A Catalogue Of Sustainable Achievements
Yo ho ho!
Update city for me this week. Thought I might fill you all in on how the green fire station next door is coming along.
What started out as this:
Has turned into this:
Construction is moving swiftly on this baby. Here is a quick walk around:
I’ll be trying to score an interview with the Fire Chief soon, so stay tuned for future updates!
Happy Friday peeps!
I just read an article in our local newspaper, Orlando Sentinel that made my day. The City of Orlando is building a new headquarters for the fire department. New facilities for our hard-working firefighters are great, but what tickled me is that they are building it using eco-friendly designs.
(Oh yeah, that’s a green roof!)I’ll let the writer, Mark Schlueb, explain:
“Like four smaller fire stations opened since last year in distant parts of the city, the new downtown station has been designed according to environmentally friendly building standards.
The concrete torn up from the old downtown bus station will be crushed and reused for the new station. Extra insulation, including traditional insulation in the walls and a roof partially covered with grass, will reduce heating and cooling costs. To cut operational costs further, architects included high-efficiency air-conditioning systems, low-flow plumbing fixtures and sensors that turn off a room’s lights when no one is present.
‘We get more bang for our buck when we build in that fashion,’ Mayor Buddy Dyer said.”
I love that last quote. What a practical view to building more effectively and efficiently. The building was designed to achieve the “silver” certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
And the best part? I can watch the building rise up from my own office window:
Happy Days,
Spoon
Check out this little stainless steel beauty!
This here is the Halligan Bar. Good for prying, lifting, wedging, smashing, hooking, basically any verb ending in “ing.” Beautiful to gaze upon, and as useful as they come, a Halligan Bar is a true necessity for any empowered doer and maker. Hang one on your wall, impress your friends.
Here’s the def, from wikipedia:
“A Halligan bar (also called a Halligan tool) is a special tool commonly used in the fire and rescue service. It was designed by and named after Hugh Halligan, a First Deputy Fire Chief in the New York City Fire Department, in 1948, based upon the well known Kelly tool.[1] The Halligan is a multipurpose tool for prying, twisting, punching, or striking. It consists of a claw (or fork), a blade (wedge or adze), and a tapered pick, which is especially useful in quickly forcing open many types of locked doors. Either the adze end or fork end of the tool can be used to break through the latch of a swinging door by forcing the tool between the door and doorjamb and prying the two apart, striking it with another Halligan, a Denver tool or a flat-head axe. Using a K-tool and the adz end, a lock cylinder can easily be pulled. There are many other uses of the Halligan tool, including vehicle rescue and opening of walls.
A particularly useful variant of the Halligan has a heavy sliding collar on the shaft. Once the prying end of the tool is wedged into position, the sliding ‘hammer’ is used to force the wedge, allowing for proper seating, prior to prying. The adz end is also assisted by using the sliding hammer to generate forced traction on a hooked cylinder.”
The tools the good guys use!
Fun.
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