Project Description
This exhibit hall will incorporate a residential appearance with a building footprint of approximately 3,000 square feet. Materials and construction techniques will be selected that demostrate for a strong, safe building that promotes protection of the environment.
State-of-the-art family-friendly exhibits will reinforce this important theme and show visitors how people may be safe in the sometimes threatening natural world and how the natural world may be saved from the effects of human habitation.
Planners envision that families and individuals will tour this center and become awed by the power and beauty of nature, empowered to live safely in harmony with our world, and motivated to exercise ever more wise stewardship of natural resources.
Disaster Resistant
- ICF wall construction
- Wind-resistant framing
- Hail-resistant roofing
- Lightning protection
- Residential fire sprinklers
- SafeRoom
- Water damage protection
- Stormwater & flood
Steering Committee
Michelle Barnett, Co-Chair (ENERCON Services)
Graham Brannin, Co-Chair (City of Tulsa Public Works)
Kathy Champion (PSO)
Brett Fidler (City of Tulsa Mayor’s Office of Sustainability)
Mike Gurley (State Farm Insurance)
Tim Lovell,( Executive Director, Tulsa Partners Inc.)
Build Safe & Green
Build America (Building solutions from the Department of Energy)
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH)
Green Builder Magazine
Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa
U.S. Green Building Council
Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) Fortified Home Program
AIA Eastern Oklahoma, a Chapter of The American Institute of Architects
National Institute for Building Science
Live Green
Metropolitan Environmental Trust (the M.e.t. in the Tulsa area)
Oklahoma Sustainability Network (OSN)
Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative
Sustainable Green Country
Sustainable Tulsa
Live Safe
American Red Cross
Firewise Communities (Make your home “wildfire resistant”)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
National Weather Service (find the forecast office in your area)
Tulsa Citizen Corps (Community Emergency Response Teams, Volunteers in Police Service,
Alert Neighbors,and other programs)
Tulsa Partners (Building a Disaster Resistant Community)
Other Useful Sites
The City of Tulsa
Green Building Resource Lib
Technical Committee
State Farm Insurance
Public Service Co. of Oklahoma
Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa
Ann Patton, LLC
American Institute of Architects, Eastern OK Chapter
Coleman-Johnson-Clyma, Inc.
City of Tulsa
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH)
International Code Council
Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS)
Metropolitan Environmental Trust (the M.e.t.)
National Association of Home Builders
National Weather Service
Selser Schaefer Architects
Sustainable Tulsa
Taylor Studios
Texas Tech University Dept. of Wind Science & Engineering
Tulsa Partners, Inc.
