“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…
Read MoreNEWS RELEASE: April 22, 2014 – Earth Day SEATTLE – For its first birthday on Earth Day 2014, the Bullitt Center announces that it greatly exceeded its ambitious energy performance goals, even when accounting for growing occupancy over its first 12 months of operations. Honored by World Architecture News as the “greenest commercial building in…
Read MoreWhen the Bullitt Foundation determined to create the greenest commercial building in the world, we embarked on a quest that was ridiculously ambitious but enormously rewarding. I’d assumed that the toughest challenge would be to build a zero net energy six-story building in Seattle—the cloudiest city in the lower 48. That was indeed difficult, but probably not…
Read MoreOn February 4-5, 2014, the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) presented a fantastic series of events and speakers over two days in San Francisco, focusing on projects that are Net Zero in their energy and water use. As inspiration, the conference started with a tour of projects in San Francisco and the East Bay. The…
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