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Dennis Creech: ‘It’s never just about the building’
Green building guru Dennis Creech’s new mission: To leverage lessons from a Living Building so that regenerative design and construction takes a firm hold in the Southeast.
Project Drawdown proposes building-based climate solutions
With Project Drawdown, sustainable business advocate and writer Paul Hawken leads a team that has identified 100 climate change solutions. Around half of them deal with the built environment.
Living Building founder Jason McLennan to speak at Georgia Tech
Jason F. McLennan, who co-authored the Living Building Challenge and oversaw its initial implementation, will speak at 6-8 pm March 28 at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center.
Kendeda’s Dena Kimball on Georgia Tech project
Georgia Tech Building Takes Shape in Schematic Design
Brian Court and Joshua Gassman imagine the South’s greenest campus building as an airy space spanned by timbers, like the sun-dappled woods around it. Here’s a close look complete with visuals of the Living Building at Georgia Tech.
Healthy Building Network and Google combine forces on Portico materials tool
Design teams for materials that meet the Living Building Challenge’s exacting standards are familiar with the predicament: How does one find, sort and compare environmental and health data on those materials? A collaboration between Google and the Heathy Building Network has produced a platform, called Portico, designed to address that problem.
It ain’t easy being net positive
Lord Aeck Sargent blog: “The amount of intentionality and rigor required in the energy design of a project with a fixed energy budget is remarkable.”
Lord Aeck Sargent among first with JUST Label
Atlanta-based Lord Aeck Sargent is the first architectural firm in Georgia to earn the International Living Future Institute’s JUST Label.