Bullitt Center Earns Living Building Certification

on Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 6:00 AM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 1, 2015 Today the Bullitt Center proved its status as the greenest commercial building in the world by becoming the first office building to earn Living Building certification, the most challenging benchmark of sustainability in the built environment. To earn the certification, the Bullitt Center demonstrated that it produces more…

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Cities are the greatest hope for our planet

Posted by Denis Hayes on Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:50 PM

Note: This article was originally published on Ensia. It is re-published here with their permission. October 28, 2014 — Of all the things people build, cities are the most important.  Cities are the largest things we build, and most people now live in them. But that’s not why cities are our most important invention. Cities…

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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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Bullitt Center Far Exceeds Energy Goals in First Year of Operations

Posted by Brad Kahn on Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:05 PM

NEWS 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…

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