Big Green: Uses for used Bulletproof Windshields?

[dlombard at earthlink.net]

Hi Matt,

I saw a while ago a project in CA where the they used a windshield as an awning over an entry door. 

Regards,
Debra Lombard, LEED AP, EIT
 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt de la Houssaye <mdelaho at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Sep 10, 2007 4:24 PM
>To: JM <greenhornet at shoreham.net>, Big Green <biggreen at lists.biggreen.org>
>Subject: Big Green: Uses for used Bulletproof Windshields?
>
>Dear Big Green,
>
>Does anyone know what a potential re-use would be for
>bulletproof windshields? I'm thinking the construction
>industry might use this products "as is" if a creative
>re-use were found.
>
>Any thoughts? 
>
>best,
>
>Matt
>
>Matt de la Houssaye
>www.advancedrecyclingtechnology.com
>
>
>--- JM <greenhornet at shoreham.net> wrote:
>
>> Welcome to American privatization !
>> Public funding using private initiatives... but
>> wait.....
>> 
>> USGBC is a 501c3 non-profit organization
>>
>(http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1498&)
>> ...
>> so the private 'pig at the public trough' imagery
>> just doesn't fly.
>> 
>> This does look like a preemptive attack on USGBC,
>> which is growing  
>> into a real power now.... mmmm... perhaps this is
>> the issue...  
>> gaining control... power... or more explicitly
>> defusing power.
>> Green power.... Al Gore is involved here somewhere
>> isn't he?
>> This must be the real reason for public attacks...
>> someone is trying  
>> to limit political 'green' power by making up a
>> false issue rather  
>> than having a real discussion of the issues.
>> 
>> My LEED questions for discussion are....
>> Does the LEED program adequately address each of the
>> myriad  
>> environmental issues of the day?
>> If not... is planning and implementation for the
>> standards to evolve  
>> in place?
>> 
>> My USGBC questions are....
>> Is USGBC being altruistic and true to the LEED goals
>> in overall  
>> management of the Council as you experience
>> exponential growth?
>> Can you resist the heady taste of growing power?
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Jonathan M. Miller
>> FCSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP, AIA, NCARB
>> Green Architect & Specifier
>> 
>> 
>> ps:	Regarding added costs on the later post.  Davis
>> Langdon  
>> (Estimators / Quantity Surveyors) did a white paper
>> (revised 2007) on  
>> the costs of LEED that is freely available online.
>>
>http://www.davislangdon.com/USA/Research/ResearchFinder/2007-The-Cost-
>> 
>> of-Green-Revisited/
>> 	Conclusion was that the "cost per square foot for
>> buildings seeking  
>> LEED certification falls into the existing range of
>> costs for  
>> buildings of similar program type."
>> 	Any project cost premium is within standard choices
>> of building  
>> systems and materials to select.
>> 
>> >
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