HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-07-22 Public Comment - R. Brown - Fred Willson's 1918 HospitalFrom:Richard Brown
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Subject:Fred Willson"s 1918 Hospital
Date:Monday, February 7, 2022 7:54:44 AM
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Embodied Energy and Adaptive Reuse How often have we heard a developer say, “It’s not economically feasible to save the building,we must tear it down, haul it to the dump and build something new and more efficient”? “It takes about 65 years for an energy-efficient new building to save the amount of energy lost
in demolishing an existing building, according to the United States Environmental ProtectionAgency, repurposing old buildings also reduces the need for the construction of new buildings,
a process that requires land, energy and materials.”-Kelcey McClung Embodied energy is the sum of all the energy required to produce any goods or services,considered as if that energy was incorporated or 'embodied' in the product itself. An existing building is not a pile of obsolete parts, it is a construction of parts whose energy iscontained within has already been expended. If the old building were torn down and anidentical building were built to replace the difference in the procurement of raw materials, theenergy it would take to transform these into useful parts, the transportation to get all theseparts to the site and the energy required to assemble the parts is an exponential waste ofirreplaceable resources and energy. “As cities become more and more alike over time, our historic resources become these uniqueattributes that can’t be replicated, they add things to our neighborhoods that no other buildingscan.”-Annie Levinsky, executive director of Historic Denver
"Adaptive reuse is a great opportunity to save and honor the heritage of a city and the historywithin. Repurposing a building from a different era helps to create a unique atmosphere for
guests when creating a destination location."-Patricia Wall, vice president at Wall Construction
“Adaptive reuse projects retain unique and authentic characteristics that cannot be
manufactured in new construction. Successful implementation of adaptive reuse development,blends together modern technology with historic structures, creating an atmosphere and sense
of place that is impossible to imitate.”
-Brian Hutt, director of Denver's Cushman and Wakefield office.
The ‘greenest’ buildings are the ones that already exist.
Richard Brown, Bozeman resident since 1956