Civano, the Book

1996 – 7/24 COMMUNITTY OF CVIANO, L.L.C. Pays $2,600,000 for 820 acres of State Land. ASVC becomes The Civano Institute. State grants $300,000 for a Civano Builder’s Program.

The rest is History

 

Inside the Civano Project: A Case Study of Large-Scale Sustainable Neighborhood Development, McGraw Hill (GreenSource Books)

 

This book is now available.

 

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Author: C Alan Nichols, Jason A Laros

Format: Hardcover

Copyright: 2009

 

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A first-hand accounts of all aspects involved in creating a sustainable neighborhood development.

 

This new GreenSource book offers a complete look at Civano, the nation's largest sustainable mixed-use community located in the southeast part of Tucson, Arizona. Civano is comprised of four neighborhoods with the capacity to house over 2,600 families.

 

Inside the Civano Project covers the planning, funding, building, and management of this development which integrates residential communities with shopping, workplace, school, and civic facilities, as well as parks and natural open spaces. The book discusses the zoning and building code guidelines, sustainable building materials, energy standards, and water conservation technologies that make Civano ahead of its time.

The USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) is still developing the guidelines for LEED-Neighborhood Development - Civano has already put those proposed guidelines into practice.

Civano has achieved 60 percent reduction of heating and cooling energy and 55 percent reduction in potable water usage.

Covers the Civano IMPACT (Integrated Method of Performance and Cost Tracking).

About the Authors

C. Alan Nichols PE LEED AP (Tucson, AZ) established Al Nichols Engineering in 1995. As a member of the Tucson Metropolitan Energy Commission, he was instrumental in writing the sustainable energy standard (SES) for Civano.

Jason A. Laros (Tucson, AZ), is Project Manager with Al Nichols Engineering.

 

 

Table of contents

Ch 1. A Seed is Planted—The Early Stages of Land Planning

Ch 2. Water and Fertilizer—Funding the Public & Private Project

Ch 3. Guiding Growth—Master Planning and Technical Analysis

Ch 4. Impacts and Adjustments—The Civano IMPACT (Integrated Method of Performance and Cost Tracking)

Ch 5. Germination—How the Land was Purchased

Ch 6. Tug of War—New Ideas and a Hot Potato

Ch 7. Ground Breaking—Phase I

Ch 8. A Middle Ground—Phase II: The Costs and Benefits of Production Housing

Ch 9. Civano’s DNA—The SES, MOU, and the IMPACT Monitoring System

Ch 10. The Future—Phases III, IV, and the Commercial Center and Beyond

 

 

Biographical note

 

C. Alan Nichols, P.E., LEED AP, established Al Nichols Engineering in 1995. He has served as Project Engineer at Western Electric, Process Engineer for W. L. Gore, and Project Engineer for Tierney Manufacturing. Nichols has over 30 years' experience in heating, air conditioning energy systems, and plumbing. As a member of the Tucson Metropolitan Energy Commission, he was instrumental in writing the sustainable energy standard (SES) for Civano. Additionally, Nichols was part of a volunteer group that led the development of the building code guidelines that have resulted in Civano's 60% reduction of heating and cooling energy and 55% reduction in potable water usage. In 2002, he received the Energy Users News Award, Best Mixed-Use Facility for the Civano project and is Past-Chairman of the Tucson/Pima County Metropolitan Energy Commission.

 

Jason A. Laros is Project Manager with Al Nichols Engineering. In his capacity as building superintendent at the University of Idaho, he managed the maintenance crews and contract construction projects for over 300,000 ft. of university apartments and related building systems and acquainted staff and administration with material and energy saving concepts and practices.

Justin Cupp - HIM

 

Justin Cupp, owner of Home Improvement & Maintenance, has over 12 years of experience in landscape and irrigation, and 3 years of experience with rainwater collection. He sits on the Rainwater Harvesting Task Group for the city of Tucson and is a member of the Southern Arizona Holistic Chamber of Commerce. Justin is the illustrator for Inside the Civano Project. (520) 981-4747 cell/ (520) 760-0255 fax.  rainwatercupp@yahoo.com