tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29571009.post1328136345651784207..comments2022-03-02T17:47:57.151-08:00Comments on Edmonds School District Weblog: BetterBricks Award is conceptualESD15.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13226260553219032275noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29571009.post-5762350372956557192008-01-06T19:54:00.000-08:002008-01-06T19:54:00.000-08:00In social studies classes, we try to teach the stu...In social studies classes, we try to teach the students to understand that there are different points of view to most questions. I, like many, have had my doubts about some architectural features that I see in new buildings and remodels. <BR/><BR/>Without planning to do so, I had the surprise opportunity to talk with a school architect. Without knowing that I was connected to Edmonds, he offered Edmonds-Woodway as an example of a point he wanted to make. The "clocktower" actually hides a good deal of the HVAC equipment for the building. (I do not argue here that the HVAC equipment is or isn't up to the task; that's not the point.) The advantage to this design is that it gets the HVAC equipment off the roof of the building, which reduces the cost of the roof because you don't have to support tons of HVAC equipment and you don't have to design the roof like a bath tub to catch the water produced by the equipment. It also places a system that notoriously causes roof leaks (weight, odd angles to roofing covers, constant production of water) someplace other than the roof. He even threw out some cost-saving figures, which I have since forgotten. <BR/><BR/>I love it when I hear something new, that goes against what I think, and still makes sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com