Big Green: Uses for used Bulletproof Windshields?

[Mike O'Brien]

Hi, Matt--

Check out this building from the Rural Studio in Alabama:

http://cadc.auburn.edu/soa/rural%2Dstudio/projects_glasschapel.htm

Mike O'Brien




On Sep 10, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Matt de la Houssaye wrote:

> 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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