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Pick 5 : Narrative Answer (90 pts / 18 pts each):
Provide a comprehensive answer to five of the following questions (1 page each minimum). 

Only the first five responses will be graded; no extra credit.  Please use the appropriate number and order when submitting your responses.

Use citations and external sources to support your conclusions as needed.

1. In the Environmental Defense Fund case study, what was the rational for utilizing modular furniture in the conference room and various office spaces?  Describe how this encourages Sustainability. Provide web link to a supplier of these types of furnishings.

2. Describe the term Payback Period, and why its consideration so crucial to the implementation of sustainable / green technologies.  What time period is the current market willing to bear, what will it take to elongate duration?

3. Discuss Toyotas stance on Sustainable Development and Return on Investment.  Relate this to the fundamental principles of Green Building Design.

4. In the Aventine Office Tower case study, what was the motivation for Glenborough to pursue a LEED platinum rating?  What do you think this says about the future of sustainable development and its ability to be implemented within existing structures?

5. The Lavasa project (Mose Valley India) was constructed by a hotel / resort conglomerate.  Please comment on the Green nature of these developments.  Comment on the value of these large scale developments to the sustainable movement.

6. Discuss why, despite the United States limited history (i.e. established in 1776), our nation has become a global technological / economic / political power.  Detail our responsibility toward promoting sustainable construction and curtailing resource consumption.

7. Describe how both architecture design and engineering of buildings has changed over the last century as a result of modern technology.  Describe how green engineering is now attempting to embrace natural energy saving design elements.

8. Describe why the use of day lighting to illuminate interior spaces is more complicated than simply opening a window.  Describe the architectural and engineering challenges faced to provide natural lighting within a given structure.