Sustainable building holders and d...

Sustainable building holders and designers practice what they preach

Peter Pfeiffer isn't particularly comfortable with the space of times "sustainable" or "green" as commonly applied to design and construction manners

"Many of these `green' design modes are just common sense" says Pfeiffer, president of Barley + Pfeiffer Architects in Austin, Texas. For example, he explains, "You don't place on a dark-colored vault in the South because it musters heat; you orient the building to the prevailing uproars and away from the day-star so you can take