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Living Future 2019: The takeaways
Here are the ah-ha moments from friends, colleagues and Tweeters who attended the world’s largest gathering on regenerative design and construction — along with a roundup of the news.
How will LBC 4.0 and Core certification change the Living Building movement?
The world’s most rigorous green building standard just got more flexible. That doesn’t mean it’s suddenly a push over.
Carbon-free summit’s simple message: Start communicating
The builders, designers and manufacturers tackling the immense challenge of embodied carbon have a blunt bit of advice for their colleagues: Just talk about it.
Living Future 2019 to unveil LBC 4.0
I’ll be reporting this week from the Living Future 2019 conference in Seattle, which promises to be newsworthy for at least two reasons.
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.
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.
McLennan, Integral Group team up on ASHRAE Zero Energy renovation
It makes sense that ASHRAE, a leading proponent of efficient buildings, would hire leading green building architects and engineers for the Zero Energy renovation of its new Atlanta building.