Over the last decade, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program has established itself as the preeminent industry standard for rating green buildings. Despite LEED’s remarkable success, however, ...
The idea of a Living Building, a high-performance building that produces its own power and cleans and reuses all of its water, is gaining momentum around the world. In an effort to oversee the global ...
The 58,000-sq-ft PAE Living Building in Portland, Ore., is the first privately developed speculative office building fully certified under the rigorous Living Building Challenge of the International ...
This piece was first published on May 29, 2024 on ENR.com. One of several goals of the PAE Living Building team was to create a second-generation global model for commercial Living Buildings. The ...
OUT THERE. TUCKED AWAY ON THE CAMPUS OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE IN AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS, A BUILDING THAT DOESN’T JUST STAND OUT FROM NATURE, IT STANDS WITH IT. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW A PLANT GROWS, IF ...