Cohousing-L Mailing List: EVC Wins Two Prestigious Awards; Community is on Fall Bus Tour

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Hello all --

Eastern Village Cohousing, Silver Spring, MD, has received notification that
it has been awarded LEED Silver rating by the U.S. Green Building Council.
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design.  EVC is the
FIRST cohousing community to receive this designation and one of only a very
few residential communities in the U.S. to be so rated.  A silver rating is
a very high bar to make.  A case study will be posted on the USGBC Website
and added to the U.S. Department of Energy¹s High Performance Buildings
Database.

http://www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/highperformance/case_studies/

"Environmental Design & Construction" awarded EVC its Multi-Use Residential
Excellence in Design Award for 2005.  According to Kara Strong, a green
architect who both worked on the project and lives in the community, the
cover article states that ³While all of the designers did an excellent job
of incorporating green materials into interior finishes, we gave priority to
projects that emphasized resource efficiency through siting, insulation,
glazing, major mechanicals, and water conservation measures. We also sought
to reward designs that were particularly integrated to local site and
climate, and that incorporated carefully considered living spaces designed
to increase human interaction with the natural environment.²

http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__Item/0,
4120,159914,00.html

If you are interested in seeing Eastern Village and five other cohousing
communities in the DC area, do plan to come on the Fall Cohousing Bus Tour,
Sat. Oct. 29th, sponsored by Mid Atlantic Cohousing.  Catch details on the
web at:  www.cohomac.org or register at:

http://www.cohousing.org/news/tours.html

click on "Washington, DC"

Congrats to all who made this happen.  (You can see the list at the end of
the EDC article cited above.)

Best --

Ann Zabaldo
MAC