High Performance + Healthy Schools Symposium

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Upcoming Event

Our chapter is proud and excited to be hosting a symposium on the very important topic of High Performance Healthy Schools. We hope that the symposium will be informative and exciting to both the building industry professionals looking to expand their green building knowledge, as well as educators, facilities personnel, and anyone who is interested in creating, renovating, and engaging people in the school environment.

February 16th, 2012 | 8a – 2:30p
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Associated Members
AIA East Tennessee | Associated General Contractors | Tennessee School Plant Manager Association | ASHRAE | Alliance to Save Energy | International Interior Design Association | Knoxville Chamber of Commerce | Green Spaces Chattanooga

 

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USGBC and CSI Chapters Host the Knoxville Station Transit Center Certification Roundtable

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Monday, February 13th at 5:30 at Calhoun’s on the River map

Schedule:  5:30 networking
                   6:00 dinner
                   7:00 presentation
 
Cost:          $20 for non-CSI members (this includes USGBC members who are not in CSI)
Credits:      1 GBCI credit (approved) & 1 AIA credit (pending)
RSVP:         easttnusgbc@gmail.com by 10AM Monday, Feb 13
 

This presentation will be a roundtable format involving the owner, contractor, architect, and engineer for the recently completed and soon to be LEED certified Knoxville Station Transit Center.  The roundtable will be moderated by the USGBC East TN chapter board chair and will give attendees the opportunity to hear from the certification process participants the steps they took to achieve LEED certification.  Topics of discussion will include the length of time required to achieve certification, the reasons behind getting the building certified, difficulties encountered during the process, additional costs incurred during the process, and detailed information regarding commissioning and energy modeling.  A pre-selected series of questions will then be followed by questions from the attendees.

The presenters:
Glenn Richters  –  moderator
Don Horton  –  project architect
Nell Campbell  –  design coordinator
David Lively  –  owner’s rep
Deborah Humes  –  mechanical engineer

Project Description

The Knoxville Station Transit Center is a new $23 million dollar, 108,000 SF facility that serves as the transit station hub for bus service to the Knoxville metro area.  McCarty Holsaple McCarty joined with local architecture firm Bullock Smith & Partners to create a joint venture project team committed to creating a sustainable building. The new center includes 20 bus bays at a single protected platform, trolley stop at the front door, transit rider amenities such as bathrooms, a service counter, vending machines and administrative offices for Knox Area Transit (KAT). The location of the Transit Center provided an opportunity to design a unique building type. The center’s design creates an urban bridge that spans over the James White Parkway and provides a pedestrian link from the Civic Coliseum district to the downtown business district.

Knoxville Station Transit Center will be the 1st LEED ™ certified facility for the City of Knoxville.  The facility was designed to achieve the Silver Certification.  Some of its sustainable features are a vegetative roof, energy efficient building envelope, day-lighting controls, use of low emitting materials, and materials of high recycled content.

 

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Houses that Work workshop in Knoxville, February 17th

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

In this intensive session for existing homes, participants learn how the many complex changes in home design, building materials, mechanical systems, appliances, consumer lifestyles and expectations over the last 30 years make the building industry more complex and demanding. The session outlines the basic building science physics of air, heat and moisture flow that every builder should know so they can find new business opportunities and avoid the risks inherent in both new construction and remodel projects.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the fundamentals of air, heat and moisture flow and see how they can be applied to remodeling projects and new home construction to make them more efficient, safe, healthy, durable and comfortable
  • Applying building science to common remodel projects such as roofing, re-siding, weatherization, kitchen & bath replacements, windows, foundation & home renewal initiatives
  • Identify the best, most cost-effective technical details and process changes needed to achieve the new ENERGY STAR V3 requirements and the new IECC 2009 code changes
  • Learn about the successes of other remodelers and builders who have benefited from implementing energy efficiency objectives into their projects

Where: Knoxville Area Association of Realtors Office  |  609 Weisgarber Road  |  Knoxville, TN 37919

When:  February 17th, 2012  |  Registration: 8:00 am  |   Session: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Cost:    $125 | $140 After 2/10

For more information visit the event website.

 

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Zero Landfill Upcycling Event

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

A great opportunity to purge your materials library and make an artist or a teacher very happy! You may have little use for a 5×3 inch piece of linoleum or a stack of 2 inch laminate samples, but those very same materials present endless opportunities for a mixed media artist. I hope you will support this event through material donations or as a volunteer.

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Green Light Awards

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

east tennessee usgbc koxville 2011 green light awards

Last month the Knoxville branch of the East Tennessee USGBC chapter held its first annual Green Light Awards to honor volunteers and organizations that have made exemplary contributions to sustainability in the built environment.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory received the inaugural Green Light Community Leadership Award, accepted by Jimmy Stone, Director of the Facilities and Operations Directorate. USGBC-East Tennessee wished to recognize ORNL for its outstanding leadership in research, education, and implementation of sustainable building practices. ORNL showed an early commitment to sustainability by certifying some of the first LEED buildings in Tennessee, and has since completed an impressive 15 LEED Certified projects. Thank you, ORNL!

Some of the chapter’s committed volunteers were also recognized for their hard work. Here is a list of the chapter winners:

Outstanding chapter leadership:
Steve Weiand, outgoing chair of the Board of Directors

Outstanding committee leadership:
Education:  Paul Bielicki, Lisa Hoskins
Advocacy:  Jennifer Alldredge, Rick Held
Communications:  Monika Miller
Membership:  John McMillan

Next month the Chattanooga region of the chapter will host it’s first Green Light Awards. The event will be held on February 9 at green|spaces.

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