Emerging Green Builders • Athens

Hey everyone,

Check out our upcoming events for Spring 2010.

EGB Athens Upcoming Events

Wednesday, February 10: Construction Tour of the Newcomer Residence Lori Newcomer of Bork Architectural Design offers a tour her house-in-progress, built in accordance with LEED for Homes. Lori opened her office and plans to EGB members last fall with the Open Book Series, and now gives us a peek at the plans in action. Join us February 10 at 4:15pm at the Bork Architectural Design office in the Leathers Building on Pulaski Street. Carpool if possible! We’ll walk over to the house at 150 Pulaski Heights, so remember to wear appropriate footwear, as we will be on an active construction site. To RSVP, email Anna Claire Davis at acd822@gmail.com.

Saturday, February 20: Part One- Drip Irrigation Installation at the Southface Eco-Office in Atlanta. Roger Grant, LEED AP of Columbia Engineering will lead a two-part workshop installing a drip irrigation system on the greenroof and site of the Southface Eco-office. Learn about water efficient irrigation with this hands-on installation workshop. Part one will include trenching and laying the lines for the vegetable garden and greenroof. Southface will give participants a tour of the facility. The carpool will leave Athens from the gravel parking lot at Lumpkin and Wray St. at 8am and return to Athens by 6pm. Breakfast and lunch provided. Drivers needed. RSVP by emailing Kate Austin at kaustin1@uga.edu.

Saturday, February 27: Part Two- Drip Irrigation Installation at the Southface Eco-office in Atlanta
Day two of the installation workshop will build on the skills learned on day one, but first-timers are welcome. Roger Grant will lead the workshop in installing drip irrigation lines on the building site and completing the system on the greenroof. . Southface will give participants a tour of the facility. The carpool will leave Athens from the gravel parking lot at Lumpkin and Wray St. at 8am and return to Athens by 6pm. Breakfast and lunch provided. Drivers needed. RSVP by emailing Kate Austin at kaustin1@uga.edu.

Saturday, April 3: Hands On Athens Weekend Athens EGB would like to adopt a house through Hands On Athens. We are making plans and putting together our team now. If you are interested in getting involved, email Kate at kaustin1@uga.edu.

Athens Community Events:

Saturday, February 6: Barber St. Park Project We’re looking for volunteers to help out with some clearing work, if the weather cooperates, at the Barber St. site this Sat. Feb. 6. We’ve got two shifts–the morning shift, from 9 a.m. to noon, and afternoon shift, from 1 to 3 p.m. Pick one or both.

We need help cutting and removing vines, tree limbs and other debris to clear the site for a site documentation, which we’ll use to start drawing up plans for a park.

Volunteers will be given an orientation to the site and be assigned to work with a small team of other volunteers.. Most of the work will involve gathering and stacking cut branches and vines.

If you have a pair of heavy pruners (and know how to use them), please bring them. Tarps, hatchets, pitchforks, rakes and wheelbarrows will also come in handy.

Volunteers should wear appropriate clothing for outdoor yard work, and wear gloves and eye protection.

The site contains lots of vines and downed tree branches, is soggy and very steep in parts, so volunteers should be very careful. All volunteers must sign a liability waiver before working on the site.

Coffee, water and snacks will be provided.

If you can help us, please RSVP as soon as possible to Dan Lorentz at lorentz.d@gmail.com or 859.539.2331.

Check www.barberstreetparkproject.net after 8:30 a.m. on Saturday to see if the scheduled work day has been canceled to inclement weather.

CED Lecture Series:

Wednesday, February 24th
Lecture 3 – Jim Urban: Up By Roots – Healthy Soils and Trees in the Built Environment

Wednesday, March 17th
Lecture 4 – REBAR: User-Generated Urbanism

Thursday, March 24th
Lecture 5 – Alan Berger: Landscape Beyond Urbanism

Monday, April 5th
Lecture 6 – Richard Forman: Landscape Ecology

Saturday, April 17th
Lecture 7 – (Neel Reid Lecturer) Randy Marshall: Selected Work

*11 AM, Room 302 Caldwell.

I thought this might interest some of our members.

‘Sustainability: Bring It Home’….a weekend workshop to learn how to transform your home into an eco-friendly place to live. a huge variety of information from home energy alternatives, gardens, composting, raising animals, natural building, erosion control, rainwater catchment, etc. Wish I could go! (wish i could afford to go..) cost $155 for the weekend.

More info here.

contact UGA Botanical Garden 706.542.1244

have a great weekend!

–
Anna Claire Davis, LEED AP
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Hey everyone,

hope you’re all doing well.

I got this message from Ellison, one of the Athens Greenway Assistants:

The Greenway is having an invasive removal this Saturday at the College & MLK Greenway park. They’ll be meeting at 9am this Saturday the 14th for an hour or so.  Anyone interested can join, they’ll be meeting in the parking lot at College & MLK before getting started.

FYI, the Greenway has work days every 2nd and 4th Saturday and are always looking for more volunteers. Parts of the Greenway have become home to a wide variety of invasive species that they have been trying to tackle over the last year or so.

Questions? contact Ellison at:

EllisonFidler@co.clarke.ga.us

thanks,

ben

I’ve attached some pictures of the D.O.C. Unlimited project that we will be touring on Thursday. Check out more about this local firm at www.docunlimited.com Here’s the info:

Thursday, November 5th: D.O.C. Unlimited’s latest design-build project.

The house is a unique, performance-driven design that incorporates passive solar strategies, precast insulated concrete panels, high R-value windows and doors, structural insulated panels, abundant daylight, reduced waste, a cool roof, and a geothermal heating & cooling system. All of the assemblies are designed to both improve the building’s thermal envelope and to create a generous platform for living.

The project is located in Oconee County, just outside of Athens. The project is currently dried-in, but not sheetrocked. This will allow us to see the assemblies, and to understand the construction as it relates to the building’s performance.

We’d like to invite those who are interested to an informal and open tour of the house.

Time: Thursday, November 5th, 3:30pm.
Address: 321 South Burson Avenue, Bogart, GA. 30622

RSVP by emailing Kate – We will meet at the site, but let me know if you need a ride.

And after the tour…

Thursday, November 5: ASID lecture with Kerry Howard

The student chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers presents a lecture with Kerry Howard of Bravo TV’s Top Design. 5:30pm, Lamar Dodd School of Art, S150. Email Anna Claire Davis at with questions.

Sunday, November 8: Rivers Alive Cleanup from 2-6pm, not 12-4pm as originally posted.

Thanks,

Kate

When: 6:30-8pm on Wednesday, October 28th,
Where: The Leathers Building at 675 Pulaski St Suite 400.
What: We’ll enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres at Shiraz, before taking groups to the office of Bork Architectural Design (two doors down) to talk with Lori  Newcomer about the project she is currently working on, a residential project working with the LEED for Homes standards.

Tickets are $15. [This is closing quickly, as attendance is limited.] If you have already received an email from me regarding your attendance, please bring a check the night of the event made out to Athens Emerging Green Builders. Though we are at our quota with 21 people signed up, by splitting into groups we can accommodate a few more people (4 maybe), so if someone else would like to attend, send me an email.

If you are unable to attend, please let me know so that someone else can take your place.