Refreshing Opportunities

Posted on | August 29, 2010 | No Comments

by Ted Cheecharoen, Colleen Heine, Ken Holmes, and Yahayra Rosario-Cora

(AKA Team Strippers)

About a month ago, during our conversation with a landscaping professional, she referred to Whitemarsh Plaza as a “lifeless” place; at the beginning of all of this, we would have agreed. On the first visit of the SCAD Sustainable Practices in Design class to survey the site at Whitemarsh Plaza, we were quite critical of the condition of the strip mall and wondered why on earth we would put our energy into designing an outdoor eating area and other sustainable solutions for this place.

Inspire—from the Latin root insprirare—means “to breathe life into.” In the ten weeks since our first visit to Whitemarsh Plaza, the place has come to life. And while we know we helped inspire some of this new life, Whitemarsh Plaza has also inspired us.

Throughout our process of speaking with tenants about the project, we watched them open up before our eyes. Brand new relationships were born as we discussed their needs, their vision (and, often, ate their pizza, their salad, or their barbecue). We observed as their relationships with other tenants began to bloom into something new, as the nature of their conversations shifted from the present to the possibilities. As our team of four individuals worked through ideas, successes, and conflicts together, and adapted to each other and the changing environment, the team became a life form in itself that had never existed before.

As the project ideas began taking shape, ranging from energy-saving green roofs to stormwater mitigating bioswales to composting and recycling initiatives, we brought a host of local professionals to the table. We were inspired again and again by their enthusiasm and willingness to be a part of the project. A network—a living system—was forming as more people were getting involved to bring the ideas to life.

Our ten-week commitment to Whitemarsh Plaza culminated with an event that was undeniably inspiring. The event was held in one of the vacant units at the strip mall. With its worn carpet, peeling paint, and the odor of a place that’s been locked up for a while, the class was nervous that the space wouldn’t lend itself to the kind of social event we had in mind. But as the room filled with our quarter’s work and with hundreds of people that were excited about it, the place lit up and took on an entirely new personality. To transformations!

Despite having only a short time to get the word out, news of the event spread through the community like wildfire. In the days leading up to it, Savannah was abuzz about Whitemarsh Plaza. People from all walks of life came out for the event. Some came out of curiosity. Some came because they have a professional stake in some of our ideas. And some came for the free barbecue. Regardless, with one look around, it was evident that a new community had emerged—a community that was ready to band together for sustainable action. A community full of life!

How Can We Truly Measure the Life of a Tree?

Posted on | August 25, 2010 | No Comments

By Erin Fenley

In 2004 the oldest living tree was found in Sweden, a scrawny spruce like what most of us picture when we think of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree. However, the trunk isn’t the ancient part, it’s the root system that’s outlived the last ice age and grown to be 9,550 years old. Radio carbon dating was used to determine its age.

More so than roots or radio carbon dating, I usually think of counting the rings to know the age of a tree. I picture Kim Novak in Hitchcock’s Vertigo melodramatically pointing to the rings of a majestic redwood and saying, “Here I was born and here I died. It was only a moment. You took no notice”.

That scene has always haunted me, I felt what she was saying. The trees have seen so much. In a 2003 interview with Novak she said of the filming of the scene, “Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It’s like you’re touching the essence, the very substance of life.”

Deconstructing phase one at Strathmore Estates was like viewing a passage of time and history. I could readily see that reclaiming wood is another way of measuring the life of a tree. Although through this method you can not calculate the life and death of the tree, you can only envision its future. Adrian sitting in these trusses reminds me that these boards are still living, and now just moving on to their next job. Watching all of the boards we denailed begin to stack up, this vision of the future for the wood started to build in my mind. Soon they will hold a roof that shelters Girl Scouts at camp making all new memories, creating an all new history.

Through roots, radio carbon dating, and rings we can measure the awe-inspiring time that many trees grace the Earth. It can make us humans feel small. Through reclaiming we can have a sense of the higher purpose of the life of a tree and help it to continue its legacy.

Opening the Door to a Festival of Opportunities

Posted on | August 18, 2010 | No Comments

By Scott Boylston

Almost 10 weeks ago, a graduate Sustainable Practices in Design class at SCAD visited a generic strip mall on Whitemarsh Island. We went to visit Wendy Armstrong of Thrive Take Out Cafe to talk about the possibility of creating an outdoor eating area made from building materials reclaimed from Savannah Gardens. You could say that conversation…and those that followed it…wandered a bit.

On Tuesday, August 24th, from 3-7pm, the class will open up the doors to a vacant store in the strip mall for the tenants and the public to come see what they’ve come up with.

Location: Whitemarsh Plaza, 4700-B Highway 80 East

As we discussed in an earlier post, we see the advocacy for the repurposing of reclaimed materials not solely as an opportunity for material re-use, but as an opportunity to broaden the discussion–and the possibilities–to encompass a wider realm of sustainable practices.

The 4-hour event is the result of intensive interaction between students and business owners, employees, and customers of Whitemarsh Plaza, coupled with consultations with regional experts in renewable energy, energy efficiency, organic farming, and green landscaping, and meetings with local planning agencies.  The plaza management has provided 2,000 sq. ft. of retail space for the event, which will include video, conceptual drawings, and numerous opportunities for those attending to collaboratively contribute to the project’s ongoing development.

Designed as a celebration of green business solutions, the event will feature food and refreshments from 3 plaza tenants, along with live music, and guest visits from local organic farmers. We’ve met a lot of good people and new friends along this journey, and we’re thrilled to be holding a festival that celebrates the amazing opportunities that exist in nurturing a sustainable community.

A Reflection on the Girl Scouts Harvest Day

Posted on | August 16, 2010 | No Comments

By Charisse Bennett
I was always a very imaginative child. I could create entire worlds in my mind and interact with them through objects that I would envision as something else. Clumps of grass became tree canopies for the smallest of characters. Discarded wood offcuts became an entire city of skyscrapers. Boxes became elaborate houses for dolls and paper… paper has always been the most versatile material in my life.

I never grew out of this imagination; it simply began to evolve into something more based in practicality. I always see objects and materials as having another purpose and use. Throwing things away has always been a battle for me. The process of cleaning out a closet can take me twice as long as anyone else. I have the endless desire to find a new life for everything. A lot of times I succeed and actually complete the project. However, the projects and ideas just keep piling up waiting for the attention and time necessary.

The philosophy of Emergent Structures aligns amazingly well with the way I’ve always lived my life. I have never understood how people couldn’t see beauty and purpose in every object. Spending time on the site my mind was just spinning with all the ideas possible from all the material available. I love that through the process of seeing the wood boards pile up other people finally started to see the possibilities as well. Showing leads to believing.

But it shouldn’t be just about the wood boards. Society, as a whole, needs to learn to work with what is already in existence. The current belief is starting from scratch is the best way to start any project (buildings, interiors, furniture, etc.), but what if more people see the creative possibilities of reusing old doors, windows, cabinets? Is it just a matter of showing the different possibilities or do we need to re‐learn the value of objects?

These are the materials I chose to take with me. I would have taken more if I had time and space to dedicate to the many ideas that came to mind. The project I am completing with these is actually rather simple and it has been on my to do list for some time, but when I saw these cabinet doors I knew instantly they were perfect. An instant frame for my bathroom mirrors and an extra piece of wood creates a simple shelf. To me it isn’t even that creative, but then I remember others would never look beyond these items as trash.

Hot Times with the Girl Scouts

Posted on | July 25, 2010 | 3 Comments

By Scott Boylston

We have a whole lot of numbers to share with you about the amount of materials that we helped the Girl Scouts harvest over the weekend from a site otherwise scheduled for the landfill, but we’ll start here:

Day One of the Girl Scouts Volunteer Building Material Harvest:
95º, one short of the record high for that day in Savannah

Day Two of the Girl Scouts Volunteer Building Material Harvest: 93º

Day Three of the Girl Scouts Volunteer Building Material Harvest:
98º, three degrees higher than the record high for that day in Savannah

Heat index for the last three days was between 105º and 118º. Despite that, over 30 volunteers, including graduate students form the Design for Sustainability program at SCAD, and Lightnin’ Construction’s volunteer crew from Chattanooga, Tennessee, contributed hundreds of hours to deconstruct 2 buildings on the site of Savannah Gardens.

Four Emergent Structures board members brought with them volunteer crews, heavy machinery, supplies, fuel, and a whole lot of energy and expertise. Even with a pretty clear understanding of what they were made of, we were continually surprised at the quantity and quality of the yield.

Between the 2 buildings we collected 62 A-frames, only 2 of which were damaged during the harvest, and 1 of those is an easy fix. We’ll present more information on these soon.

The roof decking is 1 inch think, comprised of 4 foot panels. There were several widths used on these buildings. We’ve completely denailed the decking from one building with the results seen below. And this has resulted in 1,200 square feet of reusable material! Broken pieces are NOT included in this estimate.

The roofing of the second building wasn’t stripped until this morning (Sunday, July 25), so there is still some dismantling and denailing that has to be done, but there is at least another 1,200 square feet of usable material from this second duplex.

We spent plenty of time determining average times for the denailing process. The roofing nails were often more difficult to remove, but the average time was still pretty low: 1 square foot, on average, took 1 minute to denail.

The brick count is not yet done, but we also recorded average times for the removal of mortar from the bricks. There were an equal number of light-mortar and heavy-mortar bricks, with the light-mortar bricks taking 30 seconds and the heavy-mortar bricks taking 1:40 seconds. Despite some frequently expressed concerns about the potential difficulty of removing mortar from these bricks, they were easy enough to be among the most coveted jobs during the sweltering days: sitting in the shade, gently tapping away.

A huge surprise was the original red oak flooring that’s still intact under layers of linoleum, and other flooring that popped up without damage with the help of a Lull donated over the weekend by ABC Roofing. In the past we had determined that there were more kinds of floor covering than we could count; linoleum, oak, maple, etc. No one expected that the original floor, never removed, would be oak: Not for ‘temporary’ housing for shipbuilders; not for shipbuilders. But the evidence is mounting that there is oak flooring safely secured to the original subflooring of all units.

One of the first things Emergent Structures’ board member and SCAD Interior Design professor Kathy Fritz had her student team do, waaaaaaaay back in October 2009, a full month before our first harvest, was to create detailed floor plans of the single units (seen below), and using this as a tool to measure the red oak flooring that was harvested over the weekend, we’re looking at about 350 square feet of it, and that’s simply because we did not finish that part of the harvest (that will occur, in a very scaled back manner, over the next few days). Remember that there are about 200 of these buildings still standing…for now…

Despite the record temperatures, the air wasn’t half as hot as the volunteers that tore up this place. More pictures here, at Savannah Morning News.

THANK YOU:

ABC ROOFING, GUERRY LUMBER, JT TURNER CONSTRUCTION, LIGHTNIN’ CONSTRUCTION, RK CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, SCAD DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY and USGBC GEORGIA!!

We will have updates in the days to come, but Zowie, what a harvest!

Been Busy: Initiative 4

Posted on | July 21, 2010 | No Comments

By Scott Boylston

Two buildings on the site of Savannah Gardens will give way this weekend to the whim of Girl Scouts. The reclaimed materials will be used for an eco-camp on Rose Dhu Island, a magnificent piece of land surrounded by meandering rivers. The eco-camp is intended to enhance girls’ knowledge of and appreciation for the environment as part of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. The construction of the eco-camp is intended to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Girls Scouts of the U.S.A. in 2012.

The deconstruction and harvesting process will be filmed and used as a learning tool to further the construction and demolition industry’s ability to effectively recover valuable building materials from demolition sites.

Local companies Guerry Lumber and ABC Roofing are donating the use of heavy machinery for the project, and members of the Savannah Chapter of the US Green Building Council will volunteer their time and expertise. Mark Fitzpatrick, Preservation Director of JT Turner, and board member of USGBC Savannah and Emergent Structures, will lead the effort. Ramsey Khalidi of RK Construction and Southern Pine Company will continue to provide expertise for the deconstruction. Lightnin’ Construction Company will also be bringing a volunteer construction crew from of Chattanooga, Tennessee to work on the deconstruction.

The eco-camp is a vision of Nina Smith, Property Manager for Girls Scouts of Historic Georgia. Its design will be the focus of the annual American Institute of Architects (AIA) – Georgia Legacy Charette, to be held during the AIA Georgia annual conference in Savannah from September 30th to October 3rd (Waves of Change: Change the Environment, Change the Profession). USGBC Georgia will continue to participate in the facilitation of the eco-camp project, which will seek LEED certification.

Been Busy: Initiative 3

Posted on | July 18, 2010 | No Comments

By Scott Boylston

INITIATIVE THREE :: Outdoor Eating Area

Wendy Armstrong, owner of Thrive Carry Out Cafe , expressed interest in creating an outdoor eating area for Whitemarsh Plaza, a nondescript commercial mall on one of the islands east of Savannah, and only about 4 miles from Savannah Gardens. Thrive is Savannah’s first Green Certified Restaurant, and Wendy is as a staunch and energetic a green advocate as any. Through her outreach to USGBC Savannah and a discussion she had with a SCAD Furniture Design student, we came to learn she was interested in creating the outdoor eating area from reclaimed Savannah Gardens lumber.

We have since embarked on a plan to provide all tenants of Whitemarsh Plaza the opportunity to participate in the design of this outdoor eating area. Through a comprehensive interview process, already underway, and a one-day design charette, all tenants will have their voices heard.

Thinking big is important, of course, so the notion of a small outdoor eating area has blossomed into a far more ambitious plan of sharing Wendy’s vision of a sustainable business with the rest of the commercial plaza, and encouraging all business owners, employees and customers to join in. A graduate Sustainable Practices in Design class is hard at work, using their 10 week quarter to establish a clear vision that can be delivered to business owners, property managers, sustainability consultants, and even other classes.

We see this as an extraordinary opportunity. The project’s aim of introducing an array of sustainable practices and features to a population that is either unaware, disinterested or resistant to sustainability has the potential to dramatically alter perceptions. There is much to be said for further greening an already green venue, of course, but doing so doesn’t change many opinions, does it?

Engaging populations that have historically been skeptical of the green movement in a meaningful fashion, on the other hand, could be a catalyst for significant shifts in public perception. Demonstrating the ethical, pragmatic, moneysaving and community-building aspects of sustainable design in a visible fashion has the potential to hasten our cultural shift toward more truly sustainable behavior.

Interviews and conversations with tenants and customers will continue for a few more weeks, as will an analysis of opportunities and challenges. Engaging the larger system, we have reached out to metropolitan planning officials, county agencies and officials, as well as renewable energy suppliers, energy efficiency experts and greenroof experts. We’ve invited other non-profits like the Savannah Bicycle Campaign and the Savannah Tree Foundation to bring their insights, resources and energy to the table.

We are developing proposals that include greenroofing, bike amenities, bike incentive programs for employees, recycling incentive programs, green cleaning supplies, green business supplies, renewable energy, energy efficiency, rain water catchment, and more.  With Thrive already tending a food garden at nearby Oatland Island Wildlife Center, the class is also looking to deepen this connection, and nurture collaborations with several nearby public schools.

We will keep you updated on this fast moving project.

Been Busy: Initiative 2

Posted on | July 17, 2010 | 1 Comment

By Scott Boylston

The first law of thermodynamics is founded on the observation that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed; human energy certainly fits within that framework. So, as the energy dedicated to developing Emergent Structures projects and collaborations increases, the energy dedicated to blog writing (blogergy?) has a tendency to wane.

The last month has seen many developments for Emergent Structures, and there are several forthcoming posts that will present educational and industry outreach projects that have already been designed, not to mention notice of our incorporation as a non-proft entity. But before we get to them, we just want to supply an update on some of the actual reclamation initiatives taking place. The chart in our last post has provided an informative roadmap. So, over the next few days (yes, we’ll post more than once in a week!) we’ll describe some of the recent developments by using that graphic as an aid. We’ll begin with Initiative 2:

INITIATIVE TWO: Savannah Gardens Redevelopment
NorSouth Construction, the General Contractor for Phase One redevelopment, has embraced their role as cutting edge reclamation advocates, and since initiating a relationship with them this past winter,  we’ve been constantly impressed by their dedication to increasing reclamation yields. McLendon Enterprise has won the demo bid, and also seem eager to participate in our reclamation efforts. There were five areas we identified for potential on-site repurposing; studs to trusses; please curb your porch; bricks; wallcaps; and tubs of aggregate. Below are updates on each of these.

STUDS TO TRUSSES is the brainchild of Brian Quigley, the NorSouth project manager for Phase One. The idea is to repurpose reclaimed studs from the old buildings for new floor trusses in Phase One that will be manufactured less than 60 miles away from Savannah. The alternative bid for the demolition of these first 39 buildings includes a clause requiring 9,000 studs to be reclaimed and hauled to a work space for denailing, at which point they will be hauled to the truss manufacturer. This reclamation process will be occurring in some time August, and we’ll be sure to share photographs and insights. We will engage several organizations for this effort, and use it as a learning opportunity for creating more efficient methods, and as a training opportunity for green job initiatives.

Because we have planned from the beginning to use Savannah Gardens as a model to learn by, we’re doing something that many designers find frightening:

we’re using math.

For instance, it takes about 40,640 BTU to manufacture one new stud. Repurposing 9,000 studs from Phase One effectively eliminates the need to manufacture 9,000 new studs, and the energy required to manufacture 9,000 new studs is approximately 107,198 kW h, which translates (using US EPA numbers) to 166,157 lbs of carbon dioxide.

That means this first entry under Initiative Two will reduce carbon emissions by approximately 75 metric tons.

Now, we know a more accurate estimate will be forthcoming when we can assess just how many trusses result from this effort, then estimate the energy needed to make a new truss minus the energy required to manufacture the repurposed studs into the trusses. But, for the time being, we estimate that anywhere between 50 and 75 metric tons of carbon emissions will be eliminated from Phase One construction through this one measure.

PLEASE CURB YOUR PORCH

Mike Hughes, project manager for Thomas & Hutton Engineering, has also been a big supporter of our efforts from the very beginning. Immediately after a presentation that SCAD Design for Sustainability students made this past winter on innovative re-use opportunities at Savannah Gardens, Mike initiated the idea of repurposing the large cement slabs that comprise the old porches on site for use as parking lot curbs in the new development. This, of course, is a big winner for everyone due to the sheer weight of these objects, and the fuel that would otherwise be required to haul them to a landfill, or the energy that would be required to crush them on site for aggregate coupled with the energy required to manufacture and haul new curbing. While we have not done the numbers on this part of the project yet, we will be calculating the fuel, cost and emissions savings as it develops.

BRICKS (sorry, no catchy name for this one yet)
As you can see from our past efforts, there are plenty of bricks on site, but the time required to prepare them for immediate re-use in Phase One cannot accommodate the developer’s schedule. So, bricks that have been reclaimed from other local projects will be used, while the Savannah Garden bricks will be stored so that the mortar can be removed at a more forgiving pace, and reused at a later date. We intend to use the process of preparing the bricks for reuse as an educational and green jobs training opportunity.

This highlights the importance of having a dedicated reclamation expert available within the region, and we are fortunate to have one such expert on the Emergent Structures board of directors; Ramsey Khalidi of RK Construction and Southern Pine Co. Ramsey will be providing 225,000 reclaimed bricks for NorSouth’s Phase One construction.

By eliminating the demand for 225,000 new bricks the carbon footprint of Phase One will be reduced by 32 metric tons (that’s in addition to the 75 metric tons saved by the Studs to Trusses project above). Here’s how we arrived at that number: 225,000 bricks is equal to about 737 US tons of brick total. Multiple that by 2,640,000 BTU (energy required to manufacture a singe ton of bricks of this size), and you get 1,945,680,000 BTU.

If 1 kW h is equivalent to 3412 BTU, there is a reduction of 570,246 kW h of energy. As far as greenhouse gases goes: .0434 metric tons of carbon are released for every ton of brick, and that means that 31.98 metric tons of carbon would be released if you were to make 225,000 bricks for Savannah Gardens instead of using reclaimed brick.

WALLCAPS AND TUBS OF AGGREGATE

Yeah, yeah, we’re still working on those. They’re likely to happen since they’re relatively less complicated than the ones we’ve just written about. And because they’re easier to manage, frankly, we’ll get to them when it’s time to get to them.

So, there’s the update on Initiative Two. Come visit tomorrow for an update on Initiative 3….no, really…tomorrow.

In the Zone

Posted on | June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment

By Scott Boylston

We’re looking forward to our summer.

The old saying goes, you get what you ask for, and yes, we most definitely have. We have complexity, oh yes we do. But along with the complexity—along with this wild collaborative network we’ve nurtured—we have excitement, and meaning, and passionate interest from those throughout the ever-expanding network.

The name of the Emergent Structures project stems from Fritjof Capra’s description of emergent structures in his book The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living. This particular passage is especially inspiring to us :

“Throughout the living world, the creativity of life expresses itself through the process of emergence. The structures that are created in this process—the biological structures of living organisms as well as social structures in human communities—may appropriately be called emergent structures…”

“Designed structures provide stability. Emergent structures, on the other hand, provide novelty, creativity, and flexibility. They are adaptive, capable of changing and evolving. In today’s complex business environment, purely designed structures do not have the necessary responsiveness and learning capability…We need both. In every human organization there is a tension between its designed structures, which embody relationships of power, and its emergent structures, which represent the organization’s aliveness and creativity.”

So, the messiness that is represented in the above diagram is not only welcome; it is the very point of the project, and we can only hope to adapt to the impulses of the scenarios we’ve set in motion. Consider this diagram a little bit of a tease: it’s not intended to give you all the details, only to give you a sense of the breadth of opportunity before us; upon us.

Each of the initiatives is presently underway, although some are progressing faster than others, and all of them are dynamic in nature. Not every partner is represented here, and not every listing of partnerships is secured—there are a few that represent our desire and intention more than they represent the present collaborative mix.

Time lines for each of these also vary. There are some that require short-term collaboration and should be done by the end of summer; some that will take much longer in the development phase and will have longer lasting, ongoing impacts; some that will occur later, but when they occur they will occur quickly; and some that will run consecutively with others.

Stay tuned for more detailed descriptions of each project.

Exclaim your Reclaim, Case Study 1

Posted on | May 27, 2010 | No Comments

As a part of our advocacy for increasing the awareness and the level of material reclamation, we’ve created our “Exclaim Your Reclaim” campaign. We will feature case studies of creative re-use, and include as much detail as possible regarding the process and practicalities, the green jobs created, the amount of new materials not used, and the heritage of the materials—the family tree, if you will, of the wood. We invite you to contact us if you have a compelling story that we can help you tell.

By Scott Boylston

Before the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, before Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp, even before the gunfight at the OK Corral, a tree was cut down in Savannah. With the aid of a mule, a barge, a pulley system and a heavy lead weight, that tree was then driven 35 feet into the mud along the southern bank of the Savannah River, just east of downtown Savannah.

In 2008, that piling, along with at least 40 others, was pulled from the Savannah River muck to make way for the 2,000 foot extension of the riverwalk. No mules were needed this time, not unless you account for the stubborn resolve in the pursuit of turning that 140-year old piece of lumber into the planter you see here.

The planter, located at 427 East York Street, in downtown Savannah’s historic district and approved by the Historic Board of Review, was the brainchild of Patrick Shay, President of Gunn Meyerhoff Shay Architects, and Chatham County Commissioner.

To put it simply, this new planter is old.

But what are the details of this renewal; this transformative journey? According to Ramsey Khalidi of Southern Pine Co., who is a board member of Emergent Structures and has long been a leader in the reclamation movement in Savannah,  the planter was made from about 3 piling ‘drops,’ that is the remaining 4-6’ sections of 3 pilings after the rest of them had been cut to create flooring.

A tree cut down 140 years ago that’s been turned into an urban garden planter ranks pretty high as an expression of sustainable thinking. While it’s not possible to quantify every benefit of reclaiming materials for re-use, the construction of this planter put three people to work for a full week; one skilled laborer, and 2 semi-skilled laborers. And this doesn’t account for the initial labor required to get the wood from the riverbed to the Southern Pine Company’s mill, or the re-purposing of the embodied energy of the materials.

The new 20′ x 4′ urban garden is chock full of flowers, edibles and herbs. Talk about resource productivity!

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