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Salmon Creek Falls Environmental Center 2008 – Harmony Union School District
	The Salmon Creek Environmental Center provides For 18 months, the design team met weekly and conducted 3 design charrettes in the process with a core design committee. The integrated design team was made up of members from the community, members of several local environmental organizations, members of the school staff, parents as well as ten 5th and 6th grade students from the school  (The toughest questions often came from the students).  We also included six Sonoma State University students, one of which was the project facilitator who had the vision, lead the team throughout the 6-year process and put together the funding.  The SSU students made this their project, which had to be based on LEED, to graduate from the first "Green Building Professional Certificate" program in the US. The entire design was based on the LEED NC 2.1 with Platinum as the goal early on in the process.  They were seeking gorgeous architecture in a LEED building, open to the public that would demonstrate green building principals.  Hoping it would inspire those who had the opportunity to experience its cutting edge beauty and incorporate the concepts into their own lives.  Something they saw as unique to the world. The building was conceived to serve several critical needs and the funding was secured from the California Coastal Conservancy in March of 2003. The school needed an enclosed cafeteria when it was forced to sell one of its campuses due to declining enrollment and a mid sized meeting space. The ecological community needed a central command post, library and gathering place. The local community needed a small performance and theatrical venue that could seat 100. The main cafeteria is crescent shaped to make maximum use of its southern orientation for passive solar heating. The thermal mass is concrete with fly ash throughout and the floors incorporate six individual zones of comfortable clean radiant heat. Deep overhangs and a light shelf direct this sunlight either in or out of the building depending on the time of year and heating needs. A wall of glass connects the magnificent surroundings of the schools one-acre garden including a straw bale greenhouse, the wetlands and a meadow with towering redwoods in the distance, to the inside.  It is located on a 50-acre campus, which had existing building. Its location on this 50-acre school campus made it ideally suited as a teaching tool. The building uses a passive solar strategy to keep energy use to a minimum. (It exceeds Title 24 by more than 50%) Correct solar orientation of the building provides warming sun in the winter while keeping it out in the hot summer months. Extra levels of insulation reduce energy use and natural day lighting keeps the energy load from lighting to a minimum. Recycled steel is used for much of the framing while FSC certified wood is used for the wood structural elements. Nearly every finish material, water fixture, lighting control systems, solar tubes, and roofing materials are cutting edge. Each product was researched for years and has been donated by the various venders to demonstrate their products to the public. Tours and a take away brochure will be available to the public. The goal for the building is net zero energy and water use. A 30-kilowatt solar installation not only provides all the energy the building needs, it also significantly reduces the energy use of the other buildings on site. Storm water is directed into a bio-swale and then into a wet lands on site, allowing the rainwater to soak into the earth. The water for the building is provided by a well on site. Essentially the water use and recycling is a closed cycle with no water needing to be added and no water leaving the site. In the end, the project combines the best ideas in sustainable design with an organic form that echoes the green principals that it was founded upon.
		SCOE Community School 2008 - Sonoma County Office of Education
			Geyserville Elementary Modernizations 2008 – Geyserville Unified School District

	Geyserville Education Park Modernizations 2008 – Geyserville Unified School District
	Salmon Creek Solar Project 2006 – Harmony Union School District
	Lagunitas Gymnasium 2007 – Lagunitas School District
		Roseland Library 2008 - Sonoma County Office of Education
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McKinley Pre-School
2003 - Sonoma County Office of Education

Coleman Elementary School *
2001 - 2002 -- San Rafael City Schools

Demolition of an existing 30,000 sq. foot elementary school and construction of a new replacement school.

Estimated final construction cost $6M. Approximately half of the buildings are modular construction. This project is currently in design.

PSA Skid Building
2002 - Daly City Department of Water and Wastewater Resources

Total Project Budget

$45,000

Construction

$40,000

Re-roofing and repair of water intrusion damage to roof structure. This project is currently in design.

Reservoir 6B Pump Station
2002 - Daly City Department of Water and Wastewater Resources

Total Project Budget

$55,000

Construction

$50,000

Re-roofing and replcement of roof assembly damaged by water intrusion. This project is currently in design.

Sunset Ridge Elementary *
1999 - 2001 -- Laguna Salada USD

Renovation and seismic retrofit of an existing 30,000 sf school and construction of 30,000 sf of additional classrooms and a multi-use room. Total construction cost $9.6M. Construction completed Sept. 2001.

Curved covered walkways at
Sunset Ridge Elementary

	Ocean View in the distance at Sunset Ridge Elementary

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	Persinger Architects and Associates 2009