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Jeremy Bonin, AIA NCARB LEED AP, principal partner of Bonin Architects & Associates, is the author of TIMBER FRAMES: Designing Your Custom Home, (available on Amazon.com) an invaluable tool to help homeowners become fully involved in the design of their new timber frame or post and beam home.
Jeremy, a LEED Accredited Professional, has a special interest in sustainable design, focusing on timber framing and structural insulated panels (SIPs) while incorporating other sustainable (green) energy practices, including geo-thermal, solar, radiant heat, and energy-efficient foundation systems.
The Timber Framers Guild, a nonprofit educational membership association dedicated to the craft of timber framing, recently announced Jeremy as one of three winners of its Silver Park Design Competition. The goal of the competition was to create three small log and/or timber shelters with benches in Silver Park, Missoula, Montana. Silver Park, formerly a mill site and originally owned by Morris Silver in the 1930s and then by the F. Morris & Helen Silver Foundation, will be a 15-acre public space owned by the city of Missoula. Situated along the river across from downtown Missoula, it connects to and extends Missoula's river trail system. The park's theme celebrates the heritage of timber in Western Montana. Designs were judged anonymously on the overall aesthetic design, creative use of materials, originality and how well they met specific design parameters for the project. The winning structures will be built at the International Log Builders Association workshop and at the Timber Framers Guild Conference.