Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Peter Chee
On June 30, 2008, Thinkspace had it’s Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. Thinkspace broke new ground by being the first building in the Puget Sound Region to market pre-certified, “green” LEED-compliant executive office suites with a carbon neutral option. The 25,000 square feet of executive office suites is located at 8201 164th Avenue in downtown Redmond. According [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Peter Chee
Mary Decker, Reporter for The Redmond Reporter wrote an article in the June 14th newspaper about thinkspace. “Like many of his Sammamish neighbors, entrepreneur Peter Chee thought it would be wonderful to work at home. Instead, he felt isolated. He missed the atmosphere…: Here’s a link to the article.
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Peter Chee
A local Seattle company, Walk Score, has just launched a new service to calculate the walkability of your neighborhood. I don’t think I can better state what their service is so here’s a quote from their website: “We help people find houses and apartments in walkable neighborhoods. Walk Score shows you a map of what’s [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Peter Chee
I’ve focused a lot on energy conservation in the thinkspace blog, now it’s time to address water conservation. When setting goals for our project, I originally was thinking about how can I conserve the maximum amount of water in my project. According to various articles that I have read, toilets consume the most water in [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Peter Chee
I’ve finally got a little time to write about my office chair. While out shopping for new office furniture, I had my sights set on a Herman Miller Aeron. The same kind of chair that I used to sit on back when I was working for “the man”. I had been looking around for a long [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Peter Chee
The Eastside Business Journal published an article about thinkspace on May 22. The full article can be found here. Here are a few highligts from the article.
Thanks to thinkspace, almost any small start-up company can overcome daunting obstacles, costs and compliance issues to become a certified “green” business from day one.
“Many small businesses find it advantageous [...]
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Peter Chee
On page 7 of the May 23-29, 2008 edition of the Puget Sound Business Journal, Thinkspace is highlighted as a new Eastside executive office suite.
The PSBJ commercial real estate reporter Jeanne Lang Jones tells the story of Thinkspace how we are seeking LEED silver certification, how we used HEPA filters to control dust during demolition and how [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Peter Chee
Thinkspace offers big business benefits to companies of all sizes and operate their business with a small footprint. To us, a small footprint means operating your business in office space that was designed with sustainability in mind.
Your company name does not have to be “Dell, General Electric, Google, Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, Ford, Microsoft, or [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Peter Chee
Every private office has an occupancy sensor in our newly built out Thinkspace office. Our goal is to reduce energy consumption by more than 30% for the space that we occupy. We installed commercial light fixtures with higher performance ballast and lamps. That alone should help us get to the 30% energy savings. In addition [...]
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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 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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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Peter Chee
We have selected furniture for the Thinkspace office and the one piece that I’m most excited about is the Phillippe Starck designed Emeco stool. We have purchased these in bar stool height (14″ W x 14″ D x 30″) for the cyber cafe.
The stool is produced in the United States and is environmentally friendly. 80% [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2008 by Peter Chee
In addition to using HEPA air purifiers to maintain air quality during the demolition of the existing space, we also took a close look at the existing HVAC system. Inside the space we have existing VAV (variable air volume) boxes. VAV boxes are used to zone areas in large commercial buildings and also contribute significantly to the [...]
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