While the U.S. Green Building Council is busy making a business case for a greener globe, other environmentalists are busy making greener buildings, communities and cities.
This summer, Denis Hayes is “off the grid.” But Seattle’s celebrated sun worshipper— known for growing Earth Day into a global environmental movement and for masterminding a living laboratory for ultra-green commercial office buildings—is not lying on a beach soaking up the rays.
The 52,000-sq-ft Bullitt Center, considered the greenest building in the world, is a tangible representation of the way Denis Hayes, Bullitt Foundation’s president and CEO since 1992, has altered the course of the environmental group.
Seattle’s Living Building Pilot Program, a 2009 city ordinance created to remove regulatory and other impediments to the development of ultra-green buildings, would likely never have seen the light of day if not for Denis Hayes, president and CEO of the nonprofit Bullitt Foundation.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office says that while most federal agencies use third-party green-building rating systems, they still find requirements tough to implement on new projects and renovations.
Earlier this month, Green Business Certification Inc.—the certification body for the LEED rating system of the U.S. Green Building Council—announced it is accepting applications for project certification under the Sustainable Sites Initiative Version 2 rating system for greener landscapes.
Egypt says it plans to build a new government and financial capital district near Cairo that could take $45 billion and more than seven years to construct.
The architect for the world's most sustainable speculative office building—Seattle's 52,000-sq-ft Bullitt Center—says the most challenging aspect of the design was staying within budget while still meeting the Living Building Challenge's rigorous certification requirements.
After nearly two years of operation to prove its worthiness, the 52,000-sq-ft Bullitt Center in Seattle—the first speculative office building to attempt full certification under the rigorous Living Building Challenge sustainability program—has been named a "living building."
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