A
Handbook for Planning and Conducting Charrettes for
High-Performance Projects
August 2003 • NREL/BK-710-33425
4.3mb acrobat pdf file |
Green Building Charrettes for Georgia and South Carolina
Both the South Carolina Energy Office and Georgia
Environmental Facilities Authority receive a number
of requests for green building charrettes. These requests
frequently come from government or nonprofit organizations.
A charrette was funded in South Carolina and Georgia
each for two nonprofit projects by the respective energy
offices. The following document authored by Gail Lindsay,
Joel Ann Todd, and Sheila J. Hayter for NREL and the
DOE is one that Southface uses and recommends as an
effective guide to lead you through planning and conducting
the charrette process.
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In addition included are the resulting reports for
the charrettes Southface conducted for the remodel
of Greenville South Carolina’s Imagination
Children’s
Museum and for Georgia’s site planning
and schematic building design for Montessori of Macon’s newly
purchased property.
> Greenville South Carolina’s Imagination
Children’s Museum
> Georgia’s site planning
and schematic
building design for Montessori of Macon |
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Walkable
Community Design Guidelines
Produced
by Southface
60mb pdf file |
| This electronic publication was compiled
from a variety of documents to be used as an interactive
tool for the Walkable Communities Design Symposium, held
June 1, 2001 in Atlanta Georgia.--> |
Greenbuilding
The Benefits of Green Building and Design
- Reduced air and water pollution, resource consumption
and waste
- Lower upfront costs in building systems. Some
green buildings cost no more to build — or may
even cost less — than
conventional methods because resource-efficient strategies
integrated in the design of the building often allow downsizing
of more costly mechanical, electrical and structural systems
- Reduced operating costs through better building performance
- Improved occupant health and productivity
- Higher perceived
value and quality in a competitive market
- Decreased
demand for public grid-supplied power, water, and wastewater
systems
Green
Building Tool kit - 39 page white paper by Southface
Green Building Services, prepared for the Atlanta
Regional Commission
A
case for solar power in Georgia - by Susan Zinga,
prepared for Million Solar Roofs Initiative | 
