Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Peter Chee
The Thinkspace main lobby desk has been built and installed. In addition to having a professional appearance we wanted our lobby to make a statement about sustainability. To gather ideas, we went to Ecohaus and looked at different types of materials and decided we wanted to showcase beautiful sustainable materials.
We used a gorgeous Vetrazzo recycled [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Peter Chee
For our commercial tenant improvement project we chose to go with a “green” carpet. The critical things to look for when picking a commercial grade environmentally sustainable carpet is 1) what is the carpet top made of; 2) what is the backing material made of; 3) what type of adhesives will be used.
Carpet Top: The [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Peter Chee
This weekend Seattle is hosting Green Festival 2008 at the Washington State Convention Center. According to the Seattle-PI, at least 20,000 and up to 30,000 people will attend this event this weekend. I took my family to the event on Saturday . The weather outside was about 80 degrees and it was probably the best [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Peter Chee
We have put a lot of focus on air quality for our executive office suites build-out. Early on in our design process we decided to use either a low or no-VOC paint. Yes, it’s good for the environment (reduces smog and ozone pollution) but even more important it is good for your health.
“VOCs” are Volatile [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Peter Chee
Tenant improvements can require a new company moving into an existing building to create a lot of demolition debris. In order to build out our Thinkspace executive office suites, 5.79 tons or 11,580 pounds of demolition debris was removed. The number of tons could have been much greater, but one of our goals was to [...]
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