Entries from March 2008 ↓

We received the letter from Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections that we had been waiting for since last week. At first glance, it was bad news as we were rejected for “over the counter” zoning approvals that we were hoping for. I sent a copy to Brian from ISA and he quickly returned an […]

Brian Phillips from Interface Studio Architects will be speaking this weekend (March 15th) at Habitat for Humanities 2nd Annual Green Building Conference on our 100K House project. Habitat’s focus this year is on a “Green Affordable Philadelphia.” Habitat puts on a great event with a lot of high quality speakers and workshops for both beginners […]

So I just returned from today’s LEED Design Charrette and everything went very well. The bottom line is that we found out that reaching Platinum is possible with our design, but we have a few issues to clarify and iron out. Rob from MaGrann was extremely knowledgeable and taught us all a lot about the […]

Today is a big day for the project as we are having our LEED Design Charrette. The very first category in the LEED for Homes rating system is “Integrated Project Planning.” We are required to conduct a preliminary rating with our LEED Provider in order to target the level we want to reach (Certified, Silver, […]

It took a day and a half, but our plans have now officially been submitted to the City of Philadelphia for zoning approval. We filed for an accelerated review of the plans in order to get an answer within 5 days so if all goes well we will have zoning approval for both homes from […]