Today we visited the Source in the River North Area of Denver - an interesting example of adaptive reuse.
SIM City
We played SimCity to learn about how cities develop, the pressures on development and what makes citizen's happy. Here's one of our cities, burning to the ground...
Boulder History Tour
We took a hour of The Hill in Boulder with Carol Taylor from the Boulder History Museum.
Lab! Shell Structures in the tradition of Heinz Isler
The History of the Bungalow
Prof. Georgia Lindsay came to the class and discussed the history of the development of the bungalow.
Trip to NREL Research Support Facility
We visited NREL's Research Support Facility, which has a lot of interesting green features.
Brainstorming Life-Cycle Impacts of Buildings
We brainstormed life-cycle environmental and other impacts of building new manmade islands off the coast of Brazil.
Guest Speakers
Two guest speakers visited our class. Ron Flax, Boulder County's Sustainability Examiner, talked about Boulder County's sustainability initiatives. Simone Nicolo showed us some of the cool capabilities of SketchUp.
LEED Credits for Williams Village North
Our class is held in Williams Village North, which was rated LEED platinum at the time of its construction (and the first LEED platinum dorm in the U.S.). We spent time today evaluating which LEED credits the building earns.
Visit to Boulder Office of Emergency Management
This week we met with Amy Danzl at the Boulder Office of Emergency Management. She told us about how they responded to the Sept. 2013 flooding events, and introduced us to their operating protocols.
Our group at the Boulder OEM.
Model Testing of the Eiffel Tower
This week we will be testing a model of the Eiffel tower under wind and gravity loads. Thank you Sarah and Yolanda for building the model!
Our model of the Eiffel Tower.
Measuring the structure's height.
Applying loads.
Presentations of Favorite Buildings
We made presentations of our favorite buildings.
Buildings selected by students in the class.