Cohousing-L Mailing List: 2003 Cohousing Conference

[The CoHousing Company (coho]

Dear Cohousing Professional and Community Members,

As most of you know, the 2003 Cohousing Conference in Boulder is just 4
weeks away. As part of this conference, Jim Leach (of Wonderland Hill
Development Company) and I are presenting a full-day workshop called
"Creating World Class Design and Construction."  Geared toward
professionals, this Friday, June 20 workshop will include slides, plans,
models, a tour of Prospect New Town, AND a world-class gourmet lunch.

The workshop is about value: How to get the most and pay the least.
It is about how to get the most in the context of quality environmental
design.


Topics include
 

? How to get custom quality and production prices
? How to keep it production in the design process
? How to keep it production in the construction phase
? How to keep it perceived as production in the bidding phase and keep the
value in
? The new look of Production Housing
? Where production begins
? Who has tweaked production and survived
? Why cohousing production needs to be different
? How to sneak groovy stuff into production
? Show us the value
? What cohousers want
? Efforts that make production possible in a custom world
? Efforts that make it worth it
? Will cohousers ever accept the roly-poly regular production beige look ,
if ever
? How to negotiate bids and when to push it and when to punt
? Who are our allies in producing high value buildings
? How not to trip up production construction.


"Creating World Class Design and Construction" features a personal tour
of Prospect New Town in Longmont, a New Urban neighborhood noted for its
extreme variety of architecture and cutting edge details.
 

Production Construction
There are few magic bullets.

So often it is thought that there must exist a new building technology that
will make housing cheap (straw bale, sips, or  similar) but for the most
part creating an economical, but functional and beautiful,  living
environment just takes a lot of small steps and the evaluation of new
possibilities--like modular--that add up to big savings and high quality.

The cohousing client is often the discerning client without a lot of cash.
Some think "what ia pain"; we think that the most fun part of the challenge
is to create a $200K cohousing unit that feels better than a $300K unit down
the street. A unit that costs less to maintain and puts more disposable
income in the client¹s pockets. So if your job  (your responsibility as a
professional) is to get cohousers into houses they want and like  -- houses
they can afford -- than you don¹t want to miss this critical workshop.

Cost for the workshop is $75 in addition to the Conference registration
fee, which starts at  $250 for members of Cohousing US (formerly TCN)
who register by May 9th.  Please go to  www.cohousing.org for details
and to take advantage of early bird registration. Questions? Please
email Annie at confmgr [at] aol.com.

So the conference is not sold out ­ and we really want you to get the
benefit of years of experience ­ so sign up and come have a good time and
learn a lot at the same time.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Conference.

Chuck Durrett

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