Green, healthy buildings, sustainability planning and action
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Services - Green Planning and Programs
• Sustainable city planning
• Municipal green building programs, incentives and assessment tools
• Sustainable energy, water and waste infrastructure consultation
• Greenhouse-gas-neutral buildings and businesses
Example Projects
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Sustainable Community Development Tool A web based toolkit for selecting and setting sustainable community features and performance targets. |
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Lynn Valley Town Centre Plan. A neighbourhood plan for a redevelopment in the Metro Vancouver Region, including an advanced, networked energy utility concept. With Ramsay Worden Architects, 2009 |
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Fort St John B.C. Sustainable Neighbourhood, with The Sheltair Group, in progress 2008-09 |
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Wuxi Zhongguancun research park and residences- Wuxi, China. Sustainable design consultant & design workshop facilitation, Wuxi Zhongguancun research park and residences- complete community, Wuxi, China. For CPC Group Architects and CMHC International, Dec. 2008 |
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Nan Hui Sustainable Demonstration Community - Shanghai Green design and technology consultant, Nan Hui Sustainable Demonstration Community, Shanghai, China, with Ramsay Worden Architects and CPC Group, Shanghai, 2004-05. |
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Meditation retreat facility & ecological reserve - Whidbey Island Design advisor, Earth Sanctuary, a meditation retreat facility and ecological reserve on Whidbey Island, Washington State, incorporating advanced restoration of wetlands habitat, environmental art and very small footprint construction. Work is underway on a 500 year vision (2001-2006) |
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The Zhongshan Rd. Rehabilitation Project, Qingdao China Rehabilitation of a sector of an early 20th century courtyard housing district as an example of urban repair, economic and cultural continuity and sustainable technologies. Funded by UNCHS (with the International Centre for Sustainable Cities, Commonwealth Historic Resource Mgmt., Habitat Design + Consulting and Ramsay Worden Architects, 2001-2004). |
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Fitchburg Center, Wisconsin Project environmental and residential design advisor for Fitchburg Center, a new community in Wisconsin combining compact housing, a pedestrian core with high-tech employment and services, and environmental conservation planning. (1993-present) |
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Santa Monica Core team member, Sustainable Building Design Guidelines, The City of Santa Monica (With Sheltair Ltd., 1996-99), The product is a comprehensive set of environmental protection and sustainable design and building criteria adopted by the municipal government and incorporated into its municipal code. |
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Whistler Green Principal consultant, Whistler Green® Home Standard development. A trial of a locally-assessed green home standard applied to new homes, with the Resort Municipality of Whistler and Nita Lake Development Corp., 2003 |
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Seattle South Lake Union Former board member and projects committee co-chair, The Urban |
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H&M Carbon Neutral Principal consultant, Hartley and Marks/Paperblanks Publishers, Climate Change Neutral Program, a program to calculate and invest greenhouse-gas offset purchases for the business into sustainable development projects in South Asia. In progress, 2005. |
Environmental Institute, Seattle WA, a non-profit working with the Seattle City Administration and the private sector to advance sustainable urban development . The main project under David’s tenure was the Seattle South Lake Union Sustainability Guidelines for private sector developments (with Mithun Partners). The South Lake Union project was honoured by a BEST environmental business award for 2003."If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,- and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages, it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run".
Henry Thoreau
