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F irst, full disclosure, I have never been a “climate change” advocate. I can accept the fact that our climate does change or is changing, but I’ve never been a strong believer that we are causing the changes. However, my perspective changed recently due to my active role as a design professional. A change in attitude Sustainable design is becoming a must, but you need to drill down to the roots of every project to get the most out of the process.
Joseph Viscuso GUEST SPEAKER
Here at Pennoni, we are making a strong push to have our staff become Envision Sustainability Professional certified. I decided that being part of our leadership team meant that I should lead by example and take the course to pass the exam and obtain my certification. I accomplished this goal in February, leading me to this – the certification process caused me to think differently in my personal approach to projects and how much more we need to do as engineers, architects, and scientists to do our part to protect the environment. Envision teaches us to drill down on every project and look at the following criteria:
❚ ❚ Quality of life ❚ ❚ Leadership ❚ ❚ Resource allocation ❚ ❚ Natural world ❚ ❚ Climate and risk
Each of these criteria have many subsets of factors that need to be considered as part of our design. Each of these factors are then evaluated in terms of how we can improve upon them, moving from conventional design practices to hierarchies of
See JOSEPH VISCUSO, page 8
THE ZWEIG LETTER October 30, 2017, ISSUE 1222
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