Page 7 - 2014 SDCA Project

From Celebration to Service

Red and Green Scene Holiday Party 2014 gathered participants of seven organizations
from Atlanta’s sustainable and design community, including members of the American

Institute of Architects (AIA | Atlanta), Atlanta Chapter of the American Society of
Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Georgia Chapter of

the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), South Atlantic Chapter of the
Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), Atlanta Chapter of the
Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), Georgia Chapter of the International

Interior Design Association (IIDA Georgia), and the Georgia Chapter of the United
States Green Building Council (USGBC). While the celebration takes place in one night,

the service has just begun. An annual service project is supported by proceeds from
the industry’s annual Red and Green Scene (R&GS) end of the year holiday
celebration, in addition to volunteered professional services from R&GS member

organizations.

This year, Sustainable Design Collaborative Atlanta gathered once again to give back to
the community. The organization elected to work on a project for the good of the city
of Atlanta, it’s refugees, and the Clarkston community located near the Atlanta Metro

Area, by adopting the Jolly Avenue Development Center (JADC) as its 2013-2014
service project.

JADC is the brainchild of the non-profit organization called Friends of Refugees (F.O.R.)
to provide critical, programmatic, and support service spaces for the refugees who

settle in this area.

This project includes an evaluation of the building/site and the development of a
report that will indicate recommendations, through design development phase of the
building, for sustainable use as well as plans to make it the first building in Georgia to

meet the Passive House commercial green building certification. Recommendations
and plans have been proposed for the site and building to provide connectivity to the

surrounding community, and to make it a thriving center for refugees to learn, work,
and grow together to thus become flourishing, contributing members of the
community.

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