New Publication: The Greenest Building

Posted by Michael Berrisford on Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 7:23 PM

“The Bullitt Center was the type of design challenge architects dream about.”  Brian Court, The Miller Hull Partnership   Mary Adam Thomas’ newly released book, THE GREENEST BUILDING: How the Bullitt Center Changes the Urban Landscape, documents the historic creation of the greenest Class-A commercial office building in the world. The storyline traces the Bullitt Foundation’s…

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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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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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