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April 24 - 27, 2008
Green Building Tour

A tour of green buildings and alternative energy sites in Richland County was offered in conjunction with the Environmental Education Council of Ohio's annual conference, Thursday April 24th. The tour and green building professional issue forum featured Mohican School in the Out of Doors, Malabar Farm's Visitor Center, and the Gorman Nature Center. Active and passive solar, geothermal and wind systems will be on display, along with a green roof and composting toilets.

The LEED-Home project, a design-build partnership between
CGBF and a local high school, broke ground in December 2005.
The project is currently poised at Gold rating level with a
strong potential to be a LEED Platinum! At Platinum it will be
only the second home in the Country currently at this level.

The LEED-Home project, a design-build partnership between CGBF and a local high school, broke ground in December. The project is currently poised at Gold rating level with a strong potential to be a LEED Platinum! At Platinum it will be only the second home in the Country currently at this level.

• Background of project and current photos
• Media coverage (past)
• Progress (blog)
• What is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)?
• LEED initiatives around the country

CGBF is building a green cutting edge home in Columbus' first green residential development, Greenview Estates.

The project team, represented by Meera Parthasarathy and Kate Harkin, presented the project scope and goals at the US Green Building Council's Greenbuild in Chicago on November 5, 2007. The project was one of seven in the afternoon's charrette presentation and had a team of ten green residential experts from around the country brainstorming ideas for greening the CGBF project.

Agenda | Photos

Edison Materials Technology Center
1st Ohio Summit on Supply Chain Opportunities in Alternative Energy
June 19-20, 2007 at the National Composite Center, Dayton Ohio

CGBF Quarterly Brown Bag Lunch Program: 21 Feb. 2007
InView: Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Youth Development Center on OSU Campus.Bill McCleery, 4-H center's development officer, gave the project overview and status.

Green Affordable Housing Charrette!
9 am - 1 pm, Saturday, 10 February 2007
CGBF conducted a charrette to inform the design-build process for our second Green home to be built in fall 2007. The charette identified the project goals for the second build in terms of building design, technologies, materials, energy use and site design. Our eventual goal is to build a zero energy home and we would like to ramp up to this by incorporating cutting edge green design and technologies.

October 27, 2006 Annual Green Building Tour
CGBF and AIA Columbus COTE presented the annual green building tour on Friday, October 27th; participants toured the Green Visitor Center at Malabar Farm State Park and Licking County Joint Vocational School at Newark, Ohio.
photos of event

September 12, 2006

photos of 2006 Expo
Speaker info
photos of 2005 Expo

September 13, 2006
Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Workshop for Green Building Design
details

June 13th, 2006
Columbus Green Building Forum, Tues., June 13th at 12:00 p.m.; Presented by Lauren Kyser, Renewable Choice Energy

More info about renewable energy