Major
props to Michael Sheerin, Jim Ferris,
Dick Worth, Steve Kemp, Gerald Versluys,
and Mark Gelfo, whose articles appear
in the latest issue of Consulting-Specifying
Engineer magazine. Michael, Jim, Dick,
Steve and Gerald joined forces on
a 6-page story, “Be Prepared:
Hospital Protection for Catastrophic
Events,” that profiles All Children’s,
Queen’s Medical Center, Mat-Su
Valley, Sumter Regional and Broken
Arrow hospitals. Meanwhile Mark penned
“Power Systems to Protect Healthcare
Data” in the magazine’s
Pure Power supplement. Check out the
stories here
and here.
Sometimes
good news has a life of its own --
like TLC going carbon neutral, for
example. Thanks to media-savvy Mark
Gelfo, PE, LEED AP, CxA, Jacksonville
Division Director, the story appears
on the Sustainabuild blog hosted by
Ellen Leroy-Reed, LEED AP, Director
of Business Development for Breaking
Ground Contracting Company of Jacksonville.
See the blog entry and some nice photos
of the new Jacksonville office here.
"Florida
Struck by a Sustainable Tsunami"
is the title of an article in the Fall
issue of Florida/Caribbean Architect
penned by TLC's Public Relations Specialist
Mary Ann Swiderski. The article chronicles
the upsurge in green building design
in 2007 after years of tepid growth.
"What was once a niche market has
exploded into mainstream almost overnight,
especially in Florida," noted Manager
of Green Design Vince Briones, PE, LEED
AP, who heads Green Guides Sustainability
for Architecture, a TLC company. "Concerns
about climate change, our dependence
on foreign oil and increased awareness
of how the environment affects our personal
health are some of the reasons for the
explosion of interest in green building
design," he said. Florida/Caribbean
Architect is the official magazine
of the Florida Association of the American
Institute of Architects.
The
Nov. 5 Orlando Sentinel featured
a comprehensive article about the
sustainable design movement in Central
Florida. The article, written by Sentinel
staff writer Jerry Jackson, focused
heavily on TLC and talked about our
role as a major player in the green
design industry and our offices becoming
carbon neutral. The piece was the
cover story of Monday’s Central
Florida Business .
 The wonderful full-page photo of
Florida Atlantic University's Christine
E. Lynn College of Nursing in the
November issue of Southeast Construction
was taken by none other than TLC's
own Sheryl Swartzle, Deerfield Beach
office manager. The photo, a bird's
eye view of the atrium, graces the
cover of a 16-page pull-out supplement
about sustainable design sponsored
by the U.S. Green Building Council's
South Florida Chapter. Newly LEED
Gold Certified Lynn College of Nursing
gets lots of exposure in the supplement,
as does TLC as the MEP engineer.
Sheryl gets a nice photo credit,
too.
Florida
Atlantic University's Christine E.
Lynn College of Nursing, which is
the first building in South Florida
to achieve USGBC LEED Gold certification,
was featured in a story by the South
Florida Sun Sentinel. The article
noted the lighting and air conditioning
sensors, bamboo floors, low-toxicity
materials, reflective roof, glazed
windows and other green features.
"Building green cost about 1
percent to 5 percent more initially,
but that's more than made up in reduced
operating costs," said Tom Donaudy,
FAU's vice president for planning.
He said the cooling system for the
Lynn building, which uses water, is
about half the cost of air-cooled
systems. University President Frank
Brogan said that every publicly funded
facility on campus will be designed
to meet the building council's standards.
Vince
Briones, PE, LEED-AP, penned a column
for the special GREEN supplement
in the Aug. 17 Orlando Business
Journal. "Working and living
green now more of a standard practice"
looks at the various green building
rating systems, some common green
design strategies, and how this
niche market evolved into one of
the profession's most sought-after
types of design. Vince is manager
of green design services for TLC
Engineering for Architecture and
heads Green Guides, Sustainability
for Architecture, a TLC company.
Jacksonville
Division Director Mark Gelfo, PE,
LEED-AP, CxA, was profiled in the
July 20 issue of the Jacksonville
Business Journal. Aptly titled
"Gelfo was an early champion
of green building engineering,"
the article details his leadership
role in Northeast Florida's sustainable
design movement including serving
as president of the U.S. Green Building
Council-North Florida Chapter. Project
designer Susan Cleveland of ASD
Architects speaks glowingly of Mark's
dedication to green building design
and his leadership abilities. The
article also talks about the new
LEED Silver for Commercial Interiors-certified
TLC Jacksonville office and how
Mark loves living in Jacksonville.
Deerfield
Beach Division Director Brian Lomel,
PE, LEED-AP, CxA, got a warm reception
at the Boca Raton City Council workshop
on May 21 when he gave a program on
sustainable building design. Deputy
Mayor Susan Whelchel was particularly
impressed, calling it a fabulous presentation.
” We need to promote LEED-certified
buildings,” she said.
The
March 1 issue of the Deerfield
Beach Observer shined the spotlight
on the sustainable design work of
TLC and the Deerfield Beach office
in a two-page story, "Deerfield
Beach engineering firm LEEDing the
way with Florida's first Green Certified
building." Division Director
Brian Lomel, PE, LEED-AP, talks
about the office's current workload
of sustainable projects, which includes
four 50,000-sf.build-to-suit office
buildings, two 100,00-sf core and
shell office spaces, two 60,000-sf
offices in Boca Raton, botanical
gardens, museums, a nature preserve,
university classroom buildings,
libraries, medical office buildings
and corporate headquarters facilities.
"Green design has been the
focus of the Deerfield office for
the last decade," he noted.
Check
out the October 2006 issue of PM
Engineer for an article by Kim
Shinn, PE, LEED-AP, TLC's Director
of Sustainable Design, about The
LEED Application Guide for Healthcare,
which is currently under development.
This new guide will help explain
how to earn LEED credits for new
and renovated healthcare projects.
It is generally based on the Green
Guide for Health Care, the healthcare-specific
green building rating system which
Kim helped develop as part of a
national task force.
Deerfield
Beach Division Director Brian Lomel
and several TLC projects are featured
prominently in a story about sustainable
design in August’s CitySmart magazine. “Green Takes the
LEED®” quotes Brian extensively
and mentions the Broward County
South Regional Library, FAU’s
Christine E. Lynn School of Nursing,
the Coconut Creek Mainstreet Sustainable
Master Plan, MTV, Miami Beach, office
improvements, the Pompano Beach
Library, Miami-Dade Children’s
Courthouse, and the Broward Addiction
Recovery Center in Ft. Lauderdale,
all TLC projects.
Our
clients and staff are always asking
about trade magazines that have
an environmental slant. Below are
a couple that are particularly worthwhile.
- Environmental
Building News and its on-line
content at www.buildinggreen.com.
Annual subscriptions to this monthly
periodical are available for about
$40. In addition to the magazine,
subscribers get access to the
“GreenSuite,” an on-line
specification and product listing
resource.
- Environmental
Design and Construction (www.edcmag.com)
and Eco-Structure (www.eco-structure.com)
are free to building trades professionals
– just go to their website,
click on the subscription link
and fill out a short questionnaire.
- Green
Building Product News sells lots
of ads to manufacturers of green
building products, so this is
a quick and easy way to get an
idea of what’s new and happening
in green building products. A
subscription form is available
by going to www.gbproductnews.com/subs.htm.
TLC's Director
of Sustainable Design Kim Shinn,
PE, LEED-AP, was the featured speaker
at a presentation in Pensacola on
environmentally green office buildings.
He told the audience of 100 or so
contractors and business owners,
“The real ‘green’
in green building is the color of
money that can be saved by improving
the indoor health of a building
and its energy efficiency.”
Read an account of the presentation
in the Pensacola News-Journal here.
Nashville's
City Paper recently interviewed
TLC's Director of Sustainable Design
Kim Shinn, PE, LEED-AP for an informative
story about sustainable building
design.
"Sustainable
design means the building's design
is completely benign as far as its
impact on the environment...nothing
is done that would impoverish the
earth," he says in the June
8 story, "New Buildings Go
Green."
He goes on
to describe how certain engineering,
architectural and construction techniques
and new products can result in more
efficient lighting heating, air
conditioning, and water consumption.
Kim is president
of the Middle Tennessee chapter
of the U.S. Green Building Council.
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