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Nature Knows Best show features Bullitt Center, Sto Corp.
Check out this entertaining show on the Bullitt Center from the Xploration Network’s Nature Knows Best. The episode, called Bio-Based Building, focuses on biophilic design and products.
Georgia Tech Living Building schematic design floor plans
View the floor plan for the basement, first floor and second floor of the 42,000-square-foot Living Building at Georgia Tech, from the building’s schematic design phase.
Living Building Schematic Design to Be Considered Wednesday
The Living Building at Georgia Tech crosses an end-of-the-year threshold Wednesday as the building’s architects present their proposed schematic design to the university’s Planning and Design Commission.
Cutting campus carbon? This RMI guide has useful tips
If you’re involved in campus planning, you may want to check out a recent Rocky Mountain Institute guide on reducing the carbon output at universities and colleges.
Ideas Competition Reforms Architect Selection Process
The ideas competition for the design of Georgia Tech’s Living Building certainly was challenging. But Tech officials and the six architectural firms that were finalists say they gained valuable knowledge about the program. And the university already is employing a similar process as it gets going on a non-Living Building project.
Red List Makes Materials a Challenge for Georgia Tech Living Building
The Materials Working Group for the Living Building at Georgia Tech design team is trying to figure out which materials can be used on the building. It’s by no means an easy task. Architects Ramani Koti and Alissa Kingsley report this week on the Lord Aeck Sargent blog that the Materials Petal is “as challenging, if not more, as achieving net-positive energy and net-positive water.”
Pattern r+d’s Ahuja Hails ‘Ideas Competition’ Teamwork
Anatomy of a Grant (Part 2): The Courtship Between a Donor and an Owner
The first time Barry Berlin heard of the Bullitt Center was when Diana Blank called him with an idea: How could the Kendeda Fund go about creating a Living Building on a similar scale in Atlanta? It was May 2013.
“She’s telling me about this wonderful building, and I’m pulling it up on Google just so I can see what she’s talking about,” says Berlin, longtime financial advisor and strategist to the philanthropy founded by Blank. “I asked her, ‘So you want me to see if we can build one of these here?’ And she said, ‘Do you think we can?’ And I said, ‘We’ll never know until we try.’ ”
