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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Atlanta-based Lord Aeck Sargent is the first architectural firm in Georgia to earn the International Living Future Institute’s JUST Label.