This document contains floor plans, elevations, and descriptions for 4 projects:
1) The Suever Residence with plans for the first and second floors, front, west, rear and east elevations.
2) The Ola Resort with descriptions of the site plan, guest rooms, and amenities.
3) A sample work project with descriptions of the site plan and construction documents.
4) The Abbott Residence with descriptions of sustainable building categories like energy and atmosphere, indoor environmental quality, materials and resources, and sustainable sites.
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Energy & Atmosphere
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, buildings use 39% of the energy and 74% of the Indoor Environmental Quality
electricity produced each year in the United States. The Energy & Atmosphere LEED category The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Americans spend about 90% of their day
encourages a wide variety of energy strategies: commissioning; energy use monitoring; efficient indoors, where the air quality can be significantly worse than outdoors. The Indoor Environmental
design and construction; efficient appliances, systems and lighting; the use of renewable and clean Quality LEED credit category promotes strategies that can improve indoor air as well as providing
sources of energy, generated on-site or off-site; and other innovative strategies. access to natural daylight and views and improving acoustics.
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Materials & Resources
During both the construction and operation phases, buildings generate
a lot of waste and use a lot of materials and resources. This LEED credit
category encourages the selection of sustainably grown, harvested,
produced and transported products and materials. it promotes the
reduction of waste as well as reuse and recycling, and it takes into
account the reduction of waste at a product’s source.
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Sustainable Sites
Choosing a building’s site and managing that site during construction are
important considerations fo a project’s sustainability. The Sustainable
Sites LEED category minimizes a building’s impact on ecosystems and
waterways; encourages regionally appropriate landscaping; controls
stormwater runoff; and reduces erosion, light pollution, heat island effect
and construction-related pollution.
24. “First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
-Epictetus