The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is complete and occupied. The columns below — by project and community leaders — offer up lessons learned from this innovative project.
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PETAL COLUMNS
Project team members offer up lessons learned through the lens of the seven Petals around which the Living Building Challenge is organized.
Place: A bridge and not a boundary
Water: Restoring a vital friendship
Energy: In Southeast, it’s the humidity
Health & Happiness: How to measure a smile
Materials: Tangible transformation
Equity: Where people fit in sustainability
Beauty Petal: In eye of the beholder
CHANGE-LEADER COLUMNS
We asked leading change makers to tell us how the Kendeda Building might kickstart an overdue transformation of our building industry.
Diana Blank: The power of experiencing nature
Ryan Gravel: Building a regenerative movement
Ande Noktes: A small school’s commitment
Kim Cobb: Modeling change 1 building at a time
Howard Wertheimer: Where colleges go from here
Keith Loiseau: Vanderbilt’s Living Building push
LATEST FROM THE BUILDING
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Kendeda Building ‘not the final destination’: Dedication in pictures — and a roll forward
One message rang consistent at a cheerful dedication ceremony Thursday morning for the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design: This is just the beginning.
“Let’s all agree that today is not the final destination — not even close,” Kendeda Fund Executive Director Dena Kimball told more than 250 gathered in the super-sustainable building’s auditorium.
Kimball’s mother, Diana Blank, who is the philanthropist behind the Kendeda Fund, conceived of the building as a model to prod a transformation of design and construction in the Southeast. CONTINUE READING