Living buildings go beyond LEED
The Living Buildings challenge, articulated by the Cascadia Green Building Council, goes well beyond the LEED green building standard, toward broader environmental sustainability goals. The USGBC has adopted this challenge for a “Living Buildings Design Challenge,” with the winners to be announced at the 2007 Greenbuild conference.
Last week’s Greenbuild 2006 conference in Denver firmed up the link between green buildings and broader environmental sustainability concerns through the focus on carbon dioxide reductions and the introduction of the Living Buildings concept. Beyond carbon reduction, the “living buildings” concept builds on five years of work by a number of architects and visionaries, to go beyond green buildings toward more “restorative” and “regenerative” buildings. There is now a “Living Buildings Design Challenge” from the Cascadia Green Building Council, which the USGBC will conduct over the next year, and announce the results at Greenbuild 2007, in Los Angeles, October 15-19, 2007.
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