Happy New Year, THANK YOU!, and…Sexy Faucet!!??

HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR from the USGBC North Florida Chapter!  This year is going to rock because we will have built the SRC and moved this region closer to a more sustainable and profitable path.

THANK YOU!  Thanks so very much to all of you who generously donated towards the SRC as a year end tax deductible donation in 2011!  We SO appreciate your support and have created a new KUDOS page just for you!

Yes, yes…we did say sexy faucet in the title of this post.  Part of the mission of the SRC is to educate as we create, design, build, certify, and operate the Center.  So…we wanted to share one cool, cutting edge product/technology we are hoping to install in the restrooms of the SRC — an automatic water faucet that has a solar (works in artificial light) LED and LCD diagnostic screen that will communicate water temperature and wash time providing educational user feedback.

 

 

 

 

Check out the video on this sleek gadget: http://www.sloanvalve.com/Our_Products/BASYS.aspx.  Thanks Aaron Schreiber, Interior Designer at Stellar and USGBC NF Board Member, for this suggestion!

 

SRC on First Coast Connect with WJCT this morning!

Thanks WJCT, First Coast Connect, and especially Melissa Ross for having us on this morning to talk about the SRC!

If you missed it, go to http://www.wjctondemand.org/, click on Wed under First Coast Connect, and scroll to the time stamp: 27 minutes and 8 seconds (27:08).

Please Consider a Year-End Tax Deductible Donation to the SRC — No donation is too small

 3 Easy Ways to Donate

• Personal Donation
  • Benefits: 2011 tax deductible, receive recognition such as name engraved on sidewalk outside the Center, and feel good in helping your community move forward in a concrete, visible, and long term manner

• Donation in honor/in memory of a loved one
  • Benefits: receive an instant printable certificate to gift someone during the holidays (makes a great stocking stuffer!), 2011 tax deductible, person will receive recognition such as name engraved on sidewalk outside the Center, and you will feel good making a close one happy and in personally helping your community move forward in a concrete, visible, and long term manner

• Company Donation or Sponsorship
  • Benefits: Enhance your brand, receive extensive exposure, join other sustainable leaders on the “who’s who in sustainability in NE Florida” wall in the SRC, year-end tax deductible donation, visible recognition, and feel great about being a part of an incredible undertaking that will positively impact future generations to come.

• Types of Donations
  • Company year-end tax monetary deductible donation
  • Employee matching – encourage employees to give and match their total contribution (Contact Sarah Boren for sample email)
  • In-kind product or service to help build the SRC (Sample letter)

•  Types of Sponsorship Opportunities
  • SRC Legacy space – sponsor a space within the SRC and receive naming rights of that space, the tremendous publicity and frequent mentions of your company’s name, and all the benefits from the equivalent level of the donation package (Details)
  • Sponsor a table and attend the USGBC NF Annual Awards Gala on January 26, 2012 – all proceeds go to the SRC (Additional sponsorship opportunities)

Thank you in advance for your support and helping make this Center a valuable asset for everyone in the community!  We could not do it without you!

The SRC Team

Check out www.metrojacksonville.com — front page coverage of the SRC

Thanks MetroJax!

Busy day today for the SRC

Hi!  Lots going on regarding the SRC today:

• Thanks ULI NF for letting us say a few words about the SRC!  Corie Baker with Pond & Company and pro-bono architect on the SRC, did a great 5 minute pre-presentation on the SRC at a Urban Land Institute North Florida (ULI NF) breakfast this morning.  ULI NF had a fantastic presentation on how the built environment ties into health and sustainable communities with presenters Dawn Emerick, CEO, Health Planning Council of NE FL and Christopher Overdorf, Principal, ELM.
• Informational presentation on the SRC to the Downtown Development Review Board today at 2pm at the JEDC.  Anyone welcome.
• SRC Systems Huddle Group Meeting today at 3pm at TLC.  Anyone is welcome to come who is interested in helping with designing the best systems for the SRC such as mechanical, controls, lighting, technology/smart building, solar, wind, plug load/equipment needs (computers, kitchen appliances, AV, LED displays, etc.), and more.
• Updated image of front of SRC — WOW, doesn’t that look amazing!  What a wonderful asset to have downtown, two doors down from City Hall.  Let’s make this wonderful project a reality!  Please consider making a donation or sponsoring a space by clicking on the cute shiny sun on the right now.

SRC Streetscape Rendering

Check out the first rendering of the SRC exterior!  Thanks Allan Iosue (Pond & Company), Kevin Songer (Metro Verde), Bob Chabot (Jax Zoo), Catherine Burkee (Breaking Ground Contracting), Kevin Bennett (Emerging Professional), and Mercelin Etienne (UNF Construction Management Student) for your terrific ideas!

HUGE Thanks

It is apropos given the time of year to relay a GINORMOUS THANKS (yes…ginormous is now an official dictionary word) to all those individuals and companies who were the first believe in and to step up to donate their time, products, and expertise to help with the SRC!

We want to specifically shout out to:

• Individuals:
• Corie Baker, Architect and Former USGBC NF Board Member, Pond & Company
• Mark Gelfo, Engineer and President, USGBC NF Board, TLC Engineering for Architecture
• Tom Goldsbury, COJ and Treasurer, USGBC NF Board
• Rob Riva, Attorney and USGBC NF Board Member, Holland & Knight
• Ellen Reed, Immediate Past President, USGBC NF Board, ELR Consulting Group
• Eric Hickox, Director of Pre-Construction, Auld & White Constructors
• Jose Cardenas, Architect, Hota Design
• Allan Iosue, StreetScape Design, Pond & Company
• Kevin Songer, Green Living Wall, Metro Verde
• Bob Chabot, Green Living Wall & StreetScape, Jax Zoo
• Catherine Burkee, Education Ideas, Breaking Ground Contracting
• Melanie DeMasi, IFS Business Services
• Joann Leisher — PR and marketing services
• Tony Turrin, UNF
• Dan Fulmer, FulTech Solutions
• Companies
• JSA, Inc. — donated Corie Baker’s initial SRC design time
• Holland & Knight — donated legal services to negotiate lease with COJ
• TLC Engineering for Architecture — donating all engineering and LEED administration
• ELR Consulting Group — creation of SRC logo
• Pond & Company — donating Corie Baker’s design and coordination time
• Auld & White Constructors — donating all construction management
• Titan America (Greg Tenuta) — concrete
• InterfaceFLOR (Ron Titus) — carpet
• Certified Control Systems (Ernie Alton) — HVAC controls
• Coastal Recycling Services (Charles Latham) — recycling C&D
• Color Wheel (Brittany Humphrey) — paint
• AXIA Public Relations — SRC PR
• ELAD Group (Lori Thomas) — salvaged items from AT&T renovation
• Shaw Contract Group (Rebecca Shaw) — carpet
• GreenScape (Anna Dooley)
• FulTech Solutions (Dan Fulmer, Tim Miller) — green electronics (basically making sure all systems talk to each other!)

WOW!  What a list!  Thank you everyone so VERY MUCH!  We will also be putting posters with SRC interior and exterior renderings and company logos on the actual windows of the SRC space in the next week or so.

Let us know if we are missing anyone!

Happy TG everyone!

Lunch and learn about another downtown LEED CI project

Did you know that there was a downtown building that has already achieved LEED for Commercial Interiors Gold certification?  Come Thursday and find out more!

November Masters Speakers Luncheon:  CSX 550 Water Street LEED CI Gold Case Study

Thursday, November 17, 2011; 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

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Presented By:
Jill DeMarotta, IIDA, LEED AP BD+C, Gresham Smith & Partners
Stephanie Irwin, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C, Gresham Smith & Partners
Gerald Versluys, PE, LEED AP BD+C, TLC Engineering for Architecture
Peter Trolle, CFM, CSX Transportation

Learn how the CSX 550 Water Street project achieved LEED-CI Gold certification. Discussion will include:

• Furniture selection impacts
• Ways to achieve credits for a tenant improvement in an existing building that is not LEED certified
• Innovations in lighting design

Currents, Second Floor in the Aetna Building, 841 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville, Florida 32207

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Special thanks to our sponsor!

Final SRC design approved, looking to the outside, huddle groups

LOTS GOING ON!  The momentum surrounding the SRC and its Mobile Unit is truly amazing and contagious!  Here are a few highlights:

• Final design for the interior of the SRC approved last Friday by the USGBC NF Board of Directors.  WooHoo!
• Wonderful ideas are already flowing about the exterior part of the SRC along the sidewalk and street.
• SRC Donation and Sponsor Package goes live!  Please help us find the moola to make this amazing project a reality.  Please send to all your close friends and family and to companies who believe in sustainability in our region.  Let’s make this happen!
• Various SRC huddle groups are meeting between now and Thanksgiving to address interior design, furniture, marketing, etc.  If you want to get involved, just reach out to one of the huddle group facilitators.

SRC Task Force Huddle Groups

Huddle groups are temporary teams who come together for a short period of time to figure out a certain aspect of the SRC

• SRC Fundraising Team– this team is in charge of raising enough money to build and open the SRC through meetings, proposals, sponsors, and individual contributions all of which includes researching corporation grants and sponsorships, seeking in-kind product donations, and to some extent vetting products
• • Members: Sarah Boren (Facilitator – sarahboren@usgbcnf.org; 904-535-0055), USGBC NF Board, and Vanessa Harper
  • Meetings: no regular meetings; contact Sarah Boren (sarahboren@usgbcnf.org; 904-535-0055) if you would like to help
  • SRC Donation & Sponsor Package

• Overall Design/Engineering/Construction LEED Teams

• Core SRC Team Members: Sarah Boren (Facilitator), Eric Hickox, Mark Gelfo, Corie Baker, Ellen Reed, Tom Goldsbury, Hava Binkley, Rondra Bolden, Wayne Dunn
• Meetings: occasional; most everything done by email

• LEED Documentation Members: Mark Gelfo (Facilitator: mark.gelfo@tlc-eng.com), Sarah Boren, Ellen Reed, Kevin Bennett (kevben83@yahoo.com), Mercelin Etienne (etienne_mj@yahoo.com), Mary Couch, Sonja Curcic (curcicsonja@gmail.com)
• Next meeting date: TBD (Contact Facilitator)

 

• Exterior Huddle Group– this group is in charge of designing the SRC’s exterior space on the sidewalk and to the side of the Center including landscape, hardscape, urban agricultural components, LID, rainwater harvesting, etc.
  • Members: Corie Baker (Facilitator – bakerc@pondco.com), Catherine Burkee, Allan Iouse, Kevin Songer, Sarah Boren, Kevin Bennett, Aaron Glick, Chris Flagg,  Anna Dooley, Bob Chabot, Kevin Bennett, Mercelin Etienne, Janna Tamargo, Kim Gainey
  • Next meeting date: week before Thanksgiving probably (see Resources page for notes from meeting on Oct. 26th)
  • Resources: Check out local green roof blog on a building that is tracking LEED Platinum: http://breakinggroundgreenroof.com  

• Interior Huddle Groups
  • Systems– Mechanical, controls, lighting, technology/smart building, solar, wind, plug load/equipment needs (computers, kitchen appliances, AV, LED displays, etc.)
    • Members: Mark Gelfo (Facilitator – mark.gelfo@tlc-eng.com), Dan Fulmer, Ernie Alton, Pat Walsh, John Rall, Wayne Dunn, Randy Bomar, Ellen Reed, Tim Miller, Sarah Boren, Kevin Bennett, Mercelin Etienne
    • Next meeting date: TBD (contact Facilitator)

• Furniture, Displays/Gallery & Reuse vs New opportunities
• Members: Melanie DeMasi and Jose Cardenas (Co-Facilitators – mdemasi@ifsbi.com/904-398-8100 and jcardenas@hotadesign.com / 904-399-5282), Susan Davies, Robert Balch, Jose Cardenas, Courtney Rollwagen, Arvid Pedersen, Eric Evans, Sarah Boren, Kevin Bennett, Mercelin Etienne, Ellen Reed
• Next meeting date: TBD (contact Facilitator)

• Interior Design of Rooms/Spaces (e.g., Training, Bathrooms, Kitchen, Office, Mechanical), Flooring, Paints & Wall space for 2D exhibits and art work
• Members: Aaron Schreiber and Marie Hurst (Co-Facilitators – aschreiber@stellar.net and mhurst@nemours.org), Ron Titus, Brittany Humphrey, Jose Cardenas, Courtney Rollwagen, Arvid Pedersen, Mercelin Etienne, Sarah Boren, Melanie DeMasi, Kevin Bennett, Mercelin Etienne
• Next meeting date: TBD (contact Facilitator)

• Donor Recognition Wall/Interactive
• Members: Kevin Bennett and Mercelin Etienne (Co-Facilitators — kevben83@yahoo.com and etienne_mj@yahoo.com), Sarah Boren, Corie Baker, Ellen Reed
• Next meeting date: Nov. 2nd 3:30pm

• Marketing & Communications (Messaging the SRC) Team– this team is in charge of getting the word out about the SRC through large media outlets (TV, print, radio, internet, etc.), reaching out to professional organizations via email and presentations, and keeping SRC blog active with new information
  • Members: JoAnn Leisher (Facilitator — joann.leisher@gmail.com), Ellen Reed, Dana Carlson, Jason Mudd, Will Duke, Trish Michaels, Courtenay Rollwagen, Emily Crews, Sarah Boren
  • Next meeting date: Thursday, Nov. 3 10-11:30am AXIA Public Relations 200 E. Forsyth

• Mobile Unit Team– this team is in charge of getting the mobile unit designed, built, and out educating the community. This involves with researching types of vehicles and costs, creating a sponsorship package, working with JEA as a partner, holding charrette(s) for design, features, and use, finding products, etc.
  • Members: Rondra Bolden (Facilitator – rbolden0@yahoo.com), Tony Turrin, Ashley Evans, Robert Balch, Jane Upton, Sarah Boren, Bruce Doueck, Kevin Bennett, Mercelin Etienne
  • Next meeting date: TBD (Contact Facilitator)

• SRC Programming Team
  • Members: Sarah Boren (Facilitator – sarahboren@usgbcnf.org), Bruce Nappi (nanook@A3society.org),
  • Next meeting date: TBD (Contact Facilitator)

• SRC College/Highschool Internship Program Team
• Members: Sarah Boren (Facilitator – sarahboren@usgbcnf.org), April Moore, Elizabeth Porter
• Next meeting date: TBD (Contact Facilitator)

Thank you!

Close to final design of the North Florida Sustainability Resource Center