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Waste materials fire Green Leaf’s recipe for 100 percent recycled brick
A North Carolina businessman partners with a materials engineer and a brick factory to come up with a supply chain and a manufacturing process for 100 percent recycled bricks.
Early Kendeda Building blower-door test: ‘Impressive’ but still short of goal
A preliminary SK Collaborative blower door test indicates that the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is on the right track when it comes to air tightness.
Mineral wool’s upswing solves many insulation sustainability issues
Mineral wool has been making quite a comeback as a go-to insulation for green buildings. No wonder then that the Kendeda Building in Owens Corning Thermafiber.
Viracon glazing features slew of sustainable features
Glazing for the Kendeda Building, supplied by the glass fabrication giant Viracon, is about as high-performance as you can get when it comes to energy efficiency
Kendeda Building’s bird-safe glass: Small step in ‘shockingly huge’ issue
By an unusual path, the Kendeda Building will include bird-safe glass. That’s rare among green buildings, which often ignore one of the leading causes of avian deaths.
Kawneer pushes envelope of curtain-wall sustainability
Atlanta-based curtain-wall manufacturer Kawneer has its eye on a Living Building project in its backyard from the very start. Its longterm focus on sustainability paid off.
Prosoco air barrier closely tied to Living Buildings
The orange air-and-water barrier that recently was painted onto the exterior walls of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, is intimately tied an earlier Living Building — Seattle’s Bullitt Center.
Reuse and recycling begins once construction is underway
No matter how much planning goes into the design or how many salvage items are worked into the specs, getting to net positive waste requires a vigilance that continues until the project is complete.
The salvageable lifecycle
The math of “net positive waste” is pretty basic: Divert more stuff from the landfill than you send to the landfill. As with many simple formulas, the challenge lies in the details.
3,224 tons recycled vs. 1 ton of waste
The Living Building Challenge requires projects to be “net positive waste.” Here’s how the Kendeda Building is meeting its materials conservation goals.
