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Here is how you can create an Exchange 2003 Recovery Storage Group on an USB drive attached to your Exchange server, restore an Exchange 2003 Store to that USB drive, and then extract a mailbox to pst using ExMerge of a user whose account has been deleted and is past the tombstone retention date.
That's a mouthful.
Just in case some other folks have to deal with this I wanted to give the steps I went through here after a weekend of trial and error then helped by some great blog postings. In my case I couldn't just do a granular items restore because I really needed multiple mailboxes from this time period and honestly I've never had great success with restoring a large amount of mail items using Backup Exec 12.5 without doing a full store restore.
The situation is this. You need to restore an entire store of Exchange 2003 in a previous state, however you don't have enough disk space on your Exchange server to support another copy of the store.
You could restore to a usb drive connected to your exchange store, except that when you do that your backup agent complains that the USB drive isn't an acceptable storage location.
In actuality the USB drive IS an acceptable storage location, but it needs to have some work done on it first.
The reason your backup agent won't restore to a usb drive is because a usb drive that is connected after the server is already up and running doesn't have an admin share... and the backup agent uses UNC paths to do its restore work as documented here:
So the solution is two fold, you can either start and stop various services documented in the link above, or you can just reboot your exchange server with the usb drive connected. Either way you'll get the needed admin share.
Now you can create your recovery storage group point it to your USB drive, then do your restore and the restore of the store will be directed to the RSG which is on the USB drive.
Half the process down.
So now lets say the mailbox you want to restore is a mailbox of an AD user who has long since been deleted... the AD user is gone, and the mailbox is gone and its past your AD's retention date for those tombstoned objects so they are TRULY gone.
If you try to EXMERGE a mailbox from a RSG store you'll discover that when you get to screen to select mailboxes you'll get a error that tells you to check for the log for details, and when the list of mailboxes come up you'll note that the mailbox of the user who has been deleted is not displayed.
Checking the log you'll see a message similar to the following:
Error! Cannot identify the user with the msExchMailboxGuid (series of slashes and characters). The legacyExchangeDN is (user object name).
ExMerge uses the msExchMailboxGuid to figure out whom you are extracting mail for and of course with the user gone that Guid is gone. Even recreating the user will not bring back the Guid as its unique to each user.
The above blog talks about this and gives you with the a tool located in the second link a way to convert the guid listed in the exmerge log to hex. You can then use Adsiedit to apply the full hex guid to the temp user you've created in AD. Now your exmerge will list that temp user as a mailbox that can be extracted (even though the mailbox size may now show up incorrectly and it will be named whatever you named the temp AD user), it will still extract the mailbox per the options you define.
I hope this helps someone else.
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Mar 12, 2012 at 9:07 UTC
This looks good - Thank you
Mar 12, 2012 at 9:09 UTC
Nice write up Darien, might I suggest heading ove rto the "How-To" section of the community and creating a how-to of this for everyone benefit please?
This would be a perfect edition.
Mar 12, 2012 at 9:17 UTC
Nice write up Darien, might I suggest heading ove rto the "How-To" section of the community and creating a how-to of this for everyone benefit please?
This would be a perfect edition.
Great stuff, I had that issue a couple of months back and couldn't get it to restore, so ended using up an old spare server (lucky to have one)
+1 to what Jay says about moving it to HOW-TO section
Mar 12, 2012 at 9:33 UTC
Thanks, I'll try to get that done sometime in the next day or so.
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A friend of mine referred me to Robots & Pencils, and I thought I'd start helping them out. It's exciting to be working with a big organization like theirs on exciting projects. They are a developer for hire firm, and as such, I won't be able to talk too much about the various projects that I'll be involved in. But it is developing in Unity, and targeting several platforms, so exactly what I enjoy doing.
I've been talking with a member of the Las Vegas Unity Meetup recently, and he's working on an Indie project. Finally talked more about it, and got invited to collaborate on his project.
Absolutely love the art:
I'd post more of the game and art here, but I don't want it to get confused about my contributions. My main draw was the art style, because it's awesome, so definitely check it out. I'm just really excited to be able to collaborate on this project. So far I've only fixed a few bugs, but I'm really looking forward to working on this project in my spare time.
I've extended the flocking code framework to now have the concept of Enemy Squadrons. They have multiple states, and idle in a defense pattern, begin an approach, deliver an attack on a defense target, and even retreat, and return to their idle defense origin. It's really fun to see game elements start to come together. I also had to work out the friendly defense units, and did some rough animations of some cubes to get the game going.
I've been really focused on getting the Art to progress, but now it's time to define the game mechanics, and decide how it will play. This phase is always interesting to me because it's about finding the fun. As part of this, I've read a lot about other people's post postmortems and tried to develop more of a story element behind these characters. I think I know a little about the enemy and why they are attacking these units, but I know I need to continue to flesh this out.
I know a little about the game I want to make, but I need to take it out for a nice dinner, and get to know it a little better. I know I'm slow at these parts of the development process, but I'm not worried about the rest. Once the game is well defined, I'm confident I'll be able to get the pieces to come together to tell the story. It's getting the story together that I'm trying to work on now.
I've been playing around with a space environment, and I think this is pretty close to the look that I want for the environment. I made some more tests with the flocking to test performance in the environment, but I thought I'd post a quick video showing off the environment pieces a little. Although I don't look around the environment too much in these videos, this is in VR, and it is accurate representation of space. Star Map Emitter, Planets, and a Galaxy skybox. I did distort some of the distances… (Moon is technically too close) But hopefully that can be forgiven for the sake of art.
Playing around with Flocking, and removing GC calls, and optimizations for large numbers of independent groupings. I think this is way more than I plan on controlling at any given time, but 3,000 runs pretty smoothly even without the CPU batching planned in Unity 5.6.
A little more contextual example would be 47 Squadrons of 7 ships each with their own dynamic targeting / pathing. This video was captured while playing in Unity on the HTC Vive at 140 fps using an nVidia GTX 980. This also has an extra 200 draw calls in the scene just to make sure I have plenty of headroom for performance once everything is added.
Here's a video I made for a client showing a quick prototype I put together for a potential mobile game. Not a lot of polish, but just something quick to convey a few art options, and help sell the pitch to fund a project.
GDC this year was a great experience for me. The galvanized opinions around which VR platform would be most successful, or widely adopted were energetic and food which will keep me motivated for a good while. My only regret is not having made more progress on my project, or being more willing to share the progress. I think I'm not quite far enough to share too much, and I'm optimistic that nobody sees my website.
My takeaway is that there are a large number of companies focusing on developing content for these platforms, and they will all have success based on the visibility which is available to the early movers. The only difference between any of them, and any of the independent developers is the location and recognition. Many of the startups are in SF, or Seattle, while many more are located in garages, or bedrooms across the world. It was very motivating realizing that many who are working for the larger teams are successful because of the large group of talent that they've gathered. While that seems interesting, I'm currently not sure how relocation would work, and I'm really motivated to find people here in Vegas who have the talent and interest.
The value of Networking is difficult to quantify, but the energy that is within the game industry is undeniable. And it was good to revisit such a condensed form of that energy at GDC.
Alright – I'm not an environment modeler, and I don't claim to be an artist. But for programmer art, I think 4 hours of modeling and environment creation are starting to look pretty exciting.
And no – I don't feel like VR doors need handles. They need an interface, but I'm planning on doing a screen you have to interact with before going through. Big plans for that door, and all the magic that will ensue behind it.
Oh – I also need to start working on BitScience webpage. Logo, Media, Web Layout, etc.


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The AIA 2030 Commitment: Commitment IssuesPosted: May 31, 2016 Filed under: AIA 2030 Commitment, architecture, boston society of architects, green building, sustainable design | Tags: AIA 2030 Commitment, Architecture, Boston Society of Architects, climate change, green building, sustainable design Leave a comment
Are you commitment-phobic? It's not pretty.
If you have commitment issues, the thought of going "all in" with another person could give you the shakes. For some peripatetic people, the grass over there always looks greener. Some sorry folks have torched a few too many bridges in their lives.
But hey, not us! We're architects and interior designers. Ours isn't a field you dabble in. You commit to it. Every day.
So we shouldn't have a problem making the AIA 2030 Commitment, right? But so far, only 350 firms have signed it. There are 21,000 architectural firms in the USA. That means 20,650 companies need help. So allow me:
Start here. Andrea Love, AIA, is Director of Building Science at Payette and chairs the AIA National 2030 Commitment Working Group. Her firm has committed. In this great article about her in AIA Architect, she's described as a "commitment coach." Andrea says thanks to the 2030 Commitment, there is now "energy intuition" at Payette. Even the firm's Principals (gasp!) know what an EUI is, how to find the EUI for a project, and whether a specific EUI is good or not.
Andrea has also led the charge on developing and rolling out the AIA's new Design Data Exchange (DDX) reporting tool and initiated the Working Group's new peer-to-peer mentorship program that will (hopefully, soon) get you and your firm to overcome your fear of commitment and sign up.
Need more? Paula Melton at BuildingGreen Inc. says there are selfish reasons to commit, too. She quotes Greg Mella, FAIA, VP at SmithGroupJJR who says that signing the AIA 2030 Commitment gave his firm specific, measurable ways to track their progress towards greater energy efficiency goals.
Paula also quotes Heather Holdridge, Assoc. AIA and sustainability manager at Lake|Flato Architects. Heather says the AIA 2030 Commitment saves her firm time as reporting becomes a database of high-performance project strategies that keep them from re-inventing the wheel.
Perhaps you think that committing won't make a difference? Another Environmental Building news article takes a more philosophical approach. In this one, "Progress on 2030 Goals" (also by Paula Melton) Melissa Wackerle, the AIA's Senior Director for Sustainable Practice & Knowledge, reports that the AIA 2030 Commitment is growing. In 2010, year one of the Commitment, 56 firms reported. By the end of 2014, 140 firms were delivering data. And given recent news about the growing threats of climate change AND the new ease and benefits of 2030 reporting, she expects that more firms will be committing in the near future.
The take away? Change is happening. So c'mon, sign up. You have nothing to fear.
The AIA 2030 Commitment: Connecting to the MissionPosted: February 25, 2016 Filed under: AIA 2030 Commitment, architecture, boston society of architects, green building, sustainable design | Tags: AIA 2030 Commitment, Architecture, Boston Society of Architects, climate change, green building, sustainable design Leave a comment
"It's great that the firm's senior leaders are so committed to sustainable design. But it's hard to see how I connect to that mission in my day-to-day work."
I've recently become president of Bergmeyer, my architecture and interior design firm. With this new position, I have set an ambitious goal: to have lunch with each and every member of our staff. It's been great so far! But that first statement has come up a few times.
How can we address this? How can we be sure that everyone in our organization feels like they are connected to the sustainable design mission?
That's where the AIA 2030 Commitment comes in. Allow me to elaborate.
Bergmeyer has been doing this AIA 2030 Commitment thing for about five years now. We signed in 2011, created our first Sustainability Action Plan, and reported the aggregated design energy use of all our projects in 2012. With this first report, we could see that the sum floor area of our interiors-only work was twice that of our whole-buildings work. Our lighting power density (LPD) for these projects was pretty good in year one: 19.5% better than baseline.
Over the years, our annual LPD for interiors-only projects has improved to 29.4% better than baseline in 2013 and 32.9% better in 2014. We've been encouraged, but we suspected a lot of our energy efficiency gains came from the greater commercial acceptance of LED lighting and tougher energy codes. Plus, we were getting LPD calculations from our engineers after we were done designing, so we had little influence over them. And there has been a baffling spread of LPDs within these projects from 0.50 to almost 5.00 watts/SF, well over the 1.5 watt/SF baseline. Something was not right.
Last year we gave ourselves a challenge. With the AIA 2030 Commitment providing the framework for our sustainable design mission, we knew we needed to be smarter about lighting power density. We wanted our designers to have a tool that would let them make real-time LPD calculations and drive consistently better energy efficiency during the design process.
So we developed a plug-in for our design software. Then we identified a beta project and let the team run with it.
Two weeks ago, I was in a meeting as one of our designers demonstrated this tool. She was projecting a reflected ceiling plan on the conference room wall. Next to the ceiling plan was a schedule with a bunch of what she called "fields". She was also using words like "model space" and "parameters". I was nodding as if I understood what she was talking about. But what I did understand was this: she had developed a lighting schedule, populated it with light fixtures that had wattages "built into the families", and was able to generate lighting power density calculations instantly. Every time she made changes to the ceiling plan. Victory!
We plan to train people with this tool over the course of this year. Our SMART goal is to have someone on every design team who can calculate and understand how to improve a project's lighting power density. These folks will also be trained to enter data into the new AIA 2030 Commitment DDX database and play a hands-on role in the further reduction of the designed energy use of all Bergmeyer's projects.
Connecting people to the organizational mission is critical. The AIA 2030 Commitment is helping us make it happen.
The AIA 2030 Commitment: Do What You LovePosted: December 22, 2015 Filed under: AIA 2030 Commitment, architecture, boston society of architects, green building, sustainable design | Tags: AIA 2030 Commitment, Architecture, Boston Society of Architects, climate change, green building, sustainable design Leave a comment
It's not every day you get to have dinner with one of your heroes.
Last month, I posted a newsy account of Ed Mazria's visit to Boston and his evening presentation to the Boston Society of Architects. The summary: architects are driving building energy efficiency and making a difference. Although there is a lot of work ahead, US cities like Boston are leading the charge. Read about it here.
After his presentation, a bunch of us hosted him for dinner. My notes from that extended conversation are not great (kinda hard to write on black napkins) but it was certainly a memorable evening. The guy has many great stories and he tells them with panache and aplomb. But there is also a valuable life-lesson running like a clear line through much of what he has to say:
If you have to work for a living, you'll be happier and more successful if you do something you are passionate about.
Easier said than done? Sure. But stay with me for a bit.
Ed is a Brooklyn guy who graduated from Pratt in 1963 and got his first professional job at Edward Larabee Barnes. Not an unusual career start for an architect. He got his Masters and did some teaching at the University of New Mexico in 1973. Opened Mazria Associates in 1978. Wrote a good book about passive solar design in 1979 and did another teaching gig at University of Oregon.
That could be the story for many of us. But that wasn't enough for Ed. He was hot to change the profession.
The LEED Rating System was launched in the mid-1990s and the first Greenbuild Conference was 2002 in Austin. Now, certainly, everyone who cares about sustainable design thinks LEED is a good thing, right? But Ed is driven by data. He said to himself: this is alright, but it's not going to drive building energy use reduction fast enough. Climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from (in a large part) building energy use, and radical energy efficiency wasn't even required to meet baseline LEED Certification at the time. Ed thought architecture needed a bigger push.
So he created that bigger push. He threw down the gauntlet in 2002, issued the 2030 Challenge and formed Architecture 2030. In 2006, he persuaded the AIA to adopt the 2030 Challenge, the USGBC to incorporate it into the LEED Rating System, and the US Conference of Mayors to endorse it as public policy. In 2010, the AIA 2030 Commitment was created to help architects meet the goals of the 2030 Challenge and the story continues to unfold.
And Ed's story is not just a professional story. It's a personal one, too. When asked about how he got his start in sustainable design, he talks of coming up to speed very quickly in order to land a teaching job. The organization – Architecture 2030 – was initially part of his design firm. But as it began to gain momentum and take more of his time and energy, he realized it needed independent leadership and a different structure to be effective. Hence the 2030 think tank was born. His tale of tracking down Susan Szenasy (Editor-in-Chief of Metropolis Magazine) with an idea for a story about buildings and climate change is a favorite: He wouldn't give them the story unless he got the cover! "Turning Down the Global Thermostat", the October 2003 Metropolis Magazine cover story, was Ed's first shot across the bow of the established insider architectural press.
Next thing you know, he's giving keynotes at AIA Conventions, winning the 2015 AIA Kemper Award for significant contributions to the profession and being elected to the AIA College of Fellows. Plus he's bringing the 2030 Challenge to China and Korea, and drafting language for COP21, the UN Paris Climate Talks. December 3 at COP21 was the first-ever UNFCCC Buildings Day, and there was Mister 2030 on the podium delivering the "Roadmap to Zero" and talking about how 52 international firms had signed building energy reduction accords in China. This is the work of a person with a passion.
I know this great quote from Thoreau. I heard it first from one of my oldest and best friends and mentors, Amy Bernhardt. It goes like this:
"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."
It's among the best bits of advice I have ever received. It has certainly worked for Ed Mazria.
The AIA 2030 Commitment: Get SMARTPosted: October 12, 2015 Filed under: AIA 2030 Commitment, architecture, boston society of architects, green building, sustainable design | Tags: AIA 2030 Commitment, Architecture, Boston Society of Architects, climate change, green building, sustainable design 4 Comments
I started writing this blog just over four years ago on a dare. I accepted a challenge, and my part of the bargain was to write regularly about my design firm, Bergmeyer, and our adoption of the AIA 2030 Commitment. Seventy-two posts later, I'm still volunteering for big, hairy, audacious challenges. Still haven't learned.
The challenge I'm writing about today is a bigger but related one. I'm setting sustainable design performance goals for Bergmeyer, and using the AIA 2030 Commitment to help. Allow me to elaborate.
We believe we are walking the sustainable design walk. We have many LEED Certified projects in our firm's portfolio. Since we signed the AIA 2030 Commitment, we have written and updated our Sustainability Action Plan and have completed our fourth year of project energy use reporting.
But yet, year to year, our energy use metrics have not significantly improved. So a little while ago, we had the Sustainable Performance Institute in to do an assessment of our approach. Executive Director Barbra Batshalom took a deep-dive into our design process. She left us – as expected – with good news and bad news. The good news was the unusual degree to which our firm's leadership and staff are committed to sustainable design. What needed improvement, she said, was our "project delivery methodologies."
We were unsure of how to tackle that one, so Barbra advised us to create SMART goals. I immediately grabbed my shoe phone to call the Chief back at CONTROL headquarters.
Just kidding.
You may know that SMART is an acronym for goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-focused* and Time-bound. SMART goals are objective success measures that – if applied and observed rigorously – can show whether an organization is continually improving or not. And for Bergmeyer, participation in the AIA 2030 Commitment is what will make our SMART goals possible.
One example of a SMART goal: Improve our use of Lighting Power Density.
We do a ton of interior design projects. Many of them don't involve base building MEP systems, so the energy use metric we use is lighting power density or LPD. A goal for us would be to promote greater understanding and use of LPD by our design teams. We need to be able to calculate this ourselves and make design choices while in schematic to improve it. So a SMART goal would be: Have 50% of our interiors project teams using LPD in schematic design so our aggregated LPD in 2016 is 20% better than our 2015 number.
Specific? Improved use of LPD. Measurable? It's against 50% of however many interiors projects we do in a year. Achievable? We don't have a baseline yet, so we're hoping it is. Results-focused? That aggregate annual AIA 2030 LPD number doesn't lie. Time-bound? We report again in March of 2016.
Another example: Improve our firm-wide PEUI reduction.
This might be a tougher one than LPD reduction. We only model about 50% of the whole building projects we do. But since some of our work is multi-site implementation of a building we design once (a prototype), if we model and improve a prototype that would affect more of our whole buildings. We just finished report on energy use payback analysis for big-box retail stores to help us make the business case for this approach. So a SMART goal for us would be: improve our 2016 firm-wide whole-building PEUI reduction to 40% below average.
Specific? PEUI reduction. Measurable? Target is 40% below average. Achievable? We were at 25% reduction last year (missed it by that much) so it's also a stretch. Results-focused? We'll all be looking at that 2016 AIA 2030 summary together. Time-bound: Same deadline as above.
Possible? Would you believe . . .? With the tools and support of the AIA 2030 Commitment, it is.
(* There are many different versions of the "R" goal. Besides Results-oriented, others are Relevant, Realistic [which changes the "A" from Achievable to Assignable], Resourced, and etc. And there are some counter-arguments here.)
The AIA 2030 Commitment: A New PerspectivePosted: July 31, 2015 Filed under: AIA 2030 Commitment, architecture, boston society of architects, green building, sustainable design | Tags: AIA 2030 Commitment, Architecture, Boston Society of Architects, climate change, green building, sustainable design Leave a comment
Greetings from Herring Cove Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The only place in the Northeast USA where you can watch the sun set in the west over the ocean. Or something like that.
Vacation can be a great way to get a new perspective. But all the time you're on the Cape, you can't help but think about climate change and sea level rise. The Ocean, the ecosystem, the climate: it's why we come here. But a one meter rise in sea level and most of the Cape Cod National Seashore is gone. Throw a 100-year storm at high tide on top of that and Provincetown becomes an island. Meanwhile, up in that bright azure sky, atmospheric CO2 is at 400 ppm and buildings continue to produce 44.6% of the US's annual CO2 emissions.
Surely, there can be no more important issue for architects in Massachusetts (or in the world!) than driving radical reduction in building energy use as a way to mitigate climate change and sea level rise and protect our beloved natural environment.
Perhaps. But perhaps not.
Flashback to a few months ago. I had the honor of being asked to participate in the first daylong work session of the City of Boston with the 100 Resilient Cities initiative. If you don't know about the "100RC", you should. This program – formed and financed by the Rockefeller Foundation – works to "help cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century". Boston's selection to be part of 100 RC was headline news. The award comes with grant funding to hire a Chief Resilience Officer and access to a global networks of member cities, NGOs, and other strategic public and private resources.
I found myself in this daylong work session at Boston's Fanieul Hall with a couple hundred people from the City's many charitable, cultural, civic, advocacy, and educational organizations. I was one of only two architects there. And when we got to the first breakout group, I astutely observed that I was the only white guy over age 50 at my table.
Then came the assignment. The table facilitator had two stacks of cards, labelled STRESSES and SHOCKS, each describing about 20 different chronic problems or acute threats that could potentially jeopardize the survival of urban systems. We were asked to work together to rank these stresses and shocks on an X-Y scale of increasing likelihood and greater severity.
When the card for SEA LEVEL RISE turned up I was all over it. This was shock number one. Boston is a low lying coastal city. Flooding and storm surges will disrupt transportation, businesses, housing, public safety. Imagine one to two feet of sea level rise by 2050 and hurricane Sandy and nobody has a plan to get us ready for it.
Silence. Looks were being exchanged around the table. One brave soul offered: "But in the near term? How is this more important to us than addressing income inequality or lack of social cohesion?"
I was schooled. In the future, urban resilience will depend fundamentally on social cohesion. Climate change impacts are inequitable. No defensive or resilient infrastructure planning can happen unless all the city's residents are working cooperatively to achieve shared well-being. Boston certainly needs some work here. While some residents see growth and opportunity, others see gentrification and disenfranchisement. Some people demand better public schools and transportation while some get bent out of shape about curb cuts that don't look historic enough for their neighborhood. Sure, these debates aren't unique to Boston or the 21st century, but the point was that basic human needs have to be addressed before we can talk about turning parking lots into storm water retention basins.
I had to agree. People come first. We do what we do to enable productive human uses and enhance lives. That is why the built environment exists.
We architects spend a lot of time talking to each other. We know the architecture and climate change script so well by now we can recite it in our sleep. So I left the 100RC workshop with another insight: It's important for us to listen to the new voices and get a new perspective once in a while. I haven't changed my mind about the AIA 2030 Commitment one iota, but I can see it as one part of a larger sustainability mission.
That's it for now. Time for more sunscreen.
The AIA 2030 Commitment: Seeing Is BelievingPosted: May 20, 2015 Filed under: AIA 2030 Commitment, architecture, boston society of architects, green building, sustainable design | Tags: AIA 2030 Commitment, Architecture, Boston Society of Architects, climate change, green building, sustainable design 1 Comment
Were you in Atlanta for the 2015 AIA Convention? About 18,000 people attended, plus exhibitors. It was huge. I coulda missed you.
Here's the headline news: If you are really, seriously committed to doing sustainable design, the Design Data Exchange (aka the DDx) – the new AIA 2030 Commitment reporting tool – will light up your life. The AIA COTE and a 2030 Commitment Working Group worked with the US Department of Energy for almost a year on DDx. It was unveiled at Convention with dramatic flourish at an open public forum.
Andrea Love, AIA, and Greg Mella, FAIA, provided the dramatic flourish. They masterfully demonstrated the features of DDx's streamlined user interface. But I stopped listening when Andrea said this:
"We have a few laptops over there with dummy logins so you can try DDx yourself."
I'm a visual and kinesthetic learner. I need to see something and get my hands on it to understand it. Being inclined to break things, I also found the term "dummy login" very attractive. As soon as the presentation was over, I made a beeline for the work station.
But . . . rather than just reading about what I discovered, why not see it yourself?
Do this: Follow this link to the AIA 2030 Commitment home page. Click the URL for the AIA 2030 DDx. Enter the email address firstname.lastname@example.com with the password AIA2030DDx and watch DDx in action. Without flying to Atlanta. Or leaving at 5:30 AM. With a change in Charlotte.
The AIA 2030 DDx home screen is a sleek, clean user interface. Very unintimidating. When you log in, you'll be looking at the fictional projects of imaginary firm Acmeview Architects. See the four main tabs? Portfolio, Inputs, Reports, and Research. You know what those mean. The five little buttons on the side are what you use to add data on a new project. One button even lets you duplicate a project record for those multi-site commissions. So far so good.
In the "Summary" pulldown box, select 2014 as the Reporting Year. The list edits to show 55 projects by building use type, location, and predicted, baseline, and target EUI. Acmeview Architects' 55 projects comprised 15 million GSF of total floor area. They must do some pretty big buildings!
Next, pick a project at random and check out the "Inputs" tab. Here's where data gets entered. Again, there are easy pull-downs for everything. The "Target Certification" menu includes LEED levels, Energy Star, and many others. The "Design Energy Code" menu includes many active versions of ASHRAE, IECC and California Title 24. Go ahead, poke around. You can't break it.
The "Building Envelope" tab asks for broad brush R Values and U Factors. Not too hard. But I opened the "HVAC Systems" tab with some hesitation. When confronted with "Zone Equipment", the "Heating" tab asks to select from 16 choices that include radiant floor, fan coils, VAV, package terminal heat pump . . . heck, even I know what those things are. Not a problem.
Back to the main menu. The "Reports" tab is where it gets exciting. This firm has four offices: North Bethesda, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Houston. Look again at the 2014 reporting year. Combined, all four offices reached a 46.5% reduction in PEUI and a 14.4% reduction in LPD. Nice. But as you click though each office's individual reporting, you see the Houston office pulled the numbers down. Houston reported one project and only achieved a 28.1% reduction in PEUI. Houston, we have a problem.
Go back to Portfolio, 2014, and sort by Building Use Type. There it is: a 1.7 million GSF inpatient hospital in Louisiana. Its 202 kBtu/sf/yr. compares to a baseline of 281 kBtu/sf/yr. But Acmeview Architects' North Bethesda office designed inpatient hospitals in 2014 at 83 and 95 kBtu/sf/yr, far better than Houston's job. Maybe it's time for a trip to Houston to see what's going on. Let's see. Lots of direct flights from Atlanta . . .
There was much more to see, but a restless crowd had formed around the work station. And my next seminar was about to begin. Besides, after only 10 minutes of study I had a good grasp of what DDx could do. Seeing was believing.
As I bolted for room B406, I couldn't help thinking that convincing architects to sign the AIA 2030 Commitment would be a little easier now.
The AIA 2030 Commitment: A Conspiracy TheoryPosted: April 21, 2015 Filed under: AIA 2030 Commitment, architecture, boston society of architects, green building, sustainable design | Tags: AIA 2030 Commitment, Architecture, Boston Society of Architects, climate change, green building, sustainable design 2 Comments
Want proof that college is worth it?
This was the title of a recent article in the Washington Post. The story included a chart of 100 different college majors ranked by median lifetime earnings in millions of dollars. Architecture was around number 26, just ahead of Political Science. The top nine majors: all Engineering.
I had lunch with an engineer the other day: Kim Shinn, PE, LEED Fellow, of TLC Engineering. Kim calls himself a recovering physicist (physics came in at #14 on that chart) doing engineering to make a living. He was intense. Tall, lanky, bald, and dressed in black. Picture Yul Brynner with a Texas twang. And he spoke with urgency as if to share dire prophesies.
Bergmeyer hired Kim for a unique assignment. One of our commercial building clients had new sites in California. They wanted to know how the prototype we designed for them could conform to CALGreen, the state's 2014 Green Building Standards Code.
Kim's short answer: Not easily. CALGreen required a 20% increase in energy efficiency. Title 24, the state building code, had gone from basing its Energy Conservation Chapter from ASHRAE 90.1-2007 to ASHRAE 90.1-2010 in one fell swoop. It was the single biggest jump in energy codes he had ever seen.
His example: If a building designed to meet ASHRAE 90-1975 had a theoretical baseline energy performance of 100, that same building measured by CALGreen would be below 50.
And Kim was convinced that California was just the beginning. The rest of the country would eventually adopt these more stringent building energy codes. "I know where this is going! We'll all be there soon!" (If by "being there soon" he meant in Sonoma County with a nice zinfandel, I was ready.)
But he didn't. He had a warning for architects. Pressing his fists firmly together, he added "there's fixin' to be some conflict here!" because new energy codes would start influencing Architecture!
Like this: the newest version of the International Energy Conservation Code (which is also based on ASHRAE 90.1-2010) mandates skylights and daylight controls for single-story commercial spaces over 10,000 SF with 15' high ceilings. It set a window-wall ratio (WWR) of not more than 30% glass, unless 50% of floor area was in a "daylight zone" and high Solar Heat Gain Coefficient glass was used – and that just nudges the WWR to 40%. All-glass buildings? Only possible through energy modelling and the "performance" code compliance path. Which meant COMcheck – the old standby code compliance checklist – would be useless.
Excited by the thought of truly progressive building codes, I asked: What's driving this change?
Kim had more insight. He lowered his voice and looked around the restaurant. It's the US Department of Energy, he said. The US DOE wants to get us to net zero by 2035. ASHRAE and the International Code Council are on board, too. And they have the Pacific Northwest National Labs doing cost-benefits analyses. If a new energy code causes a $2-$3/SF increase in construction cost and produces a $0.25-$0.50/SF/year in energy cost savings, it's a 4 to 8 year payback and within their "sweet spot". So it gets adopted in the next code update. That's how they'll get us to net zero by 2035.
Just then, I had a vision. I saw a Dr. Strangelove–like setting. A windowless room, huge computer screens on every wall, big conference table in the middle, full of . . . engineers. With a red desktop telephone connected directly to the DOE. All conspiring to make building energy codes so rigorous that engineers and energy modelling would soon become indispensable. And then, engineers would take control of the design of the built environment . . . for good.
And I smiled. I suddenly felt the Architecture 2030 Commitment might be a little easier to achieve. Because engineers were together and mobilized. And on our side.
I promised not to tell anyone. And I paid for his lunch.
4/22/2015 update: For architects heading to Atlanta for the 2015 AIA Convention, I highly recommend a full-day pre-conference workshop titled "Transforming Firm Culture and Process: Embracing Sustainability and Getting to 2030." With all-star presenters Barbra Batshalom, Nadav Malin and Betsy del Monte, this is a don't-miss. Here's a link.


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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Things to be decided: > > 1) the PMC chair. so far I'm the only person who volunteered. I'd be > happy to accept that job. (hey, that would turn me into a vice-president > of the foundation, wow :-) Congratulations ;) > > - o - > > 2) the list of PMC members. > > My intention is to have a large PMC. Every active cocoon committer will > have the chance to be in that PMC without requiring an election. +1 > At the same time, I'd ask you people to consider partecipation at the > PMC as a serious thing and step out *NOW* if you don't feel like you > should be there. > > A PMC is the Project Management Commitee. As for ASF bylaws, the PMC is > legally responsible of the oversight of the project and reports directly > to the ASF board via its chair. > > The PMC is responsible for *all* the codebases that it will host. Note > that if the Cocoon PMC will host more codebases, *all* committers from > all hosted codebases will be treated equal, this (and other ASF-wide > communities) will hopefully avoid the jakarta-effect of internal > fragmentation. > > This is the list of the current active committers > > Nicola Ken Barozzi (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Marcus Crafter (email@example.com) > David Crossley (email@example.com) > Torsten Curdt (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Bertrand Delacrétaz (email@example.com) > Vadim Gritsenko (email@example.com) > Christian Haul (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Ivelin Ivanov (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Stefano Mazzocchi (email@example.com) > Stephan Michels (email@example.com) > John Morrison (email@example.com) > Steven Noels (email@example.com) > Andrew Oliver (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Giacomo Pati (email@example.com) > Konstantin Piroumian (email@example.com) > Ovidiu Predescu (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Jeremy Quinn (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Gianugo Rabellino (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Peter Royal (email@example.com) > Diana Shannon (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Davanum Srinivas (firstname.lastname@example.com) > Sylvain Wallez (email@example.com) > Carsten Ziegeler (email@example.com) > > If you think you should be there but you are not listed, please speak up > now. > > If you don't want to sit in the PMC, please speak up now. > > [matthew has been proposed and will be added to the list if accepted] +1 > > - o - > > 3) the scope of the Cocoon PMC > > well, this is not easy, I'll try to come up with something soon and a > vision to share. Try using examples like the http guildline or the xml charter I've mentioned in an earlier mail. Giacomo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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[Query] Hari Aum, pranaamaaha, we recite chandi 9 akshara manthra before saptashathi but saptashathi does not describe this. Shreevidhya aamnayas also do not include this mantra. Iam confused why this mantra has gained so much importance.
The upAsanA of paradevatA as shrI chaNDikA has various pramANas. The Sruti describes the glory of this mahAmantra, in devyupaniShat, along with Srividya and Bhuvaneshwari Mantras. The ArSha vAkya, kalau chaNDI vinAyakau is stated in various scriptures. Also, it is not true that navArNa mantra is not significant within the realms of Srividya. My Gurunathar gave navArNa mantra as uttarAMga mahAvidyA to mahAShoDashi. Also, chaNDi belongs to uttarAmnAya of Srividya, 'durgA kAlI
tatashchaNDI nakulI cha pulindinI'. Srividya Krama Tantra discusses various variations of navArNa mantra and derives nine upa mahAvidyA mantras from it. An entire AvaraNa is dedicated to navArNa-family of devatas here.
The association of navakSharI with chaNDikA is well described in Tantras such as Damara, vArAhI, kAtyAyanI, rudrayAmala etc. In mArkaNDeya purANa itself, the mantra is described by Medhas to Suratha:
Adau natvA mahAlakShmIM kartR^ikartR^IM sadoditAm |
trailokyaDAmaraM mantraM shR^iNu bhUpa navAkSharam |
yasya vij~nAnamAtreNa paramaishwaryavAnnaraH ||
Here, 'trailokyaDAmara' means: the great mantra which is well-known in the three worlds or that mantra which was revealed to the three worlds through the Damara Tantra. The fruit of reciting this mantra is described as paramaishwaryAvApti. The highest of aiShwarya is that which is desired even by deities like viShNu, brahma, indra etc., which is characteristic only of parameshwara. Thus, by reciting this mantra, one becomes paramashiva. The details of worship of Chandika is described in Markandeya Purana, but these seven chapters are regarded as khila [appendix] to the main purANa. Of these seven chapters, the first three describe the well-known rahasyatraya and the other four describes details of navArNa mantra, nyAsa, pUja etc.
jantorapashchimatanoH sati karmasAmye
niHsheShapAshapaTalacChidurA nimeShAt |
kalyANi deshikakaTAkShasamAshrayeNa
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Yupper, I've gotten around Mexico.
But, lets get a perspective of how big Mexico actually is. Most think it's not a huge country, but let's put that into perspective.
Or compared to the U.S. It definitely covers a few of the states. Mexico is 20% of the size of the U.S.
Mexico is the 13th largest country in the world.
The following is a close track of where I've traveled to, in Mexico. I've covered quite a lot, but still have missed a much of what Mexico has to offer.
Here are "guesstimated" maps of where I've traveled to in Mexico
The Yucatan:
The driving around the southern portion of Mexico:
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Then there's more of "middle" Mexico. I've traveled slowly through Mexico, and quite happy that I did that.
Then there's the northern part of Mexico, where I entered from the U.S.
This entails 18 months of travel in Mexico.
4 months in Cancun. A Mecca for the tourists coming to Mexico.
3 months in Tapachula – having my teeth worked on. Only reason I can see coming to Tapachula is if you're doing a border crossing. Not much to do or see in or around the city.
A month in Creel, a base to travel throughout the Copper Canyon or Barrancas del Cobra – a series of canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon.
1 month in Oaxaca. A beautiful city that definitely worth a visit.
Couple weeks in Culliacan, Palenque, San Cristobal de la Casas.
Slow travel along the western side of Mexico. ( slow travel = days in a variety of town)
Slow travel along the eastern side – Yucatan, and Tobasco area – the location of most of Mexico's oil rigs.
The places I would go back to:
Creel – a great base for exploring the Copper Canyon
Chihuahua – I wasn't in the mood for a big city, so I just stayed a night. But, it's got a lot of history and its the beginning of the Copper Canyon on the eastern side.
El Fuerte – the beginning of the Copper Canyon on the western side. Spent a night, but it's got history and plant of things to do around the area.
Guachochi – the beginning of the Copper Canyon if your coming up from the south. Nice little town with lots to do.
Hidalgo Del Parral – Poncho Villas favorite town in Mexico, until he got assassinated there. Lots of history and interesting area to tour.
If you're this close to the Copper Canyon when visiting these towns, don't miss the chance to take the train through the Copper Canyon. The only passenger train in Mexico, it's worth every dime spent and the time to take the train ride.
It is the most remote part of Mexico. If you can time it right, take the trip during the rainy season – you'll see so many waterfalls, you'd think they were the most common thing on earth!
Oaxaca – lots of history and things to do.
San Cristobal de Las Casas – again, lots of history and plenty to do in the area.
Campeche – an old town built around a Spanish fort. Lots of history. If you're into photography, the bay's got a lot of abandoned boats that's great for photography.
Merida – old town, not that far from Cancun History, bird watching in a couple spots. Good area for things to do and see.
Palenque – Mayan ruins is what's it's close to. But if you go to this town, be sure and stop by the Aluxes Ecoparque – a great place for birds, alligators, monkeys and more birds!
If you want beaches and tourists, these are places to go:
Cancun, Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Acapulco, Puerto Ángel (They are in the process of trying to build this up for a major tourist attraction), and Puerto Vallarta -probably the most "western" town in Mexico. Hotels have most of the beaches blocked and you'd never know you were in Mexico if you din't leave the town.
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I've traveled around for over 18 months and have not had any problems.
I have driven around in a 1998 for Explorer Sport and have been in places not to many foreigners go. All I've met are kind hearted people, working for a living.
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I do have a car, computer and an expensive camera. But, I limit the "visual" on the camera and the computer. No need tempting people with an easy robbery.
Mexico's really a great place to visit.
As I previously mentioned, whatever your searching for on a vacation – beaches, history, bird watching or nature – Mexico has it all.
The friendly people are just the icing on a wonderful "cake".
So, that's my take on what I've seen of Mexico.
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Questions about where to go?
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