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The journey and the destination
Boston, Greenbuild 2008Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. - Arthur AsheWay back in the mid-1990’s, I first started thinking about creating my...
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Save Trico
BASF ad seen at Greenbuild 2011.The historic Trico Plant #1, located on the edge of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, has been recommended for designation as a local landmark. It's already on the...
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Continuing education
I passed the CSI Certified Construction Specifier (CCS) exam last week, and I was joking on Facebook that I now had more letters after my name than init. Even including my married name. It’s true –...
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Becoming a “Woman-Owned" Firm
The most popular question I’ve had so far as a new business owner is: When will you be WBE-certified?Renovation of Buffalo's spectacular Hotel Lafayette*. I have very specialized expertise and over...
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Sustainability education for Architects
Somewhere in the neighbourhood of 185,000 peoplehave become LEED-accredited (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) professionals – aka LEED AP’s - over the past decade. They come from all...
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An organizational chart for one
Most of my time over the past month has been spent reading, analyzing, and responding to RFPs and RFQs. As a new firm, the most important thing I can do is get my company name “out there”, even if the...
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Green renaissance in a rust belt city
One year ago, I got up in front of a roomful of architects in my hometown of St. John's, Newfoundland and told them all about my adopted city of Buffalo, New York. It was the Royal Architectural...
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Outsourcing Sustainable Design
Many clients look for LEED-experienced firms. Think you might need a full-time sustainability director or coordinator for your office, but can't afford to hire one? Have better things for your...
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We’re still having this conversation…
The decision by the current Pritzker Prize jury not to amend the decision of the 1991 jury was announced yesterday. I was, like many of my colleagues, disheartened but not surprised by the response....
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Making a list
I use ColorNote on my phone, and I'm also test-driving Evernote.I love lists. I make them all the time. I have electronic ones on my phone, and paper ones in my sketchbook. I sometimes forget that I...
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Mackintosh's masterwork
I have never been there, but Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art is my favourite building. Ever. Anywhere. Most architects can point to a single structure as their biggest inspiration,...
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The journey and the destination
Boston, Greenbuild 2008Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. - Arthur AsheWay back in the mid-1990’s, I first started thinking about creating my...
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Save Trico
BASF ad seen at Greenbuild 2011.The historic Trico Plant #1, located on the edge of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, has been recommended for designation as a local landmark. It's already on the...
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Continuing education
I passed the CSI Certified Construction Specifier (CCS) exam last week, and I was joking on Facebook that I now had more letters after my name than init. Even including my married name. It’s true –...
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Business as usual
Creative use of lightbulbs...and recycled bottles, at Soho Burger Bar, Buffalo NYLightbulbs: the universal symbol for an idea, for clarity, for suddenly "getting it". Also a metaphor for not getting...
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Growing up and moving out...
Design Synergies turns 3 today - October 5th - and is finally moving out of the house. I have to admit that I have mixed emotions about it. There are a lot of good things about working from home,...
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