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 Living Building Challenge (LBC), a green ratings system for design and construction that judges a building based on its actual performance, not just its projected performance at the design stage, ...
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 ...
The PAE building is the world's largest commercial Living Building and the only one engineered to survive a magnitude-7.5 quake with barely a scratch. One of several goals of the PAE Living Building ...
Last month, a 5-story commercial building in Portland’s Old Town historic district was awarded one of the most rigorous sustainability certifications in the world, given by the Portland-based ...
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 ...
Saint-Gobain announced today that CertainTeed Innovation Malvern, its research and development center located on its North American headquarters campus in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has received a Core ...
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 ...