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Equity Petal: When is a ramp not just a ramp?
Georgia Tech Student Equity Champion Angelica Acevedo on the Living Building Challenge Equity Petal: Equality and equity are two very different concepts.... Read more
Materials Petal: Making the transformative tangible
The LBC’s Energy and Water Petals set high bars. But the Materials Petal has a formidable reputation in Living Building Challenge circles.
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Health & Happiness Petal: How to measure a smile
Georgia Tech's Shan Arora: We could look at health and happiness narrowly, especially the health part. But there’s a lot more at play when it comes to the well-being of a building’s occupants.... Read more
Energy Petal: In Southeast, it’s the humidity
Newcomb & Boyd's Todd Mowinski: Given a large enough solar array and plenty of battery storage, nearly any building could attain net positive energy. That would be very expensive. The real key? Solid, creative engineering... Read more
Water Petal: Restoring a vital friendship
Erin English on the Living Building Challenge Water Petal: How one project presented her and her colleagues with "the opportunity to design a building that could begin to restore and revive our vital connections to that old friend – and to re-engage in a loving, caring relationship with the natural systems that sustain us and our place."... Read more
Place Petal: A building as a bridge, not a boundary
Georgia Tech's John J. DuConge’ on the Place Petal and the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design: "Think about [the building] as a meeting place for two landscapes."... Read more
How urban landscapes can become more fruitful
Georgia Organics CEO Alice Rolls has been slipping away from her office to raid a blueberry bush. A new report from her organization identifies how to clear key obstacles to edible landscapes in her home city of Atlanta.... Read more
Architects have gotten serious about operational carbon — what’s next?
As the AIA takes a stand on climate change, Ramana Koti says there's reason to be optimistic that buildings can be designed to operate without releasing carbon.... Read more
Space, the next green building frontier
Georgia Tech Institute Architect Howard S. Wertheimer offers up a green building trend he'd like to see, especially on college campuses.... Read more
Jason McLennan proposes an approach to scale for biophilic design
Living Building Challenge founder Jason F. McLennan proposes a framework for scaling biophilic design appropriately in different types of building projects.... Read more