinks, the desiccant unit make-up, laundry, and gear-washing equipment.
6. Do you think it is reasonable for the girls club building to "reuse
rainwater?" How could this work?
I believe that we don't need to reuse the rain water because i think its a waste of time, and its not going to make our world a better place.
1. google - Philip Merril Environmental Center.
We will be review this web site for the next two weeks, so it is
important you find it (call me if you cant).
2. Why is the Merrill Center considered the world's "greenest"
building?
What award has the building received?
The Merril Center is considered the world's greenest building because
all materials are made of recycled materials and created through
processes that don't damage the environment. When materials wear out, they are
recyclable. The Merril Center is also considered the world's greenest
building because it recieved the U.S. Green Building Council's Platinum
rating for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
3. What is the "concept" behind the building?
The Merrill Center combines an office building design with construction
that minimizes impacts on the ecosystem and enhances job performance.
4. What are composting toilets?
The composting toilets use no water at all. Human waste is composted
naturally to produce topsoil for landscaping. This process saves water
and minimizes the burden on sewage treatment plants that give off
nutrient pollution to the Bay.
5. What ways does this building conserve water (2 ways)?
The Merril center uses the Rainwater Catchment System which reuses
rainwater for everything but the kitchen sink and showers. Rainwater is
used for fire suppression, hand washing, mop sinks, the desiccant unit
make-up, laundry, and gear-washing equipment.
6. Do you think it is reasonable for the girls club building to "reuse
rainwater?" How could this work?
I don't think this is a wise idea because it doesn't rain that often in
New York City.
Hi it's Assiatou
which website are we supposed to go to for the answers? i tried downloadign teh pdf version but it wouldn't
Hi,
How's the week going? My first two days at the builders office have been great. I arrived the first day at 10:30, and I read the Girls Club Proposal that was submited in order to get the land. Through that, many of my questions on the actual building (the Orchard) where answered. I learnd that the Girls Club site is not only going to have one building but three, one office, gym building with a public garden roof, and a building for either to rent to an artist residential/workplace program or a school or a clininc. Then I worked on MicrosoftExcel entering city requirements for building a building. After I did that, John Waters told me to estimate how many points I thought that the Girls Club Site could get, these are ranging from either passing to a platinum certification. I estimated that the Orchard would get either Gold or Platinum because of all the Green components. In doing that spreadsheet, I learned a lot things, like there actually is a requiment for what percent of the building should get direct sunlight or at what level the thermal comfort of the bulding would be. It was an interesting task. Plus John is a nice person to intern with.
Today, when I went, since John didn't have any pending Girls Club work to do, I worked on creating a spreadsheet for another type of building project called the Cornerstone Program. The city has all these lots that they want to sell, and A&F is considering buying some lots for their own building puposes, but to do that, they have to look at what they can do on the lots, whether they are stictly residential, or if they can also build some shops on the ground floor. Once the land is looked at for it's potential use, the area is examined and based on what the land surrounding the area is going for, they have to make an estimate of what price to bid so that they have the best chance of buying or renting the lot from the city; this has to be a good bid because they do not know what other people going for the same land are going to bid. I learned by doing this spreadsheet, that there are requirments for how much land can be built when a lot is purchased, what frontage (the amoutn of space facing astreet) is, I learned that there are requiremnts for how big commericial space can be in certain residential areas, and that the way to use the space lot to it's maximum city capacity is by building a cumminity building, ie schools, or clinics, or nursing homes etc. John and I had lunch together at Mexican restaurant and talked about how to change the educational system so that students are not just exposed to the many careers out there, but also become active in changing the world around them by participating in school based activist programs; it was a good discussion.
PS- How was the Leaders Conference at the Girls Club today? John told me that you handed the pins.
Assiatou D.
See the Philip Merrill Env. Center to answer these questions.
1. What are structural insulated panels and where are they used in buildings? could they be used in the girls club building?
STRUCTURAL INSULATED PANELS (SIPs), used as an alternative to conventional framing, require considerably LESS WOOD and have a HIGHER R-VALUE. (The higher the R-value of a material, the better it is at resisting heat loss or heat gain.) The SIPs are used for both walls (R 23.5) and ceiling (R 30), which greatly improves the building's "envelope performance" and reduces energy demands.
Photovoltaic Panels
PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR panels convert solar energy directly to electricity to reduce CBF's dependence on commercially generated electricity.
Ground Source Heat Pump
The Merrill Center uses a GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMP system for heating and air conditioning. Forty-eight wells, each 300 feet deep, utilize the earth's constant temperature as a heat sink in the summer and heat source in the winter. A DESICCANT DEHUMIDIFIER and a HEAT RECOVERY WHEEL on the heat pump's ventilation system save even more energy by removing moisture from the air.
Local Materials
The Merrill Center conserves energy and reduces pollution (in this case vehicle fuel), by using local materials. More than half of the materials for this building came from within a radius of 300 miles.
Renewable Materials
We also conserve resources by using materials that are rapidly renewable. Cork flooring and wall panels come from cork oak trees. Cork, which is harvested without killing the tree, regenerates in seven to nine years. Bamboo, used for the stairs and flooring in the lobby, can be harvested every three to five years and replenishes itself naturally. Posts, beams, and trusses are made from PARALLAM Parallel Strand Lumber, utilizing wood that is usually wasted.
Certified Wood
The wood in this building (decks, plywood, and all dimensional wood) is either CERTIFIED by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or drawn from sustainably managed forests. FSC forests are MANAGED to conserve biological diversity, protect endangered species and their habitats, and encourage forest regeneration and succession. The wood is HARVESTED using methods that control erosion and minimize forest damage. For the Merrill Center, CBF placed the largest single order of certified wood to date.
Minimal Materials
The Merrill Center design also conserved resources simply by using LESS MATERIALS. The EXPOSED STRUCTURE is visible because CBF used almost NO INTERIOR WALLS and NO FANCY FINISHES.
Salvaged Materials
Wood for the sunshades was SALVAGED from the barrels of an old Eastern Shore pickle plant that was going out of business. The durable wood is a local resource that would have otherwise gone to waste. Concrete footing forms were made from reused plywood.
Recycled and Recyclable Materials
When selecting materials, CBF considered how they might eventually be reused. The METAL SIDING and METAL ROOFING panels are locally made from recycled steel scraps, cars, cans, and guns, and can be disassembled and reused. The ceiling tiles are made from 78% recycled mineral wool and cellulose fiber, the rebars are made from 95% recycled steel, and the particleboard is 100% recycled and recovered wood fiber.
Water
The Rainwater Catchment System (roof, gutters, storage tanks, and filters) reuses rainwater for everything but the kitchen sink and showers and reduces the need to draw from groundwater wells or from municipal water systems. Rainwater is used for fire suppression, hand washing, mop sinks, the desiccant unit make-up, laundry, and gear-washing equipment. This also reduces the amount of water that would flow out of the building and into the Bay carrying pollutants with it. Altogether, the Merrill Center uses 90 percent less water than a typical office.
2. How does the building get hot water?
Solar Hot Water Heater
The Merrill Center's SOLAR COLLECTOR system provides HOT WATER for the building. This RENEWABLE ENERGY source minimizes the use of fossil fuel and reduces air pollution.
3. Why does the building use local and renewable materials?
The Merrill Center uses local and renewable materials to conserve energy and reduce pollution.
4. What does it mean that the building is built with "certified" wood?
Certified Wood is the wood that is either CERTIFIED by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or drawn from sustainably managed forests.
5. Name three methods in which the building improves energy efficiency. Could these methods be used in the Girls Club building? How?
Optimizing Energy Performance reduces the Merrill Center's need for electricity.
Insulating the walls and roof are another way the building improves energy effiency.Green Power uses geothermal wells to assist in cooling the Center's interior in warm weather and heating it in cold weather. The Girl's Club could use green power to improve energy because NEW YORK City has all 4 seasons throughout the year.
6. What are geothermal wells?
Geothermal wells assist to keep buildings cool in the summer and heated in the winter.
hi to all, please answer the questions before the end of the week.
jennifer