This October we finally began work on our Multi-Family green retrofit project. If you haven’t read previous articles on it, this is a project we have spent nearly a year putting together and getting the go ahead from HUD. The project is on a 78 unit senior apartment complex constructed in the late 1970′s. The [...]
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When contemplating improving our home’s performance it helps to have a general guideline or ordering of priorities when making the decisions that provide the most benefit for our investment. It’s important to look at the house as a system where each part interacts and ideally works together with the rest. If we ignore this interaction and focus our attention on single source solutions, at best we miss opportunities to leverage our decisions and in the worse case cause unintentionally negative results.
In case any of you are wondering whatever happened to this project or if it ever started, I thought I’d give a quick update on where we are in the process. No, unfortunately we haven’t started construction on the project yet. Yes, we are still planning to get going as soon as HUD and the powers that [...]
Thinking of replacing an existing toilet to reduce your water use, but hesitating because of the expense? Here’s an option you might consider. Brondell has introduced…
On Friday of last week we were finally able after months of hard work to submit our package of paperwork to HUD for review. This has been the culmination of an extraordinary effort led by Sacramento architect Michael Malinowski AIA and his staff at Applied Architecture Inc. Worthy of particular credit is Nitisha Gilra LEED AP a member of…
As promised at the end of my last post, a little info on the project. The building is two-story wood framed construction, originally built in the late seventies. As I mentioned, it is an 100% occupied HUD subsidized facility complete with a large dining room, two commercial kitchens and numerous common areas for recreational activities including [...]
I explained in my last post the basics of the an AB811 type assessment program and how it might work. The question is how would our local governments come up with the money to lend property owners? Have any other cities or counties been successful in implementation of this type of program? One of the [...]
For those of you that haven’t heard yet, the state legislature passed assembly bill AB811 in July 2008. The Contractual Assessments for Energy Efficiency Improvements bill would allow local governments to establish tax assessment districts to help property owners finance the installation of renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements to their homes.
Last November I was approached to do some consultant work for a local architectural firm on a rehab to a 78 unit senior residential facility in Sacramento. The facility was one of a number nationwide to be awarded a grant from HUD under their new Green Retrofit Program. The scope of work is fairly comprehensive [...]
