Energy Star tax creditsI have a BS ED, which is a science that encompasses the junction between engineering and architecture. My expertise is in buildings and how they work. I focused all my career on design of the built environment and building systems. I was educated in energy conservation, [...]
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Noel Susskind, PE, LEED AP is an experienced mechanical engineer and building energy expert ready to
serve you. Commercial, government, educational and healthcare facilities are a focus.
He will:
Serve as a high level resource on the latest science and art of building, or introduce you to one. Knowledge includes minimizing building energy (carbon) footprint [...]
I am starting a new business with my wife, Wendy, rehabilitating distressed homes in northern Virginia. If you have an older home in the metro DC and NOVA region that needs some care, call me. We have not come up with a name for this effort yet.
LEED for Homes connects [...]
Learning about new software can be exciting and daunting all at once.
I am talking about the new and improved version of Autodesk Revit MEP that came out in April last year and was updated massively in the fall.
I am learning a lot from a variety of sources, among them, the Revit [...]
Having been laid off from my job earlier this month, and subsequently injuring my back, I have had time to re-evaluate this situation. I had an excellent position at TOLK engineers, but the construction business is falling down like it is 1932. So its tough, and time to get moving. [...]
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A new American president was sworn in today. Thank you Mr. Obama, for taking the job.
May your leadership find only the greatest success!
We have a lot of work to do, but we are ready, willing and able, sir!
As a young man, I became familiar with pollution first hand. I grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs. The air that came my way in South Jersey, downwind from the big factories in Philly, was obviously and visibly polluted throughout my childhood in the 1960s and early 70s. The creek near [...]
The use of the term “Green” as it applies to buildings has been increasing month after month, year after year. The same applies to so-called “sustainable”. But by what measure is any BUILDING green or sustainable?
Green and sustainable have been relatively underdeveloped concepts until the last 10 [...]
I started this blog in January 2007, as an outgrowth of my desire to write. I wanted to spend more time on my writing, but alas, I still had my day job to fall back on. Well, to make a long story short, I took a new day job in Virginia, so I [...]
Here is an observation on timing and preparation being so important to a useful charette. Charettes are good. It is not some fancy concept just because it came from France. But why are they not done more often? Maybe they are not well appreciated, understood or applied by most designers. They can be difficult to schedule, requiring many high level stakeholders to be present for hours. And many do not [...]
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