Designers and contractors are moving beyond a checklist of do’s and don’ts and are exploring new means of building green.

The 30,000-sq-ft Palomar Community College District Maintenance and Operations complex in San Marcos, Calif., was built with sustainability in mind.

Jason F. McLennan has left an “incredible legacy of brilliant ideas and visions for our future,” says Amanda Sturgeon, the new CEO of the International Living Future Institute, which administers the sustainable-building certification program called the Living Building Challenge.

Jason F. McLennan advances the world’s most audacious environmental standards and leads mission to provide super-sustainable buildings to the needy.

Partners Jason F. McLennan, Dale R. Duncan and Thomas J. Knittel think life is about give and take.