Rendering the First Consultant
Hmmm, maybe that title’s a bit aggressive. Last week we had Clinton and Luke over to the house with a re-use/demolition consultant from the Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre. Lighthouse is an interesting place – offering a variety of services (including a free reading room/resource centre on Granville Island) to those looking to build in sustainable ways. Eileen Keenan was the Lighthouse rep for the meeting and we had a good discussion of where on the green spectrum we wanted to be. It is, of course, a multi-dimensional problem, with cost, schedule, “greenness”, and design practicality all coming into it. The real drivers, as always, are cost and schedule.
Eileen described a few of the demolition options available and quizzed us on where in the spectrum we would like to be. Of course I piped up with “low cost, high re-use” – choices that generally don’t go together. The saving grace, hopefully, is that we’re willing to do a bunch of the work and we’re able to move out early to give us time to do the demo work. What we end up with remains to be seen but Eileen’s going to put together a report with recommendations on strategy, pointers to resources, and hopefully some guidance for the architects to know what’s available for re-use. I’m confident this effort will be worth it – both financially and in reducing the amount of material in the landfill.
While we were talking re-use inside the house, Luke was outside in the rain getting a handle on the details of our lot – where shading trees are, height of neighbouring houses, etc. This info will now be fed into the environmental modeling of heat, sun, and wind to help us maximize the natural sources of heat, light, and airflow. People talk a lot about using energy efficient lighting and appliances but the beauty of good architecture is that it can give us buildings that require running those lights and appliances as little as possible. Another good sign of progress was the CD of images that Clinton dropped off. It includes a number of sketches we’d seen before but also has a few 3D renderings based on the model and drawings we saw last time. I’ve posted a small version of one of the renderings here. We like most of what we see in the renderings – they confirm some of the things we liked about the model and they raise some questions about the interface with the street.
So now we're caught up. I have been talking about getting this blog going for ages but I wanted to document some early events and get us caught up to today's status before posting everything. Now we've done that (back-dating early posts so that you can see the temporal progression) and hopefully we can continue to contribute something at least weekly... Come on back for more!
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