natural alternative homes

As I bounced around today i connected with a few websites that threw me into a flashback of the 1970's hippie architect movement. So thats what thiose guys have been up to. Click on the picture of the web page to go there.

eColegy

The Indiana Department of Energy Development 1 sponsered an all day worksop on Photovoltac system design and considerations Wednesday at the Allen County Library. Very briefly I'll sumarize the key info here.

Website references:

http://www.solarenergy.org/

Online training Books and other resources.

http://www.the-mrea.org/index.php

Hosts of the largest energy fair in the region for twenty years. Between near Stevens OPoint Wisconsin, (Point Beer). The seminar presenter was really pushing this group.

http://www.focusonenergy.com/

Wisconsin oriented but some good short fact sheets and guides.

http://www.dsire.org/

Database of Govmt incentives - very thin in Indiana - yell at your reps.

Federal: 30% no limit tax credit, State of Indiana: nada

http://www.aeesolar.com/

Better (cheaper) than Real Goods, (real goods, real expensive), source of solar stuff.

and

http://www.homepower.com/home/

The magazine.

Very Rough Costs of approx 1.5 kW systems installed:

Grid Tie system; 8-11 $/Watt

Grid-tie with tracker; 9-13 $/Watt

Grid-tie with battaries; 10-16$/Watt

Grid-tie with battaries and tracker; 13 - 17 $/Watt

Stand alone -off grid fixed; 13-17 $/Watt

(Installation included above approx 1.5$/Watt)

Upcoming seminars

March 17 Allen Co Library on Residential Wind energy systems

and The Indiana Building Green Symposium in Indy March 12-13
The Wisc Energy Fair June 19-21

more green links:

http://www.usgbc.org/ &

http://www.usgbc-in.org/

http://www.agreenerindiana.com/

sall4now

Creating New View Types in Revit

AECbytes has a new how2 for Creating New View Types in Revit

Reboot - Begin again

Ok It's been quite awhile since I started or added anything here. Shortly after beginning this blog I was downsized from the position where I was using ADT and designing a BIM implementation for a standard design build pallet of parts. For about a year I wandered in Bentley wasteland before coming back to the Autodesk universe. Now as I begin to revit I'll keep my references and notes organized here on the blog.

I just flew in from Vegas and ....
AU was about a 7 a few very helpful and informative classes and few really worthless and most half helpful. As the class handouts become available I'll organize and post the keypoints.

tetradecagon

Oh yea, its a tetradecagon being a 14 sided figure with a steep roof, and zero waste when ciut grom 4 x 8 sheets.

video post hexadecagonyurt

So you can see Vnay Gupta's Hexayurt Project here and here. He developed a refugee shelter that can be built for about 200 dollars. When waldopaper turned me on to it I started thinking about 4 x 8 sheets, steep roofs for snow and a shelter in the North woods. This is the second iteration. The goal over the next 12 months will be to design and prototype a permanent (such as anything is) shelter for the north woods. fully energy self-suficient constructed & outfitted for under 2000 dollars. The survival shack for what some see as the coming collaose of western civilization. It could also just be the answer for retirement on 2 grand provided I got a place to put it.

Storefront dentist in Fort Wayne 

dcole design

First post beginning the blog 12/30/05