[Greenbuilding] How ya gonna keep them down on the farm when they've been to Orlando ?

George J. Nesbitt george at houseisasystem.com
Fri Feb 17 15:46:20 CST 2012


John can't only be 22 years old, 20 years ago we were in Guelph Ontario 
building an all wood bridge together.

On 2/17/2012 1:26 PM, RT wrote:
> Since I don't think that it's been mentioned here yet, the following 
> from the GSBN list
>
>         http://sustainablesources.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/GSBN
>
>
> "Life-time achievement" makes it sound like WatJohn is an old geezer 
> approaching that point in life where it's time to be put out to 
> pasture, where in fact the reality is, as Duck Foo'd (aka Mark 
> Piepkorn, a former List Momma of this List) put it, WatJohn looks to 
> be barely 22 years of age.
>
>
> Congratulations and hearty whacks on the back of course to the 
> Listowel Truth-Seeking Missile but along with this award of course 
> comes the worry (to me at least) that the Murrican universities and 
> orgs with very deep pockets are going to be lining up with 
> $even-figure appeasements to coerce WatJohn to abandon Waterloo and 
> head south of the 49th.
>
>>> On 17/02/2012, at 7:57 AM, Habib John Gonzalez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Press Release February 13, 2012 from the National Consortium of
>>>> Housing Research Centers (NCHRC)
>>>>
>>>> "John Straube, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and
>>>> Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo has
>>>> received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Building Science
>>>> Education from the National Consortium of Housing Research Centers
>>>> (NCHRC). Straube received the award as part of the Energy Value in
>>>> Housing Awards event at the International Builders Show in Orlando
>>>> on February 8, 2012. Cornell Professor Joseph Laquatra, NCHRC
>>>> Chair, said of Straube when he presented him with the award, "John
>>>> has been deeply involved in the areas of building enclosure design,
>>>> moisture physics, and whole building performance as a researcher,
>>>> educator, and consultant. Dr. Straube is co-author of the 2005
>>>> book, Building Science for Building Enclosures. His work in
>>>> teaching building science is exemplary and is preparing a
>>>> generation of engineers to produce buildings that are energy
>>>> efficient, healthy, comfortable, and durable."
>>>> The Lifetime Achievement Award in Building Science Education is a
>>>> joint effort between the NCHRC and the U.S. Department of Energy to
>>>> advance the state of building science curricula across the United
>>>> States and Canada."
>>>>
>>>> Well done and well deserved,
>>>>
>>>> Habib
>>>> *****************************************
>>>> SUSTAINABLEWORKS
>>>> Habib John L Gonzalez
>>>> RR#1, S-4, C-12
>>>> Crescent Valley, BC
>>>> Canada V0G 1H0
>>>> www.sustainableworks.ca
>>>> *****************************************
>>>>
>>>> "Better the kindness of imperfection than perfection without
>>>> kindness"
>
>


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