The Living Building Challenge requires all water to be harvested and treated on site. To meet the Challenge with respect to management of human waste on site, the Bullitt Center team is using Phoenix Composting Toilets from Advanced Composting Systems of Whitefish, Montana. This system uses a small amount of water and compost is the…
Read MoreOn June 8th, 2012, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was in Seattle to give a keynote address at the annual Climate Solutions breakfast and to provide the commencement address at the University of Washington the following day. Lucky for us, she was also interested to learn more about the Bullitt Center. At the Climate Solutions breakfast,…
Read MoreWhen it comes from a responsibly managed forest, wood is one of the most sustainable building materials. In the Pacific Northwest, it is an abundant, renewable resource, produced with the sun’s energy. So wood is a logical building material for Seattle – part of our regional “vernacular” for designers and builders. In the Bullitt Center,…
Read MoreThere are eight embedded steel plates on the floor of Level 3 which set the placement of all the structural steel above. Each weighs 400 pounds and is made of 1-1/4” steel plate. When the surveyor took the location of each plate they were accurate to within thousandths of an inch. Here is a photo…
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