This month, Richard Renner will discuss environmentally responsible design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s seminar The Sustainable House: Designing Truly Green Homes .
This seminar, taught by nationally recognized architects and engineers, will explore the combination of timeless design methods and recent technological advances in achieving a truly green home for the future.
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The Home & Garden feature article in Sunday’s Portland Press Herald highlighted the LEED Platinum loft, designed by Richard Renner, where he and his wife live. The Portland office of RR|A is also located on the ground level of this renovated, historic building.
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Richard Renner will speak at the 2010 Better Building by Design Conference. He and Denuda Drozdowicz will present Road-Testing the Model, to compare actual energy performance to performance predicted by HERS and E-Quest energy models for residential buildings in Maine.
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Photograph by James R Salomon
The October 25 Boston Globe Sunday Magazine features the oceanfront kitchen of a house designed by RR|A and recently completed. Solar power, radiant floor heating, triple-glazed windows with UV coating, and solar-heated hot water are among many green elements in this five bedroom house, situated to maximize the incredible views of Maine’s coast.
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Construction has begun on the renovation and restoration of the historic Coggeshall Counting House to create new offices, meeting room, laboratory, and educational spaces for The Coalition for Buzzards Bay.
The building will serve as a model of environmentally responsible high-performance adaptive reuse and restoration.
RR|A Project Team: Richard Renner, Tom Delaney
Photograph by James R Salomon
The “Green Piece” in the September/October issue of Residential Architect focuses on the new Portland office of RR|A and loft of Richard Renner. The renovation and downtown live/work setting are integral to the green mission of the firm.
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The office will be open for First Friday this month, June 5th. Selected works by our friend Randy Regier will be on display, as well as photographs and models of our recent projects. Come and visit from 5-8 pm!
Photo by Randy Regier
The office will be open for First Friday next month, May 1st. Come and visit from 5-8 pm!
The site now features recently completed projects, news, and publications, as well as the current projects on our boards.
This article by Richard Renner appears in Maine Policy Review, Issue 17 Number 2, Fall/Winter 2008:
SIZE MATTERS: NOTES ON GREEN DESIGN PROCESS AND GOALS
“How many solar collectors will we have, and where will they go?”
“It will be green because we will have solar hot water.”
“I know that building is efficient because it has geo-thermal heat.”
I am an architect specializing in environmentally responsible, or green, design, and these are statements I often hear from clients or individuals interested in energy- and resource-efficient design. (Note that I avoid the over-used term “sustainable,” because so far, no, or at best, very little, current building construction is truly sustainable.) Since the construction and operation of buildings require a huge portion of our national and global energy budgets, the increasing interest in making buildings more efficient is encouraging. But focusing…
Portland, Maine—Richard Renner | Architects is pleased to announce that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded the loft at 6 South Street, Portland, Maine, with Platinum Certification in the LEED® for Homes Program. LEED-H, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Homes, is a national rating system that promotes the design and construction of high performance “green” homes. Platinum is the highest certification.
The two bedroom loft is located in a mixed-use urban neighborhood. It is part of a project that converted a derelict commercial building into a flexible, modern, and environmentally responsible live/work combination. The loft’s tightly organized plan accommodates multiple functions without compromising openness and long interior views. High levels of insulation and triple-glazed windows reduce energy use. Light tubes bring daylight into interior spaces. The residence also f…
Portland, Maine—Richard Renner Architects, in partnership with Wright-Ryan Construction, are pleased to announce that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded Platinum Certification in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) for Homes-Pilot Program to 10 Cranberry Ridge Road, Freeport, Maine. The house is the first in the Northeast to receive LEED-H platinum status and the third in the country. Platinum is the highest certification for the LEED-H rating system.
Created by the USGBC, LEED for Homes is a national rating system that promotes the design and construction of high performance “green” homes. Their definition states that; “A green home uses less energy, water, and natural resources; creates less waste; and is healthier and more comfortable for the occupants.” The LEED rating system allows buildings to gain points for excellence in attaining these environmental criteria.
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