Class 5

Class 5

Life cycles diagram ends in dumping but there is good dumping, in which the waste dumped is biodegradable and bad dumping, where the waste never breaks down and stays around forever.

Understand conventional wall construction in Kentucky and how deconstruction can be implemented.

Don’t put blocks of texts, put simple sentences that can be explained in a presentation.

Midterm due March 7, in two weeks

Site information on slides

Use a map to demonstrate rationality

Start calling manufactures to find out construction strategies, and ingredients/ if green washing

Class 4

Class 4

Paint can be sold which keeps it out of the landfills, and allows for it to be used at a cheaper rate. (VOC?)

EPA chooses what is a hazardous rate, which limits what HFH can do.

Deconstruction is construction in reverse.  2 week is fast of a house.  Renewal 1 time free, DM permit last 30 days.

SIPs design for deconstruction movement

Belgium, Netherlands, 7 story apt building made to 4 stories

KY is receiving waste from the Northeast because KY is cheaper and counties need the money.

Most areas in KY do not have a demolition permit.  Demolition help

Vinyl is not eco-friends, but it is easier for volunteers to hang.

Any products can be recycled if there is enough and has a market, but there are few holding area until there is enough to recycle at one time.

300,000 people in Lexington.

Lumber needs to be re-graded, so lumber is rarely reused because of structural integrity. 

Dymaxion house Buckminster Fuller

Winchester gun compartmentalization.

Best waste services- recycles, collects shingles?

Syntos- Shred paper, use air and dust removal system.

Life cycle and assessment- Designing for repair and upgrade

AIAS Spec focus…

Catalogue on reserve.

Materials for Sustainable Sites Defined Ch. 1

Materials for Sustainable Sites Defined Ch. 1

-Construction has changed and new inorganic materials are being used, work is faster and cheaper, no longer using tradesman, and materials are no longer used from its regional area, but having then ship from long distance, using lots of fuel.  But the 21^st century needs to change its ways and think about the global climate, and ecological changes due to such carelessness, and adapt to a more advanced clean and organic way to build.

-Different materials have different shades of GREEN and depending on the material it will also use a different type of construction skill, which not all workers are skilled to do.

-“Materials and products for sustainable sites are those that minimize resource use, have low ecological impacts, pose no or low human and environmental health risks, and assist with sustainable site strategies.”

-Virgin resources are fresh materials that have never been processed or cycled

-Reducing structure size, adding on to existing structures, and reusing or recycling resources can reduce the need for virgin resources.

-Designing for deconstruction is when materials are designated as reusable and then constructed in a way that can be deconstructed simply and be used again.

-Using materials from renewable resources insure there will not be a depletion of the resource as opposed to non renewable which means that when it is gone…it is gone.

-Some companies have a take-back-program where the company will take its product back to recycle or repurpose after the customer is done using it.

-Some materials that are needed can’t be completely environmentally friendly, but can be made to minimize environmental impacts, like using sustainably harvested or mined materials, using certified (GREEN) woods, using minimally processed materials, specifying low embodied energy materials, specifying materials produced with energy from renewable sources, using local materials, and specifying low-polluting materials, specifying low-water use and low-water-polluting materials.

-Many manufacturing processes create toxins in materials that over its life-cycle slowly emits the toxins into the air.

-Some materials assist with sustainable site design strategies, like cement pavement, which is not usually desirable because of the high embodied energy, but over a long time help to cool the area around it to reduce the energy used to do the same affect.

World Changing: A User’s Guide For The 21st Century

World Changing: A User’s Guide For The 21^st Century

-Questioning Consumption: As we use more of the planets resources, it has less to offer and by limiting the amount we consume we can enjoy life more by doing without the extra that just clutters our life.

-Ecological Footprints: A type of calculation has been created to see how much land would be needed of the earth to sustain our current lifestyle, which is called “the economical footprint”.  World average is 5.4 acres, but an average American is 24 acres and the Chinese average is 4 acres.  The quiz is meant to give use a better sense of the impact we have on the earth.

-Choice Fatigue: The more choices we have the more stress we have and the more dissatisfied with the outcome we are.  To overcome this we often over consume in order to insure we like our choice, which leads to extra clutter.

-Brands in a Choice-fatigued Market: Companies are pressured by competition with other companies to create more choices for buyers when in actuality the buyer will be less pleased by the product.  The buyers send mix messages by saying they want a simpler product but still buy the complicated products.

Consuming Responsibly: Buying less is a green decision, but even if we continue buying more we still need to buy smart.  In whatever we buy, we research and gain the ability to find what goods are actually good.

How to Buy Better Clothes: Look for sweat shop- free labor tags, such as American Apparel, and look for organic or renewable fibers without pesticides, such as organic cotton, modal, lyocell, bamboo fibers, merino wool, and hemp.  There are also recyclable end-of-life options, such as Patagonia, which you can return your clothes to be shipped to Japan (ECO CIRCLE) which disassembles the weave and reprocess it.  The energy for transportation is the only concern.

Green washing: Is a technique of companies to appear GREEN when in reality they are not.  Be wary of statements like: “natural”, “environmentally friendly”, “good for planet”, “no environmental impact”, “save the earth”, all statements without a creditable third party source.

Green Remodeling: We focus on recycling our waste which does not cause as much problems as the waste from remodeling a home which we overlook when dreaming big for the new change.  As renewable products become more available, sustainable solutions are becoming cheaper and more preferable.

Wood Flooring: Over half our rain forests have been used up and a solution to stop this it to use reclaimed wood from sites that would otherwise be sent to the land fill.  Reclaimed wood is just as beautiful as new wood.

Non-Wood Flooring:  Linoleum can be made with natural and recyclable ingredients, and carpet can be recycled to make new carpet, which is the GREEN option provided no extra chemicals are added.  Glass is infinitely recyclable without compromising its integrity and can be used in many ways.

Reuse Centers:  These centers except building demolition and sort through it to find treasures to be used again as opposed to going in to a landfill.

A Zero-Energy Home:  There are many ways to heat and cool a house with design as opposed to producing extra energy.

Smart Home Technology: Technology can be used to monitor energy in a home and shut it off when not needed or used.

A Prefab Home: Prefabricating homes has become more popular and shows people are more conscious about the amount of space they need to live.  Prefab can aid people in immediate need, like after a disaster, or it can allow people with ease of personal customization.

A Bright Green Home: Time is a missing aspect in the construction of a home, because no matter how high the expectations for a long lasting structure…one day it will be absolute and need to grow or change in some way.  A house by Andrew Maynard called the Holl House was made to combat this by providing a shifting and grow home with the ability to unfold and change shape.  This lasting ability will help against unneeded building demolishing waste in landfills.

Class 3

Class 3

Population has an effect on our consumption

Poor product design is the problem

Kyoto protocol 1997 one of the first world discussion about global climate change

No perfect GREEN solution, but we need to weigh through the shades of GREEN to make the best decision.

Buckminster Fuller- goal to use all aluminum for shell of house, Touched on sustainability with-out focus.  Full recyclable material. 

Operating manual for space ship earth.

If anything is not aluminum the aluminum is not longer as recyclable

Bucky Ball

Easter Island

Eben Bayer- Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Deconstruction as appose to demolition.  Retaining wall, interlocking

Material detail construction.

Ikea

Understand conventional process and life cycles of material making and demise.

1. Material Resourcing- Consider the availability of the material resource

2. Material Harvesting- Consider how the material resource is being extracted or harvested

3. Manufacturing Process- Consider the availability of the material resource

4. Material, Energy, and Transport- Consider how far the material traveling from the manufacturer?

5. Material in Use- Consider the maintenance and life span of the material.

6. Material Disposal- Consider how the material contaminates the earth once landfilled.

Eric Corey Freed, organicARCHITECT

Power Point- showing life cycles- system you which to study, material assembly, worst offender?

Class 2

Class 2

Field Trip to Lexington Recycling Center

Over slept, first time in a while my alarm on my phone did not go off, or maybe I just did not set it or maybe I slept walked and turned it off, not sure.  I scrambled around to get my stuff together then rushed to try to find the Recycling Center.  I called a class mate for address but he could just tell me the street it was on and the street it was off of.  Spent 45 min trying to find it and finally did, but I praised God that everyone was just starting the tour when I got there so that I did not miss it and would have to find another time to come back to see it.

Anyway… We first saw all the “recyclables” (a giant hill) for that day being moved by a tractor to the belt that sorted through all the materials.  Then we saw the different sorters with people standing on both sides of the belts grabbing and removing any plastic bags they found, because they are evil and get caught up in the machines as they go through.

            Then we went outside to see and learn about the different plastics that could be recycled there.  We saw a big pile of bottle cap remnants that could not be recycled there and would use energy to be shipped “away”.

Then when we went back to go to the meeting room we saw giant cubes of different kinds of materials.  It looked like they could have been used to make walls for a house (they did use some of them to separate zones in the place).

In the meeting room we separated our product we thought were recyclable but were disappointed to find many were evil!  Anything can be recycled, there just needs to be enough of it and a demand for the material.

Class 1

Class 1

Change can happen from consumer demand

Life cycle cost- extraction or raw material- energy used- life of product used- can you replace it?- what is the life time?- Where does it go and for how long?

Products are made to break after so long to encourage sells and grow economy

Creating structures that can be deconstructed instead of demolished

Before- trash “disappeared”- Now- trash lasts “forever”