Living buildings go beyond LEED
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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