The Living Building Challenge’s Net Positive Water imperative stipulates that a project’s “water use and release must work in harmony with the natural water flows of the site and its surroundings.” For the Living Building at Georgia Tech, this means mimicking the Piedmont forest in the way it absorbs and releases water.
Don’t call it a groundbreaking. The Sept. 12 launch for the Living Building at Georgia Tech is about restoring the Earth more than “breaking” it.
When students return to the Georgia Tech campus this fall, they’ll find opportunities to participate in six pilot projects intended to improve the design, construction, operation and evaluation of sustainable buildings.
A mix of panic buying and cancelled projects has swept over the U.S. solar installation industry in response to a trade complaint by Georgia-based solar panel manufacturer Suniva.
Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta — in that order — led the nation in “green building adoption” at the end of 2016, according to an analysis by real estate giant CBRE and Maastricht University.
More than a third of participating buildings already have reduced energy and water consumption by 20 percent.
Let this be a lesson to you: Hampshire College’s R.W. Kern Center project team is relieved now that the state has finally approved their UV method for turning rainwater into drinking water.
Solar panels may shimmer in many a mayor’s eyes as cities commit to 100 percent renewable energy. When they get down to the nuts and bolts, however, they’ll find that efficiency gets them most of the way to their goal.
A before-and-after thought experiment among Lord Aeck Sargent architects about the Living Building at Georgia Tech focuses attention on regeneration and beauty.
The Georgia Tech Living Building project team is covering new ground as it seeks to surpass the requirements of the Living Building Challenge Equity Petal.
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