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Dave Abeloe, a 24-year Patagonia employee, gave an insider’s history of the company and a marvelous, comprehensive tour of the office and warehouse spaces. His talk and walk provided insights into the building’s design process, its systems, and operation. Our collective reaction was that Patagonia was the green architect’s ideal client, willing to invest in strategies with moderately long payback times. The daylighted, un-air-conditioned warehouse and the daylighted office offered questions about how to tweak the details, rather than how to overcome colossal design flaws. It’s an exemplary green building.

Theoretically, the afternoon through morning format allowed us to use HOBO data loggers to gather temperature readings overnight. However, a bug in Onset’s Boxcar Pro 4.0 software caused most of the HOBO XTs to fail to record data. [Upgrading to BoxCar Pro 4.2.10.1 fixes the laptop power management problem. The upgrade is available at: <http://www.onsetcomp.com/Support/HS_Support/
2279_hsfiles.html>.] Undaunted by disappointing data gaps, the teams ferreted out the answers to many puzzling questions about the building’s performance.

 updated
July 5, 2002