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Energy Codes 2008 Buildings Tours
July 22, 2008
Participants in the Buildings Tours for Energy Codes 2008 will visit the following sites:
Wellstone - Phase III
The Wellstone Phase III of the Franklin-Portland Gateway project features 49 units of new mixed-income housing (37 units affordable to families with incomes at or below 60% area median income) in Minneapolis. The Wellstone features an array of green and sustainable features for the benefit of residents and the community.
Tour Leads: Representatives of Hope Community and Watson Forsberg Company, General Contractors
Hosted by: Hope Community
www.hope-community.org/
Ripley Gardens
A redevelopment of the historic Ripley Memorial Hospital, Ripley Gardens is a mixed-income development providing rental and home ownership opportunities for households at very-low, low, and moderate-income levels. The project is re-using three existing historic buildings and constructing three new buildings to provide a range of housing types for a mix of incomes. Underground parking with the help of LCDA funds, will enable more housing and open space opportunities.
Tour Lead: Matthew Hendrics
Hosted by: Aeon
www.aeonhomes.com/ripley-gardens.html
Minneapolis Public Library
Designed by world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli, the 353,000-square-foot building features an eye-catching canopy roof that projects over the Hennepin and Nicollet entrance. A combination of transparent and translucent glass with seasonal Minnesota imagery such as water, snow, trees, and prairie grass; an 18,560-square-foot "green" roof planted with low-growing, sun- and drought-resistant ground cover; and 140,000 square feet of underground parking–a great example of 30% better than code. The Architectural Alliance was the local architecture design team for the project.
Tour Leads: Walter Gegner,Hennepin County Library System, Nina Ebbighausen, Architectural Alliance, Jim Art, Ericksen Ellison Associates
Hosted by: Architectural Alliance
www.archalliance.com/
The Winnepeg
The Winnipeg is a mixed-use development consisting of 56 units of workforce rental housing and 6,000 square feet of commercial space to be built on the corner of Rice Street and Winnipeg Avenue in St. Paul. Sparc and co-developer Legacy Management and Development Co. broke ground last winter. Planned by Sparc, the neighborhood community development corporation, to anchor the revitalization of the ISP target area, the Winnipeg is distinguished by its extensive use of "green" design features. Expected to serve those who currently live and work in the area, The Winnipeg is scheduled to open for occupancy in early 2009.
Tour Lead: Seth Benziger
Hosted by: SPARC
www.sparcweb.org/
St. Paul District Energy Plant
Red Hot, Cool & Green - District Energy St. Paul owns the largest hot water district heating system in North America in addition to a large chilled water cooling system. District Energy brings "green energy" to downtown St. Paul buildings from a new combined heat and power plant that is fueled by clean, renewable wood waste.
District Energy: Overview by Mike Burns, V.P. of Production-Operations
Tour Guides: Dave Roske-Groth, Maintenance Supervisor; Pete Lujan, Plant Superintendant; Doug Audette, Production Manager
Hosted by: District Energy
www.ever-greenenergy.com/
St. Paul City Hall/Ramsey County Court House
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the onyx Indian statue and the rest of the incredible building. This huge, brooding Indian, towering in 55 tons of cream-white Mexican onyx 36 feet above a slowly rotating pedestal in the black marble concourse in St. Paul's City Hall. One great hand holds the Pipe of Peace. The other is raised in a vaguely benedictory gesture over some little chiefs from whose council fire the mighty figure seemed to rise. This boldly romantic Indian God of Peace had been made for St. Paul by Sweden's great, famed Sculptor Carl Emil Andersson Milles, whose international reputation overawed literal-minded objectors to his scheme. The idea had come to Sculptor Milles before the St. Paul commission, when he was watching a New Year's Eve celebration in which 3,000 Oklahoma Indians quietly listened while an old Chief spoke of peace with a "deep, masculine feeling of brotherhood and understanding."
Buildings Tours lunch sponsored by Xcel Energy, Inc.