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Morrison-Bell Parking Garage
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Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:36 pmby Bergermeister
Anybody know how tall the new parking garage will be? Things sure look nice when you're able to look across campus from Moody and Ford. Looks like their leaving the Lambda Chi trees and at least a little green space across from Moody. Any timeline on upgrades to the soccer stadium?
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Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:46 pmby smu diamond m
No more than 35 ft tall. UP/HP city ordinance, don't ya know!?
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Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:54 pmby Bergermeister
I do now.
Posted:
Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:44 pmby Ponymon
Maybe they should put some levels below ground to increase the parking capacity.
Posted:
Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:11 pmby abezontar
The large hole in the ground would indicate that they did indeed think of that.
Posted:
Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:17 pmby RE Tycoon
abezontar wrote:The large hole in the ground would indicate that they did indeed think of that.
ha
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:36 amby smu diamond m
A few interesting [engineering] things about it...
It will contain electric car charging stations, in accordance with LEED specifications in order to help the Embry building attain a higher certification standard. It is also supposed to have a rather large capacity; much larger than Moody and/or Airline Garages. Since it is [supposedly] being built to LEED standards, it will also use a lot of local/regional materials and has to maintain a few other goofy standards for drainage/irrigation/etc.
http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19
Meanwhile...I should build an electric car. I don't care how efficient it is, as long as it'll make it to campus and back so SMU can foot my travel expenses.
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:20 amby DiamondM75
Plug it in, plug it in.
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Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:48 pmby MrMustang1965
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Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:41 pmby DiamondM75
MrMustang1965 wrote:
And now for today's trivia question.
What is this characters name?
The winner will be showing his/her age.
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:48 pmby mrydel
Isn't that Ready Kilowatt?
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:18 pmby PK
And we have a winner!!!! Damn, you must be almost as old as me.
Posted:
Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:21 pmby mrydel
PK wrote:And we have a winner!!!! Damn, you must be almost as old as me.
I could probably be your father. And if you were born in Dallas in the late 60's, I might be.
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Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:38 pmby couch 'em
smu diamond m wrote:A few interesting [engineering] things about it...
It will contain electric car charging stations, in accordance with LEED specifications in order to help the Embry building attain a higher certification standard. It is also supposed to have a rather large capacity; much larger than Moody and/or Airline Garages. Since it is [supposedly] being built to LEED standards, it will also use a lot of local/regional materials and has to maintain a few other goofy standards for drainage/irrigation/etc.
http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19Meanwhile...I should build an electric car. I don't care how efficient it is, as long as it'll make it to campus and back so SMU can foot my travel expenses.
Since there are no electric cars, what kind of charging station are they putting in? 120V, 208V etc? More money wasted on meaningless LEED points. Any idea what level (gold, silver, etc) they are trying to build this structure?
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Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:00 amby smu diamond m
For the record, I knew that was Ready Kilowatt. I have a tie-pin and cufflink set.
The actual parking garage will not be attaining LEED certification, but attributes of the parking garage will contribute to the rating for the Embry Building. The Embry building (we'll know for sure in August) is on par for the gold standard. I'm not so sure which things from LEED they have to adhere to in the construction, since the actual parking facility isn't a registered project. My guess is the charging stations will be 240V 3-phase.