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Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems [Max`s Pot] is a non-profit education, demonstration, and research organization with over 70 years combined experience in the application of appropriate technologies and sustainable design practices to meet the needs of a broad range of users, from individual home builders to regional planning and natural resource agencies.
CMPBS` services reflect a multi-faceted, collaborative design approach and a commitment to move design and building professionals towards sustainable practices. Services for public and private clients include building and master planning design, lectures, policy initiatives such as green builder programs, and tools for green specification such as Environmental/Economic baselining and LEEDtm project management.
CMPBS undertakes building design and pursues it in a manner consistent with our eco-balance and life cycle design approaches, using an open-building system developed by the center. The objective is to balance space use and, in particular, the accompanying resource use internal to a building with the external land area required to maintain equilibrium between life cycle stages.
CMPBS has engaged in projects anticipating future environmental, economic, and social challenges associated with the built environment. Past projects range from international collaboration in China and Mexico to regionally oriented architecture and consulting in Texas. We have worked with public and private clients who share our commitment to advance the approaches, methods, and materials used to optimize each project`s environmental performance.
CMPBS` services reflect a multi-faceted, collaborative design approach and a commitment to move design and building professionals towards sustainable practices. Services for public and private clients include building and master planning design, lectures, policy initiatives such as green builder programs, and tools for green specification such as Environmental/Economic baselining and LEEDtm project management.
CMPBS undertakes building design and pursues it in a manner consistent with our eco-balance and life cycle design approaches, using an open-building system developed by the center. The objective is to balance space use and, in particular, the accompanying resource use internal to a building with the external land area required to maintain equilibrium between life cycle stages.
CMPBS has engaged in projects anticipating future environmental, economic, and social challenges associated with the built environment. Past projects range from international collaboration in China and Mexico to regionally oriented architecture and consulting in Texas. We have worked with public and private clients who share our commitment to advance the approaches, methods, and materials used to optimize each project`s environmental performance.
Green, Smart and Sustainable Stakeholder Education and Training is the natural outgrowth of three years of research, community organizing, network building, and over one hundred small group meetings, focus sessions, confe rences, workshops, and seminars produced by dozens of stakeholders in the BOOST network. Our activities have been featured in newspapers, magazines, program books, radio, and on the internet and the expectations and demand for producing more focused, leading-edge, and geographically broader programming have lead us to this point.
Our 2007-08 activities have include:
¨ Community outreach programming that brought in over 1,000 curiosity and residency seekers to the newly renovated historic, sustainable design Broad Street Bank mixed-use multifamily apartment complex in New Jersey’s capital, Trenton (NJ)
¨ Community Building Forum #3 (January 20, 2007)with over 100 in attendance and media coverage) featuring seven presenters of nearly three dozen programs for local residents to take advantage of regarding job, career, housing, education, cultural, and business options and opportunities in the Trenton region;
¨ Workshop by Bob Blakeman for P. S. & S. Keyspan on “Current Best Practices in Green Building;
¨ Workshop by John Cusack for NJHEPS on “Leadership by Example: Creating Sustainable College Campuses”;
¨ (2) workshops by Mel Leipzig for Mercer County Community College on the “Role of Arts and Artists in Revitalizing Older American Urban Centers;
¨ Workshop by Terri Jover for New Jersey Future on “How Citizens can Measure Smart Growth Using NJF’s Municipal Smart Growth Scorecard”;
¨ (3) workshops by Greg Jones for USA Closers on “Smart Credit Building: How to Development Personal, Business, and Community Credit”;
¨ (2) workshops by Angelica Redpath-Perez for Green Design Now on “How Everyday Citizens can ‘Green-up’ their Home and Offices”;
¨ (2) workshops by Robert Estock for MCCC on “Continuing Education and Training Options and Opportunities at Community Colleges”;
¨ (4) public talks/Q & A by Richard Libbey for Bayville H o ldings LLC – the developer of the newly renovated historic green Broad Street Bank Building – on “Real-Time Experiences on Adaptive Reuse Green Building: Hidden Assets and Challenges” – several n ewspaper articles generated and presentation for NJHEPS (2007) created;
¨ (2) focus sessions with Princeton Area Community Foundation on behalf of Atlantic Philanthropies “Community Experience Partnership: Engaging Older Americans for Civic Good” at two Trenton sites;
¨ (5) workshops by Tim Razzaq for BOOST on “Three Major Challenges to Community Benefits: Leadership Matters” in Asbury Park (NJ) and several Trenton-Mercer locations;
¨ (6) workshops, “Invitation to Civics Education” in association with The Civic Formation Inc.; and
¨ (12) forums featuring (MCCC) Professor Alvyn Haywood’s Documentary Viewings & Community Discussion Series timely and relevant issues of import at Classics Used and Rare Books.
This year, we are building on these relatio n sh ips and forum-production activities by expanding both our network of partners and geographic reach. Sundance TV Channel, Rutgers University’s Leading Institute, GreenWorks Studio, New Jersey and C ompany Magazine, and five New Jersey Community Colleges are a few of our new associates as we move from our Trenton-Mercer base into five major regions throughout the Garden State.
We are committed to bring residents of the Tri-State area and our potential sponsors and opportunity to grow their personal, organizational, and business capacities to engage effectively in the new and emerging eco-economy and related industries and are inviting you to be a part of our efforts.
Interested sponsors should contact Tim Razzaq @ timrazzaq@comcast.net to recieved a sponsorship inquiry letter.