Mahlum Architects' New Office is the First Living Building–Certified Project in Portland
By following rigorous LBC guidelines, the group has turned the location into a model of its organizational values, including sustainable design.
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Georgia Tech's Kendeda Building Sets a High Bar for Regenerative Design
The new center is the largest project in the southeast United States to pursue Living Building certification, widely regarded as the industry's most rigorous sustainability credential.
Radical Change in the Building Industry Is Desperately Needed, and It Can't Happen Without Building Trades
Workers in the building sector are uniquely positioned to make the demand for an ecologically responsible architecture and the renewable energy to operate it.
If You Are Serious About Sustainability, Social Equity Can't Be Just Another Add-On
Social impact was supposed to be central to sustainability from the start. What happened?
The Living Future unConference Emphasizes Equity in Sustainable Design
The conference, a cross-industry event that was hosted in Seattle from April 30–May 3, is an outgrowth of the Living Building Challenge certification program.
How Nonprofit and Public-Sector Clients Are Driving Sustainable Design
As these three examples of nonprofit and public-sector clients suggest, those at the top can empower architects to make impactful choices, provided they embrace sustainable goals of substance.
The High Ideals of the Living Building Challenge
Jason F. McLennan, CEO of the International Living Future Institute, on shaping the future of sustainable design
Is Green Globes a Credible Alternative to LEED?
Opinion: Is Green Globes a credible alternative to LEED?
A Sustainable Architecture Has Yet to Be Realized, Says Bob Berkebile
The next building environment today: sustainable architecture is yet to be realized
Fuller Institute Awards Alternative Green Building Standard
The Energy Lab at Hawaii Preparatory Academy, a certified Living Building Courtesy Flansburgh Architects Buckminster Fuller, the architect who gave us the geodesic dome and championed socially-responsible design before we even had a term for it, was a very quotable…
Two Green Building Initiatives Go Way Beyond LEED
“Patchwork”, Living City Challenge Entry The sustainability rating systems—Passive House, Living Building Challenge, and Net Zero (a subset of the Challenge)—appear in isolated new construction projects. The promise and perversity of trying to pick out sustainability targets, building by building,…
Innovation for Hire
Courtesy SERA Architects and GDB Architects Disappointment has become an everyday feeling since 2008 for those of us in the design and construction fields, as we saw too many of our pet projects dematerialize. But the loss is especially painful…
