http://www.theknipfingreport.com Discover what it takes to get a green job done right! Thu, 21 May 2009 15:59:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tuesday April, 21 2009 marks the day of completion of the National Institute of Health Green Roof  - the final project I managed with Furbish Company.  I received many lessons from the deconstruction and construction of this roof.  Some of the greatest lessons I received was captured in my blog  ... http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/04/23/completion-of-the-nih-green-roof/ New Mexico is a "Hot Bed" for the emerging Green Economy.  It's a garden bed nurturing the seeds of change to fruition.  I have been on a job search for five months in the Land of Enchantment, and during this time I have found a myriad of self employed people ... http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/04/12/new-mexico-a-hot-bed-for-the-emerging-green-economy/ I love plaster!  I love the fluid motion of the application process and I love the dance that is created when I trowel the mud on the wall.  I view a large open wall as a giant canvas screaming for the warming and softening plaster material. During the Lucky's warehouse project, Furbish ... http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/04/05/luckys-warehouse-natural-clay-plaster-project/ I work in the field of construction and I am a site supervisor with Furbish Company (a small but rapidly growing sub-contractor installing Green Roofs and Living Wall systems).  One habit I have adopted and developed is the state of being the "go to" guy to get something done.  At ... http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/03/28/nobody-needs-a-super-hero/ The green roof at the National Institute of Health has been a rather intense roof for us.  For starters, we need to walk through metal detectors, give our ID's and get badged. Then our vehicles are swabbed for bomb residue and sniffed by dogs everyday just to get on campus.  ... http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/03/24/the-national-institute-of-health-green-roof-11-08-present-site-supervisor/ The Capital One Green Roof, aka "the bullet roof," was a straight forward green roof.  It had a simple layout, straight forward application and a low number of pieces.  The only issues we needed to be conscious of were the roof load capacity and water drainage (this roof could only ... http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/03/23/capital-one-green-roof-site-supervisor-10-08/ "What a Project!" The Seale Residence Retaining Wall was  200 feet long, 8 feet high, and constructed with "Hercules" modular cement blocks of weights ranging from 210 lbs. -  65 lbs.  The retaining wall was a water front construction on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, and because of the environmental ... http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/03/23/the-seale-residence-retaining-wall-site-supervisor-11109-22509/ http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/03/18/alanis-for-earth-hour-2009/ Heathcote Community Strawbale project  Spring 2006 - Summer 2007 The Heathcote Community straw bale project was an exciting and challenging job for me.  I was hired into the project with no experience or building skills, yet I had a tremendous amount of eagerness to learn.  I started by assisting the two ... http://www.theknipfingreport.com/2009/03/14/heathcote-community-strawbale-project/