Won a Platinum award for being Champions of Alternative Transportation through May in Motion & ACHD Commuterride. # Sending out the prelim. for a home design that will go on Lake Gaston, in Virginia. Then off to see Ryan Schupe at Alive after 5. # Updating our project map with Kentucky & Missouri http://gravitaslc.com/AboutGravitas.html somehow [...] Read More

Additional Sustainable Links, credit due to the USGBC for assembling this exhaustive, continuously updated resource: www.USGBC.org Life Cycle Analysis & Costing ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) [NIST] BuildingGreen.com – Life Cycle Assessment California Life Cycle Cost Assessment Model ENVEST (environmental impact estimating design software) [UK BRE] LCA Center Life [...] Read More

This contemporary home was built in rural Idaho, to a couple interested in passive solar, and eclectic materials.  The use of corrugated aluminum, raw concrete, and bountiful sunshine, fulfilled their desires, as well as ours. –Rendering– –Video– Floor Plan —To download information about the Gallatin, or Gravitas, click on the boxes above— Technorati Tags: Stock [...] Read More

We hope to provide you with another resource to track down information regarding sustainable design, and green building.  We have relied heavily on the USGBC for many of these www.USGBC.org. Building Industry Professionals for Environmental Responsibility. BIPER USA provides a range of resources for sustainable design professionals. GreenClips is a summary of news on sustainable [...] Read More

I wanted to post a quick belated note about the Timber frame presence at Greenbuild in Boston last year. It’s old news with Greenbuild Phoenix now on the horizon but still relevant. It’s easy to forget with the loud and much publicized arguments against logging and deforestization that wood is indeed a very sustainable option [...] Read More