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ON THE MOVE SAM F. LICHENSTEIN NAMED PROJECT MANAGER AT ATWELL Consulting, engineering, and construction services firm Atwell, LLC announced that Sam Lichenstein has joined the firm as project manager, land solutions, power and energy. Based in San Antonio, his responsibilities will include market expansion, client development, and team management. Lichenstein will support wind energy and electrical transmission projects, and help grow the land solutions services nationally. Lichenstein is former owner of a Texas-based land services company, where he performed and managed mineral take-offs, leasehold reports, abstracts for title opinions, unit

mineral acres in West Texas, and performed due diligence or managed the due diligence of more than 1,000 miles of right of way for pipeline, electric line, and access. “Lichenstein’s management skills and experience in land solutions and lease negotiations, and his expertise in the oil and gas, and renewable energies markets are a great addition to our team,” said Atwell Vice President, Power and Energy Matthew Bissett. “He brings the industry knowledge, expertise, and responsiveness necessary to meet our clients’ needs and help expand our growing southwest market.”

designations, lease negotiations and amendments, curative work, surface ownership research, surface damage negotiations, easement negotiations, and negotiations of land purchases for oil and gas and the renewable energy industries. He has worked in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Lichenstein is a licensed Texas real estate agent, and a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen, PBLA, and the International Right of Way Association. Over the last three years, he performed due diligence and conducted lease negotiations for more than 30,000

When I built a house for myself in San Francisco in 2001, I set out to do it as sustainably as possible at that time. Every pound of construction waste was recycled through a local firm that carefully sorted and repurposed every scrap of waste. The exterior copper siding was made from 100 percent recycled material and, of course, could be reused if ever dismantled. I incorporated solar electrical generation and a number of other processes and systems to conserve energy or reduce or eliminate waste, using recycled wood products in much of the construction. I firmly believe we can continue to inhabit this planet for a far longer time than Stephen Hawking suggested recently: bit.ly/1uqUQyi. While several of his suggested reasons for having to vacate would be out of our control, such as an asteroid strike, much of it is coming from our own hands. It’s time for each of us in our own personal way, and through the businesses we’re a part of, to pursue the path of recycling each material that we mine or use from our planet. I previously cited an example we’re pursuing here in Reno. We’re building flat-deck parking structures that, upon the advent of autonomous, self-driving vehicles which will be prowling the streets instead of occupying a parking stall, could be repurposed as hydroponic gardens, utilizing recycled water from our on-site waste treatment plant and power from solar cells on the roof, to grow the produce needed for restaurants and residents in the district. No trucking or packaging required. I’m on a mission to spread the gospel. I want my grandchildren to have a future as generous in resources that I’ve had. And to have it without a finite end. ED FRIEDRICHS, FAIA, FIIDA, is a consultant with Zweig Group and the former CEO and president of Gensler . Contact him at efriedrichs@ zweiggroup.com. “I’m on a mission to spread the gospel. I want my grandchildren to have a future as generous in resources that I’ve had. And to have it without a finite end.”

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for transport along the way. Water is an even larger problem because of our inefficient use of this finite element in farming. An example from the TED talk: In California, we grow an enormous amount of alfalfa, one of the most water-intensive crops grown on earth today, which is then shipped to the Middle East and other parts of the world to feed animals. This is not very efficient when you consider that California is suffering from an ongoing draught. And, in fact, farm animals and livestock themselves are extremely resource-intensive and polluting, not just because of water consumption. Encouragingly, some manufacturers who rely on mined resources for production are taking up the recycling torch. Vehicle manufacturer BMW is one of them. Virtually every element of a BMW can be recycled at the end of its useful life. The materials are captured by type – glass, steel, aluminum, plastics, oil from shock absorbers, tires, etc. – to be reused in future manufacturing by themselves or by other manufacturers. “It’s time for each of us in our own personal way, and through the businesses we’re a part of, to pursue the path of recycling each material that we mine or use from our planet.” As architects, engineers, designers, developers, and building materials manufacturers, we can have a profound effect on the usage and preservation of precious natural resources. It takes awareness, ingenuity, vigilance, and holding each other accountable for stewardship in areas where we can make a difference. One of the most effective programs for recycling everything has been Interface, a carpet manufacturer which, through its CEO, set out to achieve a zero-waste, zero-emissions program when he had his “spear in the chest epiphany” about what his company was doing to the planet. Read more at: bit.ly/2hmBOYO

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