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Elevating Your Home
Living and working in Marin for twenty years, hillside construction with two- and three-story homes was common. Every so often, a client...
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- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
Capturing Ocean Wave Energy
As a young Southern California surfer, all I knew about ocean waves was Beach Boys, surf boards and Woodies. And yet, the sheer amount...
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- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
Building Hi-Rises in Wood
Architex Angle Should Our Multi-Story and Commercial Buildings be Built of Wood? When we think of commercial and multi-story...
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- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
Making Sense of Passive Home Design
One of the newest environmental hot-buttons is Passive Home Design. Actually, nothing new. Architect’s designs today hearken back to...
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- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
Choosing Environmentally Correct Furniture
In the past, furniture shopping focused usually on colors, styles and price. Today’s consumers are actively looking for environmentally...
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- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min
Can Affordable Housing be Eco-Friendly
After years of planning and design, Napa Creek Village started construction in 2016 for a Zero Energy Project, ZEP community. Five years...
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- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min
Carbon is not our Enemy
EDPs Could Help Measure our Carbon Footprint We’re starting to treat carbon as our enemy. The reality is, we are all made of carbon. Our...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 2 min
Napa City Buildings Should Have a Reopening Strategy
It’s time for the City of Napa to take opening the public facilities seriously. To date, Napa does not have a re-opening strategy or plan....
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
Gray Water Recycling
One overlooked conservation measure is recycling gray water which is now legal. In droughts and even normal daily use, gray water is a...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 2 min
Earth Day Should Remind Us to Conserve Water
The current drought reminds us how fragile our supply is. NCARBThe recent 51st Earth Day should be a big reminder of how essential and...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
Renovation and Remodeling in 2021
How 2021 Remodeling will Swap New Home Construction With all of last year’s turmoil, few people expected the home remodeling industry to...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
Napa HHS Sale
Caritas Related LLC is willing to pay $7.5 million to buy Napa County’s 8.6-acre former Health and Human Services Agency campus on Old...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
Are Hydrogen Fuel Cells In Our Future?
The collapse of the Texas energy grid illuminates how fragile our utility supply systems are. The dependence on gas-fired generation of...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Federal Office Design
Today, I am pleased to report that the Biden Administration has revoked the design directive contained in last year’s Executive Order...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
An Architect’s Movable Architectural Feast
I have been complaining for years that our fixtures and cabinets should be adjustable. They should be able to move up, down and around to...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
How Napa’s Alleys could help its Housing Crisis
We love walking Napa Old Town. On any Saturday or Sunday morning, you’ll find us walking up and down, back-and-forth on the historic...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
Congressional Relief Package Includes Big Renewable Energy Enhancements
The latest battle to cut California’s addiction to natural gas will not be easy but there may have some alternative solutions. Congress...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 4 min
Rethinking Your Next Kitchen
An Architect’s Nuts and Bolts for a successful Design Creating a new kitchen, either a renovation or a totally new construction, is...
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- Nov 12, 2021
- 4 min
Notre-Dame Cathedral Revisited
What’s Been Done Two Years After Fire Destroyed the Spire On April 15, 2019 while most of us were paying our taxes and dreaming about...
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- Nov 12, 2021
- 6 min
ADUs and Multi-family
AB 68 Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) conjure up images of single-family homeowners with an underused back yard or aging Baby Boomers who...
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