Armando Cobo, AIBD
- Architecture and Management degrees from Lawrence Tech and Oklahoma State University.
- Has been designing homes since 1977.
- Builder for 16 years in Wichita, KS.
- Has owned a design firm in Albuquerque, NM for over 8 years.
- Has designed and built "green" homes for 16 years.
- Member of USGBC, NAHB, AIBD & NKBA
- Member of Build Green NM and Building America Program.
- Member of National Coalition of Green Builder Programs.
- Past Board of Director at the Home Builders Association of Central NM.
- Current Board of Director at the NM Home Builders Association.
- Participated in several past and current CID and City of Albuquerque task forces on Buildings Codes, Water Conservation, Sustainability and Green Building.
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CASA develops the CASA Code Initiative
- CASA develops the CASA Code Initiative – a two
year program to facilitate the adoption of a progressive
Green Building Code in New Mexico. A response to the challenge
of raising greenhouse gases and industry consensus.
- This long-term project will use Governor Bill Richardson’s
Executive Order (05-033), to reduce current GHG emissions
to 2000 levels 2012, increase to10% by 2020, and increase
to 75% by 2050.
- A three-pronged strategy will include: State Agency Involvement,
A Code Development Program, and a Political Action-Plan.
- This initiative will establish a task force that creates
a partnership with the NM State Construction Industries
Division; the agency responsible for proposing of all building
codes for adoption.
- This effort is based on the evidence from actual energy
consumption drawn from a recent survey of USGBC LEED For
Building Program of significant reduction in, CO2 by 35%-50%,
as well as an average of 35%-90% reduction of water use
in surveyed buildings.
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