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NEWENGLANDCONDO.COM NEW ENGLAND CONDOMINIUM — MAY 2019 13 People you can trust. Experience you can rely on. 617.482.5500 barkanco.com BOSTON HARTFORD PROVIDENCE WASHINGTON, DC is regulated by federal code with which average homeowner cannot aff ord. manufacturers need to comply. Clients still want good water pressure and fi xtures that over the last decade. Ten years ago I might Group and designed by PATH Architec- look nice within a space. “On projects like home additions, or in trying to ‘go even new home construction, we try to be green.’ proactive with as much as we can, but it usually comes down to cost in the end – ested. But in the even with clients who have larger budgets. end, when con- Any green feature that a contractor can fronted with the swap out with something more cost-eff ec- tive usually gets replaced in order to keep the fi rst things the budget in line. “I had one client a few years ago do a get as it’s just not geothermal heating and cooling system. viewed as a ne- But for the common homeowner, that ini- tial cost of installation is just too far out of reach, and many cannot commit to long- term home ownership in a single location ary 2018, con- to reap the benefi t of any payback down struction the road. “We’ve used trees that we took down on properties and repurposed them for eight-story, 14- things like fl ooring, wall fi nishes or even unit condo project in Portland, Oregon stair treads. Again, this is something that that is currently reported to be the nation’s tically-striated metal paneling and solar York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to comes with a cost – not only in dollars, but tallest wooden structure. By spring of that panels on the roof. in time to prep the raw material that your year, half of the units had been sold for “I believe that the market has improved lion. Th e project was developed by Kaiser and more severe weather events, PATH have had one client express an interest ture, both fi rms owned by developer, ar- Today people are inter- cost, it’s one of cut from a bud- cessity.” Places In Janu- was completed on Carbon12 – an prices ranging from $800,000 to $13 mil- chitect and general what Mother Nature throws at it. In an in- contractor Ben Kai- ser. A nearly all- wooden multifamily residential buildings in the country in re- residential mid-rise gard to earthquakes and other natural di- is virtually unheard sasters,” due to a thickened basement slab of, but Carbon12 resting upon deeply-planted steel pilings. fl aunts its environ- mentally-friendly one-fourth that of a concrete equivalent, materials in every but according to its designers, it’s every bit aspect of its design. as strong. Th e cross-laminated timber and glulam beams with which friendly materials, but to the health and much of the struc- ture was built were within these structures – and how those left visible inside the concepts are intertwined. In early 2017, the units themselves. Th e exterior of the property features ver- In response to the march of climate change all but guaranteeing more frequent Architecture claims that the Carbon12 project is especially resilient, regardless of terview with green design site Inhabitat in early 2019, a fi rm spokesperson said, “Car- bon12 is one of the most well-prepared In fact, the building weighs only about Things Green design not only extends to eco- general well-being of those who reside Center for Active Design – a global not- for-profi t launched in 2011 by then-New promote health in the built environment “In regard to federal or local incentives for in- corporating green design methods, those mostly ap- ply to out-of-ground con- struction, windows and HVAC, and not as much to interiors.” — Frank Hodge continued on page 39