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Posted on Aug 27, 2014 in GreenBy3 Blog, GreenBy3 News

Completion of Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce Catalyst Center

  On Thursday, August 21st, the Catalyst Center at the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce made its official debut to a crowd of over 200. The week before the grand opening, our GreenBy3 team was busy refining all the individual elements into the cohesive final design.  The purpose of the Catalyst Center – to create a unique, inspiring space that caters to the needs of entrepreneurs and the goals of the Chamber of Commerce – was the guiding vision for the design and execution of the project, and our team has stuck closely to that from start to finish. The results are a space that our clients love, that their clients love, and of which we are proud.  Sustainability is one of the guiding principles in GreenBy3’s business model and it is something we bring to all of our client projects, often in the form of custom furniture and accent pieces made from lovingly reclaimed materials. For the Catalyst Center, our team built a 12’x4′ table out of maple flooring that we reclaimed from the Cigar Factory; we also...

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Posted on Oct 11, 2013 in GreenBy3 Blog, GreenBy3 Stuff

Donated Brick Make Crisis Ministries Project Greener

Good progress is being made on Crisis Ministries new facility. When finished, it will be a 30,000-square-foot building including an emergency dorm for men, a dorm for Veterans, a clinic, a dental room, a commercial kitchen and dining hall, a donation center, counseling offices, and a conference room. The building has been designed with energy efficiency and sustainability in mind. It incorporates energy efficient lighting and HVAC units as well as plenty of windows to make use of  natural light. This week we saw bricks forming columns around what will be the dining hall. But these aren’t just any bricks. Made by CalStar Products, a company based in Wisconsin, they are manufactured from fly ash with up to 37% recycled content in a process that uses up to 81% less energy and emits up to 84% less CO2. GreenBy3 secured a commitment from CalStar to donate all of the brick for the building’s exterior. “We are thrilled to be a part of the Crisis Ministries project – and a...

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Posted on Jul 11, 2013 in GreenBy3 Blog, GreenBy3 News

Biz611 Opens In Hendersonville

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. – Biz611, a first-of-its-kind sustainable building in Hendersonville, is now open. The building was designed as a business incubator to help cultivate young startups focused on helping the environment and developing software. GreenBy3, a company that acts as an onsite representative for its clients on construction projects, oversaw the construction of Biz611. Biz611 (pronounced Biz Six Eleven) is located at 611 N. Church St. in downtown Hendersonville. It incorporates a long list of sustainable practices in the way it was built and in the way it’s designed to operate. The hope is that Biz611 will serve to educate the tenants, as well as the community, on sustainable building and operating practices. The 9,500-square-foot building maximizes natural light, generates solar energy and captures water for use by way of an inverted roof and cistern. It also features a “living wall,” or a vertical green wall. Biz611 also has displays and readouts throughout to monitor the building’s performance, allowing tenants to track their impact on the building’s energy consumption. The...

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Posted on Jun 26, 2013 in GreenBy3 Blog, GreenBy3 Stuff

Earthquake Drains Installed at Crisis Ministries’ Job Site

1,400 earthquake drains are being installed into the ground where Crisis Ministries’ new 30,000-square-foot men’s shelter and soup kitchen will be built.   Earthquake drains are used to mitigate the hazards associated with liquefaction – a process that occurs during seismic activity where water fills in the spaces between individual soil particles and causes the ground to become extremely loose and unstable. The drains are inserted into the ground using a heavy-gauge steel insertion mandrel which vibrates during ground penetration. As the mandrel forces the drainage tubes into the ground the granular soils surrounding the tubes are compacted. Furthermore, these drains open up drainage paths within soil layers and strengthen potentially weak or unstable areas within the soil. The earthquake drains will ultimately reduce the risk of structural damage caused by an...

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