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Benjamin Kasdan

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Benjamin Kasdan, AIA and LEED AP, has been involved in the design and planning of a wide variety of real estate projects located throughout California, the East Coast and internationally for nearly a decade. As a Project Designer with KTGY Group, Inc., Kasdan’s primary focus is the sustainable design of multifamily, mixed-use, and urban infill housing developments. His experience includes affordable housing, market-rate apartments and condominiums, townhomes and commercial buildings. The love of design and giving back has inspired him to participate in such events as CANstruction design/build competition, which serves as a canned food drive to support the area's food bank, and the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) Built Environment Education Program (BEEP), where architects teach local elementary school students about architecture and urban planning. Kasdan graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture, with Honors, from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and is a licensed architect in California. For more information, visit www.ktgy.com, or contact him at 949-851-2133 or bkasdan@ktgy.com.

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How Would You Certify?
October 26th, 2011

After writing a handful of these sustainable architecture blog posts, one of my colleagues noticed that so far I have been somewhat critical of the existing sustainable certification systems and asked me what I would do differently. Not that I plan to create my own certifying organization anytime soon; but this is how I would reorganize the LEED system, if it really was, in fact, up to me.

Education, Front Page - Blogger Network, Green, Home
Sustainable Communities Require Involvement
September 19th, 2011

In honor of Park(ing) Day, which is “an annual worldwide event that invites citizens everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good,” I wanted to address the correlation between sustainable development and community involvement.

Architecture, Charity, Front Page - Blogger Network, Green, Home
Good Design is Sustainable
August 16th, 2011

Sustainability should not merely be defined by certification or the use of one sustainable strategy or feature. It is not only about energy efficiency, or recycled content, or even a thorough life cycle analysis. Instead, it should be the culmination of a well-designed building.

Architecture, Front Page - Blogger Network, Green, Materials
What is certification worth?
July 12th, 2011

In an attempt to answer my own implied question about whether LEED certification actually translates to an increase in rents in the real world, I gathered some data in an anecdotal survey of a handful of projects nearby.

Architecture, Business, Front Page - Blogger Network, Green, Housing Data, Marketing
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Circle of Life-Cycle
July 8th, 2011

We as architects/designers/builders usually know about the superficial sustainable features of products and systems being specified and installed into our buildings (features such as energy efficiency, recycled content, prevalence of VOCs, Energy Star® or similar “green” labels, etc.), but that information really only scratches the surface of the environmental impact of those products and systems

Architecture, Front Page - Blogger Network, Green, Real Estate
Less (paper) is more
June 8th, 2011

Do we really need all those plans and blueprints to be printed on paper?

Business, Front Page - Blogger Network, Green
How ‘sustainable’ is sustainability?
May 10th, 2011

Perhaps some projects would be more sustainable to have not been built at all.

Architecture, Front Page - Blogger Network, Finance, Green, Housing Data, Multifamily
Holistic sustainability
April 14th, 2011

Once the indie mantra of architecture students and sole practitioners, sustainability is now wholeheartedly mainstream.

Architecture, Green