Man designs buildings lasting 250 years

By Anonymous -

The environmentalist Denis Hanes has helped build buildings which are highly environmentally friendly. He also helped coordinate the first Earth Day in 1970.1  This was a big success. In the first year alone, more than 22 million people celebrated the holiday. Also, he is the chairman of the Builitt foundation which built this building as their headquarters in Seattle.

Here are some of the details of this building:

All of their windows are triple-panned argon-filled and stretch up to the ceiling. This completely eliminates the need for lights in the building. If all buildings were light like this in the United States, then we would reduce our energy consumption by about 15% (or about 52 billion KwH). This building uses about 1/9 of the cost of energy an average Seattle building per square foot.

The toilets use 1/2 of a cup of water mixed with biodegradable soap instead of using artificial chemicals and 1.25 gallons of water. Their toilets create safe biodegradable compost, which is then sold to the government.

Rainwater is captured in rain barrels to prevent vigorous treatment with chemicals and reduce runoff and eventually erosion.

Solar panels on the roof collect all of the energy for the building, reducing the need for dirty grid coal.

Computers automatically close the blinds to keep the hot air from entering the building. This eliminates the need for air conditioning (That is another 5% decrease in energy usage).

Finally, this building has no parking garage but does have bicycle storage.

Most impressive of all, this building is designed to last 250 years.

~Samuel


An old New York Times Paper found online

I used:
Costco Connection Magazine
The EIA
The Department of Energy (DOE)
epochrainbarrels.com

1 On the personal note, if it wasn't for this guy, there would be no Green Blog! For more about this, read our about page!↩

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