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Intensive maintenance is not always bad. Use of labor can be positive. It is important to plan for enough maintenance. Think about buildings aging gracefully. Accept that some parts will age faster than others. Whatever the design, it should be able to incorporate and make changes in wiring, as that is likely to need future changes. Systems have lifetimes and will need replacement, even exterior building skin. Make sure systems are sufficiently independent from each other. We should be looking at the region’s long term change in temperature, sky dome light, and change in actual amount of rain water. We can predict a range and have the building respond to it. Rightsizing. Do buildings need to be grand? Do we need to plan for growth? It’s important to set the bar very high. Humble materials, low maintenance, cost benefit ratios, etc. High bar generates excitement and therefore a team of excited community members where the city could really come together about this. Knowing the fiscally conservative nature of the city with bond measures, make sure that the structures are designed in a way that they can be developed to add more sustainability down the road when possible. Consideration should be given to create a flexible building for assembling or dissembling so we don’t end up in the same situation we have right now with completely destroying the structure. 100 year horizon may be too long. Maybe a 50 year building is better and we should expect to take it apart and rebuild in another way. We may be looking at a new model of sustainability in 50 years. The Courthouse does not seem adaptable. Rectangles are more adaptable. Design the building so that it could be converted into housing. You will need straight elements to do this. Need to create a building the community cares about and is worth saving. The building needs to be built in a flexible way to adapt to weather changes. Need proper orientation for systems and responsive bones. How are we using the facility now and how can we use it differently beyond autos? My area of interest is the sense of place and feeling connected. History is important for sense of place. Looking back and seeing where we were gives us humility of how much we thought we knew. The building should be designed with sustainable maintenance practices in mind. This includes ideas from materials to ergonomic workspace for custodial staff. Cost of construction is small compared to running the building over time (staff, energy, maintenance, etc.). Talk with maintenance people to inform the design. The simpler the building, the easier to maintain. Build things that are easy to clean. For example, no tall towers. Use tested materials that lend themselves to recycling and to long term maintenance. Don’t opt for cheapest systems n the final cost cutting stages of project or we will pay way more in maintenance and repair.