There will be a wide variety of volunteer opportunities, from carpentry to gardening. Please bring a bag lunch and any favorite tools. We'll be doing basic carpentry and misc. Hope to see you there. Through both lecture and extensive work in the field, students will learn how to site and size a basic system, how to select the proper equipment and components, how to troubleshoot problems and how to install all parts of a working system.
Space is limited and many of the most popular sessions fill up quickly.
These include Fort Baker in the Presidio, the Sutro Visitor Center, and the visitor center at Zion National Park. By Federal mandate the NPS is working to reduce energy use in its buildings. In addition, the design teams for these projects must often address national historic preservation standards. This presentation will examine the challenge of designing within these often-conflicting constraints. We will be gathering to complete the solar garden shed project begun by students from UC Berkeley.