The Building: Center for Urban Waters
Conversations Re: Tacoma is an informal group sponsored by various community organizations and institutions, which has gathered to design and present an annual lecture series exploring urban design issues. Tonight they will present their third and final lecture – The Building: Center for Urban Waters at UWT’s Carwein Hall.
The Center for Urban Waters is an office and laboratory facility to be constructed on the east side of the Thea Foss Waterway. The Center has been designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification, the highest available of the USGBC. The project design and development team will help us explore and envision Tacoma’s future built environment through the lens of this ground-breaking project.
Speakers: Jim Parvey, PE, LEED AP; Dan Seng, AIA LEED AP, CDT; Tom Fitzsimmons, COO; Jim Goldman, LEED AP; Clare Petrich, President, Port of Tacoma Commission; Moderator, J.J. McCament, Executive Director, Urban Waters Board.
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Details
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
UW Tacoma, Carwein Hall
$10 at the door
More information at retacoma.com
Filed under: LEED
4 comments
J Jesse November 13, 2009
I wouldn’t be bragging about the LEED certification if I were them because the greenest building is one that’s already built and they had a ton of them to choose from in Tacoma when this project got underway. It would have been perfect in an Old City Hall with a green makeover. If anything, they are helping make DT’s footprint bigger by creeping over to the tidelands. How “green” is that?
D dolly varden November 13, 2009
How dare they mess up the highly functional estuary ecosystem in the Tideflats with a “green” building! Perhaps Tacoma could have instead used the land for the world’s first LEED-certified pulp mill, LEED-certified tank farm, LEED-certified rendering facility, or LEED-certified Navy moorage.
More seriously, finding a good use for Old City Hall would be great, but doesn’t a marine research lab need an easily accessible supply of recirculating saltwater?
J Jesse November 13, 2009
I thought Urban Waters was there to primarily study urban runoff from various cities and how that effects urban waters. I understand this facility is not just there to study the situation in Tacoma therefore needing to travel to other towns throughout the west, and perhaps the US, gathering samples, etc for research. Am I wrong? I’m sure a boat dock would be quite helpful in this research but aren’t the marine samples they will be needing from all over the place? Even if the needed samples were on a ship, say, in Seattle, wouldn’t you take a car seeing how much gas and time a boat would use?
I must be wrong here, eh?
T T-Town November 16, 2009
Idea: generated in Tacoma
Developer: from Seattle
Architects: from Seattle
Construction Company: from Seattle
Artist: from Seattle
Paying for it: Tacoma
City of Tacoma Economic Development Department: sound asleep