Report Finds $18.5 Million in Hidden Value at Bullitt Center

Posted by Brad Kahn on Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:31 PM

First-of-a-kind research calculates that public benefits are comparable to construction cost of the building. A report released on September 4, 2014, Optimizing Urban Ecosystem Services: The Bullitt Center Case Study, found that just six of the building’s green features will produce up to $18.5 million in benefits to society over the life of the building….

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What is the point of green building?

Posted by Brad Kahn on Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:16 PM

When the team set out to design and build the Bullitt Center, we had one goal in mind: push the limits of today’s technologies and knowledge to create the greenest office building in the world. By showing what’s possible today, we wanted to encourage other project teams to go even further. We set this goal…

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Remembering John Stamets

on Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:51 PM

The Bullitt Center team learned this week that John Stamets, architectural photographer and lecturer at the University of Washington, passed away. While we mourn his passing, we also wanted to celebrate John’s fantastic work documenting the construction of the Bullitt Center. Most visitors to the Bullitt Center start their tour in the Discovery Commons, facing…

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ILFI Living Future 2014: Beauty and Inspiration

Posted by Nina Smith-Gardiner, AIA, LEED AP on Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:22 PM

Maya Lin, Jason McLennan, and Jay Harman all presented visions of hope for the future at the Living Future 2014 unConference. Maya Lin’s presentation was spell-binding, in particular her descriptions of her Confluence Project: http://www.confluenceproject.org/project-sites/ Jay Harman described how nature offers us the solutions we desperately need in his presentation Biomimicry: How Nature is Inspiring…

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