| This months presenter will be Jim Walker, Community Planner and Waste
Management Consultant. Reuse, recycling, and reduction techniques
to minimize the amount of jobsite waste that goes to our landfills.
Websites of interest
www.remodeling.hw.net/howto/1997/sept97/conftr/conftr.sht
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| On-site Sewage Disposal Options
Straw Bale Association of Texas (SBAT) Wednesday, August 26, 1998 at Casa de Luz, 7pm. Speaker will be Irvin Coonrod with the Austin-Travis County Health Dept. He will discuss the various on-site sewage disposal options and give us updates on the everchanging rules. Austin Community College Classes
Austin Community College's (ACC) Building Construction Technology (BCT) Department is offering several building courses this fall. One course is a hands-on sustainable building materials construction class and another is Construction English/Spanish. ACC's short semester classes start September 21. Registration and admission to ACC may be required. More information on these and other classes will be in September's newsletter. If you can't wait until then and want more information now, contact Warren Heatwole, BCT Department Director, at 223-6084. Passive Solar Competition
TXSES is pleased to announce the passive solar model home contest with a $200 prize for the winner! The selected models will become part of our exhibition booth to demonstrate the virtues of passive solar design and sustainable building. A panel of judges in the green building professions will name the winner and runner-up on Oct. 7th based on: overall aesthetics, effectiveness of passive solar features & sustainable building design demonstration, and durability. All models must be no larger than 24" square and 12" high and become the property of TXSES. The first place winner may opt for a 53 Watt solar electric panel or the $200. Please contact Kathryn Houser, Director, at 326-3391 with questions. |
Austin Green Building meets Korea
Sue Barnett was invited to the Korean Institute for Energy Research to consult on Korea’s first "Green Building". KIER is building a new research and office building with some impressive sustainable measures. Their climate is very cold in the winter and steamy all summer. They have plenty of rain and do not irrigate anything. But this office building will have rainwater collection, and greywater reuse within the building. It incorporates natural day lighting and a partial second skin to generate winter heat to be used within the building. On the roof are PV’s to power emergency lighting, and they are using locally quarried granite cladding and floors. Sue Barnett was the keynote speaker at Korea’s first Green Building Conference. She says that she can’t tell us what the other speakers really said because the rest of the conference was given in Korean! But this conference was a kick off to a Korean Green Building Council to be made up of university faculty, research scientists, professional organization leaders and professionals. From what little Sue saw of it, she says "Korea is a beautiful country, very green- quite a switch from Texas these days!" New Interactive CD
Sue Barnett has a great opportunity for the SBC. She is asking (i.e. volunteered) the SBC to help to work with the City’s Green Building Program staff on their new interactive CD and internet project. This will be called Green Building Basics and will be an introduction to green building principles. SBC’s role will be to volunteer to "interact" with the CD course and give feed back on what you liked and suggestions for making it better. The project is just beginning and will be ready for viewing sometime in the Spring of 1999. San Antonio SBC
Larry Wayne Haese with Graywater Recycling, Incorporated of San Antonio, Texas will be the featured speaker for the Tuesday, August 25, 1998 meeting of the San Antonio SBC. Mr. Haese will speak on the topic of Water Recycling systems. |