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You are Invited! IPFW Center for the Built Environment & the Northeast Indiana Green Build Coalition are sponsoring a Design Charrette for the Eel River Trailhead Project
When: January 15, 2010, 9 AM to Noon
Where: IPFW, Engineering Building, 2nd floor, room 235On January 15, 2010, IPFW Seniors in the Construction Engineering Technology B.S. degree program, together with members of the Northeast Indiana Green Build Coalition (NEIGBC) will be conducting a design charrette for the Eel River Trailhead project, slated to be constructed on South Whitley Street, near the Fire Fighter’s Museum, in Columbia City.
The purpose of the design charrette is to review the plans for the building and site to see if there is anything we can do to make the project more sustainable, with the goal of bringing it to a minimum LEED Platinum level. In addition to IPFW students and faculty, members of the NEIGBC, local Landscape Architects, the Friends of Eel River Trail, local Carpenter’s, Electrician’s, and Bricklayer’s Unions and all interested people are invited to participate.
The students will be building the project in March/April of 2010, with the following mentors: Hagerman Construction Co., the Indiana Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights, the local Electrician’s Union (IBEW), and the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers.
This is a tremendous hands-on opportunity to broaden and/or share your knowledge of sustainable design while helping to construct a facility that can serve to educate the public. If you would like to work with us on this project, please contact Regina Leffers, e-mail leffersr@ipfw.edu, or call 260-481-6370.
The NEIGBC is working with City of Fort Wayne's Energy & Environmental Services Dept.and Northeastern REMCto help with the Green Business Initiative. The program will train businesses on how to be more energy efficient so they can save money and help the environment.
“This is an opportunity for business to get some guidance, not only from us at the training session, but from other businesses that have already made the green transformation. We will partner each business that signs up with a mentor that has already implemented money-saving green initiatives,” said Mayor Tom Henry, City of Fort Wayne.
By attending the free three-hour training session and completing the easy to accomplish requirements, business will become Green certified.
