HiVE Party: March 25!
The HiVE is holding a fund-raising party on Friday, March 25th! RSVP today while tickets last!
We are about to embark on one of the most ambitious experiments any of us has yet known: a collaborative chaos, a working man’s and women’s Walden. HiVE Vancouver will be a reality, and the coolest coworking space in the City will soon open its doors.
But, yea! That day has not yet arrived. And so we find ourselves in a strange vortex, where we have 9,000 square feet of unfinished office space to play in, but no office to speak of. Whatever will we do with all this space?
Have a party, of course! Friday, March 25th we’ll have a Warehouse Ball. Put on your very finest scrubs and come prepared to engage in a variety of activities you’ve never done in an office… and most likely never will again!
DJs:
- SOMA vs. elrizzy
- Leigh Christie
- Oker
- Saul Dusty
- GoreMay
and more!
`the Bees at HiVE Vancouver
www.hivevancouver.com
Recollective Teaches New UBC LEED Course
Brenda and Eesmyal teach new UBC Course on LEED-NC 2009 called “Building Green with LEED: LEED Canada for New Construction 2009″.
Gain in-depth familiarity with the LEED-NC 2009 Rating System in preparation for the Professional Accreditation Exam. Current LEED AP’s can complete all 36 LEED BD+C prescriptive continuing education requirements. Explore the synergies between green building strategies and implementation processes using a range of examples and case studies and practise using LEED Letter Templates and other tools to develop certification documentation.
Two Options:
April 4 – June 2, 2011 (weekly) – Robson Square, 800 Robson, Vancouver
July 11-15, 2011 (1-week intensive) – Robson Square, 800 Robson, Vancouver
Registration: http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/leed/
Next Recollecture: LEED Equivalency (Mar 11)
Recollective is planning to stir the pot around the issue of “LEED Equivalency” and you’re all invited to witness, heckle and throw tomatoes. What does LEED Equivalency really mean? Since there is no standard, every municipality and agency that claims Equivalency has a different interpretation, from a simple 1-page LEED scorecard to full documentation and energy modeling.
Without clear direction from the municipality/agency, how should one respond as developer or consultant? Should we as developers and consultants in Vancouver try to agree on what LEED Equivalency means to us, or can municipalities do this? Can developers and consultants agree on what it means?
Also, as many of you know, LEED Equivalency is a contentious issue with the CaGBC, as it dilutes the LEED brand and generally leads to relatively poorer performing buildings. Or does it?
Join us on March 11 at 4pm at our office (with beer!). We’re inviting city policy planners from as many municipalities in BC as possible, along with staff and board members from the CaGBC and Cascadia, as well as several private developers, and the general green building community to have an informal conversation about what LEED Equivalency means.
Panelists include:
- Thomas Muller, President, Canada Green Building Council
- David Ramslie, Sustainable Development Program Manager, City of Vancouver
- Heather Tremain, Principal, Urban Fabric (formerly of reSource reThinking Building)
- Mona Lemoine, BC Director, Cascadia Region Green Building Council
- and more!
Please spread the word!
RSVP here: http://leedequivalency.eventbrite.com/
Recollective joins HiVE!
On behalf of HiVE Vancouver Society, Recollective signed a lease for 9,000 SF of funky heritage space at 128 West Hastings. Along with 33 other progressive HiVE members, Recollective will be moving into this space May 1, 2011. HiVE is a sustainability and creativity coworking space. For more info, visit: www.hivevancouver.com
Building Green with LEED: Core Concepts and Strategies
Brenda and Eesmyal are teaching a new 36-hr course at UBC on green building called ‘Core Concepts and Strategies’. It starts Jan 27, 2011.
More info: http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/sustainability/
Dymaxion Hour – Vancouver: Holiday Edition 2010
Recollective will be hosting Cascadia’s Dymaxion Hour event on Tuesday, November 30th at 7:30pm.
RSVP: http://vancouver-nov-dymaxion.eventbrite.com/
Dymaxion (n. adj.) A term coined by Buckminster Fuller meaning the maximum output for minimum investment of materials, energy and time.
Vancouver is Cascadia’s capital city in 2011! We’ll be showcasing Vancouver’s unique innovations this April at Living Future 2011 and spotlighting Vancouver’s leading thinkers and practitioners all year long. Help us get the year started on the right foot: join us for the first reception of the holiday season. We’ll be celebrating a year’s worth of accomplishments, setting our sites on an exciting new year and introducing you to our new British Columbia-based staff! And as an added bonus, the incredible team from Recollective will be in attendance to share their green building expertise!
Part social, part business, and all fun, the dymaxion hour is intended to help you drive the most change with the least energy through information sharing and targeted networking. And just in time for the holiday rush.
Our Spaces, Our Places – After Party!
We’re hosting a party and you’re invited!
Join delegates from the Social Purpose Real Estate Conference and other lovers of creative co-working spaces to celebrate Vancouver’s up-and-coming sustainability and arts-focused shared workspace: HIVE Vancouver!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Recollective: 5 West Pender, Buzz 109
5-10pm
RSVP: http://hivealive.eventbrite.com/
Music by DJ Saul Dusty – If it’s not dusty, don’t trusty
Food and beverages generously provided by:
With special guests:
David Duprey - President, Junebug Enterprises Inc
Mark Shieh – Founder & Director, Take Root
Metro Vancouver WTEF Admin Building Achieves LEED Platinum!
More information coming soon.
Brenda & Eesmyal make the news for Green Building Brain
Recollective Principals Brenda Martens and Eesmyal Santos-Brault, along with their colleagues from the Open Green Building Society, Kalin Harvey and Alex Grunenfelder, were interviewed by the Georgia Straight about the Green Building Brain project.
The open-source, user-generated compendium boasts over a thousand examples of environmentally sensitive design and construction…
Read the full article here: http://www.straight.com/article-341760/vancouver/green-building-brain-thrives-shared-data
Patkau Architects + Recollective = FallingWater!
Recollective teamed up with Patkau Architects to win Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater cottage International Design competition!
Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Fallingwater is now an institute, and needed lodging for participants in its educational programs. They recently held a design competition to build six uber-sustainable units that was won by British Columbia’s Patkau Architects. Lynda Waggoner, director of Fallingwater says: “Fallingwater grew and still grows. We feel that the winning design by Patkau Architects will allow Fallingwater to grow by actively demonstrating the principles we espouse: good design in harmony with nature.”