Building Industry Magazine - October 2011 - (Page 10)

NewsBeat Senior Care Facility Opens in Kailua Wilson Homecare opened a new senior living facility in Kailua in July. Construction on Wilson Senior Living Kailua began in 2009. The general contractor for the $6 million project was Brett Hill Construction and the architects were KHMA and Richard McCarty. The three-story facility has 11,000 square feet of common living space, and there are 19 furnished rooms on two floors. Occupancy began in September. According to Wilson Homecare, the community areas include a spa/ salon, reading area, two family rooms, kitchen, dining, outside patios, gardening areas, and numerous places in the home to play cards, be creative with crafts, exercise or just talk story. “Brett Hill Construction and team were amazing to work with in building this special home for our kupuna,” says Shelley Wilson, president of Wilson Homecare. Wilson says the inspiration for the facility came from Dr. Bill Thomas, who wrote “A Life Worth Living.” “Dr. Thomas’ philosophies in The new Wilson Senior Living Kailua includes two family rooms and other public areas. caring for the aging are based on simple core values of providing someone a true home setting with a purposeful life,” says Wilson. “We worked with one of the architects, Richard McCarty, that designed homes in Mississippi with Dr. Thomas’ principles being practiced. The environment changed the lives of the seniors completely. Everyone truly wants to age at home. We think we’ve developed a model to provide the loving, nurturing home environment with the care component to support aging seniors while providing a purposeful life that everyone deserves to have.” Wilson continues: “The Wilson Homecare team is an amazing group that really carried the project through until the end. The love and nurturing you feel when you walk through the front door is from them; the dedication and steadfast commitment from people that care about our community and the aging kupuna that need our help. That’s the magic ingredient. We hope the community will realize there are wonderful ways to care for our seniors, in environments we would all want to live out our golden years in, with the dignity and respect we all deserve to have and hold onto.” Hagadone Continues Green Efforts Hagadone Printing Co. says it is continuing its commitment to environmentally friendly printing by installing a load-side feed-in tariff photovoltaic (PV) system atop its warehouse. The project follows an energy retrofit the firm has undergone over the past several years. The 1,408-panel, 433.7 kilowatts (kW) array will spread across 25,000 square feet of existing roof space at Hagadone’s building to power a quarter of the energy used by its administrative and printing operations. It is estimated to produce enough energy to prevent more than 540 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere and preserve 115 acres of forest annually. The $2.7 million system being installed by RevoluSun was expected to be operational in September. It is estimated to pay for itself in about six years and save Hagadone more than $160,000 in electricity costs in the first year alone. Before this, Hagadone underwent a state-of-the art energy retrofit that included switching to a new type of energy-efficient, frictionless chiller, a complete super T8 lighting retrofit, and a building energy control system. These energy retrofits are expected to pay for themselves within four years of use. The firm also recently launched a partnership with natureOffice USA to carbon offset its printing projects, partnering with Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods to restore a 10 | Building industry | OCTOBER 2011 historic koa forest on the Hamakua Coast, and continues other various environmental programs, such as free paper and phone book recycling. With these combined efforts, Hagadone’s savings of resources this year alone total: 60,000 trees, 44.4 million gallons of water, 59,789 BTUs (British Thermal Units), 3.8 million metric tons of solid waste and 11.8 million tons of greenhouse gases “The impact of our industryleading ecological initiatives is real and significant,” says Clinton Schroeder, president of Hagadone. “We are proud to showcase how a variety of different solutions can reduce our impact on the environment and help local communities.”

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Building Industry Magazine - October 2011

Cover October, 2011
Contents
Datebook
Aloha’s Convenience Store of the Future
BIA Expo Hits “Green” Mark
Construction Begins on Pilot Biomass Refinery
Campbell Helps West Oahu Schools
Senior Care Facility Opens in Kailua
Hawaiian Dredging to Build $52M BEQ
Contracts Awarded
Roofing
Sunetric Completes FIT PV Project
Best Practices
Pacific Building Trade Expo Program
Low Bids
Infrastructure
Spotlight on Success: New Youth Center, KMCBH
School Construction
New Products
News Makers

Building Industry Magazine - October 2011