OT: Design Consultation

[phxtlc]

This is a bit off topic but desperate times call for desperate measures. In the time since being laid off I have started my own design consultaion firm. We provide architectural and interior design services from initial planning and budgeting phase through permiting and construction management. We can help procure furniture and equipment and can help with any "green" or sustainable initiatives you may be interested in. Please PM me if you have any questions, need some advice, of are interested in seeing a past project list.

Adam

(Sorry about using the board for this, but sitting around the house is making me and I figured since I've been on here every day recently I could use some word of mouth help from a more local group.)

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

Talk is LEED certified seems to be the next big thing. Are you LEED certified? What doors will open with the certification? What are your feeling on it? My neighbor has her house for sale and its Platinum LEED certified and she tells me not many are but it will be the wave of the future.

 

[phxtlc]

I haven't taken the exam yet, planning on doing so this spring. Still, I have designed, specified, and completed the paperwork for a corp office in Scottsdale (Gold). Right now the certification is mostly for the resume, as any designer or architect can submit a project to LEED for review.

Wow! Platinum is pretty difficult to achieve. I don't know if LEED in residential is going to be that widespread especially given the economy and the spec house craze. In commercial it's becoming the thing to due in public buildings, higher education, etc. My feeling is it's common sense, yea it may increase the building cost but your ROI with just energy savings will be pretty fast. The office I designed used about 30% of the power for lighting than current industry standard. Other aspects are all stuff that I've been pushing in my designs for years, low or zero VOC in materials, using recycled products, green spaces, etc.

I do think that the private sector will come around eventually and would bet that by 2015 - 2020 most if not all building will be certified.

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

I haven't taken the exam yet, planning on doing so this spring. Still, I have designed, specified, and completed the paperwork for a corp office in Scottsdale (Gold). Right now the certification is mostly for the resume, as any designer or architect can submit a project to LEED for review.

Wow! Platinum is pretty difficult to achieve. I don't know if LEED in residential is going to be that widespread especially given the economy and the spec house craze. In commercial it's becoming the thing to due in public buildings, higher education, etc. My feeling is it's common sense, yea it may increase the building cost but your ROI with just energy savings will be pretty fast. The office I designed used about 30% of the power for lighting than current industry standard. Other aspects are all stuff that I've been pushing in my designs for years, low or zero VOC in materials, using recycled products, green spaces, etc.

I do think that the private sector will come around eventually and would bet that by 2015 - 2020 most if not all building will be certified.

Thanks for the responce

 

[ttora4runner]

Talk is LEED certified seems to be the next big thing. Are you LEED certified? What doors will open with the certification? What are your feeling on it? My neighbor has her house for sale and its Platinum LEED certified and she tells me not many are but it will be the wave of the future.

Feel like being a smart a** but people are acredited and buildings are certified.


Take the LEED's exam before the new stuff comes into play and save yourself the hassle.

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

Feel like being a smart a** but people are acredited and buildings are certified.

OK Mr smart a** It is my understanding that people are accredited not acredited

Sorry I could not help myself not that I know how to spell

Take the LEED's exam before the new stuff comes into play and save yourself the hassle.

Whatz jew talkn about



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[ttora4runner]

OK Mr smart a** It is my understanding that people are accredited not acredited

Sorry I could not help myself not that I know how to spell


Whatz jew talkn about


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Eh, what can I say. Good ol Missouri edumacation.

When I was taking the LEED courses towards the end of last summer we were told that changes were being made once again to the LEED requirements and those changes would take affect sometime this year. The new accreditation requirements require a butt more load of work to recieve your accreditation. So if he takes the exam now and passes he would be able to grand-fathered in sort to speak. I don't remember all those details though.

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

Eh, what can I say. Good ol Missouri edumacation.

When I was taking the LEED courses towards the end of last summer we were told that changes were being made once again to the LEED requirements and those changes would take affect sometime this year. The new accreditation requirements require a butt more load of work to recieve your accreditation. So if he takes the exam now and passes he would be able to grand-fathered in sort to speak. I don't remember all those details though.

Do you see any clear advantage to get LEED accreditation from the residential side?