Architect and Reimagine Series speaker Sara Beardsley of Adrian Smith +
Gordon Gill speaks to Alberta Venture about the potential of green urban
Coming from New York's Dattner Architects..our next speaker brings the Rodino Federal
Building's reimagine project to Edmonton and Calgary.
John Woelfling AIA holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. John was Project Manager for the Peter W. Rodino Federal Office Building Modernization in Newark, NJ.
The Associated Engineering Plaza on Jasper Avenue at 109th Street presently looks like this.
Photograph by: Shaughn Butts, The Journal, Edmonton Journal
The Associated Engineering Building is so ugly blind dogs cross the street.
Bats cringe at its radar signature and unpopular men congregate outside to look comparatively Clooney.
Sara Beardsley, Architect of the greening of the Sears Tower will be speaking at the third Reimagine Tower Renewal Summit in Calgary, at the Water Centre, April 21, 2010 and in Edmonton at the hotel MacDonald on April 22, 2010. In this pair of luncheons, Beardsley will present some of the strategies being implemented in the new Willis Tower project that aim to reduce heating energy consumption by up to 50% and earn the building LEED® Gold certification.
Leanne Tobias provides "Strong Forecasts for Green Business and Building in 2010." Read the full story on the Greener Buildings website here.
For next year, some local information would be a benefit. Ie. Stats - how many buildings in Edmonton over 30 years old? How many have had retrofits completed?
Great idea - we will endeavour to track this information down.
Shafraaz Kaba of Manasc Isaac talks about the Servus project on City TV...
Edmonton – His Worship David Miller, Mayor of Toronto, presented his Mayor’s Tower Renewal plan at the Hotel MacDonald this afternoon to a group of developers, architects, contractors and other city builders.
