Friday, March 11, 2011

Spring Break oh yeah!

Now that Spring Break is getting closer I went to go see my mentor and say goodbye cause I´m not going see her for a week, so we caught up with all the conversing about how my project is advancing. We concluded that the only big goal for this spring break was to go and find the TD Bank that is supposed to be in Ft. Lauderdale, but the webpage where I found the information about the building doesn’t say the exact address! … so that is going to be  one of my adventures this Spring Break, I already told Daniel we are going on a building hunt. The building, from what I read, is pretty well thought out, I would like to go see it and maybe someone knows about the building J
According to the Sun Sentinel the building is in:
TD Bank builds first branch to run on sun energy
February 23, 2011|By Doreen Hemlock, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
TD Bank is building a new branch in Fort Lauderdale that can supply all its own energy, reportedly the first bank building in the country that will not need to draw from the electric network and can be registered as "net-zero."
The branch at 665 NW 62nd Street will be powered by the sun energy captured in nearly 400 solar panels. It also is designed to be energy-efficient and meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED standards at the platinum level, the highest level of certification.

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Yeah lets see if its true... i´ll let you know.

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