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Post-COVID; How Living Buildings Are the Next Recruiting Tool, Hosted by ILFI
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
Please join the International Living Future Institute for an open discussion about how colleges and universities around the world are implementing the Living Building Challenge in their capital projects to ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Living up to the UN SDG's with the Living Building Challenge
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
Many colleges and universities have aligned their sustainability plans with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG's). These 17 global goals aim to end extreme poverty, fight inequality ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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The Challenge and Promise of a Living Building Project in a Dynamic Urban Ecosystem
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
- Thornton Tomasetti (ME)
- Simons Architects (ME)
Where many people see an unassuming drab brick building in a corner of Portland, Maine's, historic waterfront, Unity College sees an unprecedented opportunity for a physical manifestation our sustainability ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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International Living Future Institute - Higher Education Cohort
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
Higher education institutions around the country are pursuing the Living Building Challenge and Living Community Challenge - using the frameworks from ILFI to guide their sustainability efforts to go beyond doing ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
The Kendeda Building - The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at Georgia Institute of Technology is the first building in Georgia to earn Living Building Challenge certification. The Kendeda Building ...
- Posted Aug. 23, 2021
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The Living Building at Nuthatch Hollow | Binghamton University
- Binghamton University (NY)
Binghamton University's Nuthatch Hollow is a hidden oasis just a short distance from campus. Professors Pam Mischen and Carl Lipo explain how this 75-acre property is ideal for the ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design – A Certified Living Building
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
In September 2015, the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology received a commitment for $30 million from The Kendeda Fund to building what the partners expected to become the most environmentally ...
- Posted May 18, 2021
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Evaluating the performance of a decentralized graywater treatment system in a living building at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA
- Hampshire College (MA)
Decentralized graywater treatment systems are growing in popularity as the threat of water scarcity rises and wastewater's potential as a resource is recognized. In 2016, Hampshire College in Amherst ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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The Impact of Biophilic Learning Spaces on Student Success
- Morgan State University (MD)
The purpose of this study is to examine to what extent the design of the physical learning space, enhanced with biophilic design, contributes to student stress reduction and improved learning ...
- Posted April 16, 2020
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Living Building Challenge in Higher Education Roundtable
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
Higher education institutions around the country are pursuing the Living Building Challenge and Living Community Challenge - using the frameworks from ILFI to guide their sustainability efforts to go beyond doing ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Hampshire College’s R.W. Kern Center- A Living & Learning Building
- Hampshire College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
Located at the heart of Hampshire College campus, the R.W. Kern Center is a certified Living Building: generating its own energy, capturing and treating its own water, and processing ...
- Posted March 21, 2019
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Hampshire College's R.W. Kern Center- A Living & Learning Building
- Hampshire College (MA)
Located at the heart of Hampshire College campus, the R.W. Kern Center is a certified Living Building: generating its own energy, capturing and treating its own water, and processing ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Rising to the Challenge of Creating and Maintaining Living Buildings and a Living Campus Community
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
Campuses have been early adopters of livability, equity, and climate commitments. This session takes a deep look at how campuses can and are taking action to achieve these commitments and ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Creating an Ecologically Restorative, Socially Just, and Culturally Rich Campus
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
The higher education campus, what better place to implement the most innovative & forward-thinking design frameworks? As HEIs support the next generation's transition into the workforce, it's time ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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R.W. Kern Center- A Living Building
- Hampshire College (MA)
Located at the heart of Hampshire College campus, the R.W. Kern Center is a multi-purpose facility that embodies the highest threshold of forward-thinking sustainable design: generating its own energy ...
- Posted May 21, 2018
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Leveraging Living Building Challenge Standards across Campus Operations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Hampshire College (MA)
How do you show faculty, staff and students that a building is alive and empower them to keep it healthy? As the most stringent green building certification in the world ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Growing the BULB; Urban Ecology and Butler University's Living Building
- Butler University (IN)
- Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)
The BULB sits at the highest and most iconic location on campus adjacent to Holcomb Observatory and within 100' of the Carillon Tower which connects to an 'organ' at the ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Reuse or Build New? A Tale of Two Carbon Footprints
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Bruner/Cott Architects (MA)
What role does embodied and operational carbon play in making campus development decisions? What role do offsets have in balancing the equation? In light of the ever-growing stock of buildings ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Inspiring Change: Campus Mission and the Living Building Challenge
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Bruner/Cott Architects (MA)
- Integrated Eco Strategy
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
The RW Kern Center is designed to embody Hampshire College's mission of fostering positive change in the world, as well as to meet the Living Building Challenge. This session ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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The Living Building at Georgia Tech - A Campus-Wide Engagement Approach
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
In partnership with The Kendeda Fund, Georgia Tech will build a fully certified Living Building Challenge 3.0 building to support instruction, research, campus engagement, and community outreach on its ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Sustainable Campus Development: Campuses Go Green: Colleges and universities take environmentally responsible design to new levels
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
- AASHE (MA)
Three projects profiled here exemplify that next level: a new campus designed for sustainability from first principles, an academic building now proving itself under the Living Building Challenge, and a ...
- Posted Nov. 10, 2016
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Beyond LEED: Living Buildings Earth Week Lecture 2014
- State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (NY)
- Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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Living Buildings as Inspirational Catalysts
- University of British Columbia (BC)
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
- Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)
- International Living Future Institute (WA)
Living Buildings must not only meet rigorous performance standards for net-positive energy & water, healthy environments and elimination of toxic materials, they also provide feedback to their community to teach ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Trans-formative Power of the Living Building Challenge
- Natural Sustainability (MA)
Presented by a certified ambassador of the ILFI, this session will introduce the Living Building Challenge and provide for questions & discussion. The Living Building Challenge is the built environment ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Accepting the Challenge: Living Building Challenge in Higher Education
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
- Williams College (MA)
Living Building Challenge is a relatively new sustainable building standard launched in 2006 with the purpose of raising the bar in green building. In the words of LBC, it challenges ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Living Buildings that Engage Students (and their Institution) in Sustainability
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)
There is a growing trend in education and architecture to create green ‘buildings that teach’, facilities that further occupant’s understanding and engagement in sustainability. Currently, the most progressive green ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Designing and Operating a Certified "Living Building:" Meeting Certification and Maintaining Net-Zero Energy
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
- Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)
The Tyson Living Learning Center at Washington University in St. Louis opened in May 2009 and on October 12, 2010 became one of the first two buildings in the world ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Design 101: A Syllabus Supplement
- BuildingGreen, Inc. (VT)
Use this syllabus outline if you are teaching an existing course on sustainable design or developing a new course. The weekly topic headings can help organize and prioritize the overall ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Sustainable Living Center
- Maharishi University of Management (IA)
The MUM Sustainable Living Center is a classroom, workshop, and office building that serves the rapidly expanding Sustainable Living degree program at Maharishi University of Management. The vision for this ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Getting to Net- Zero Energy: Lessons Learned from a Living Building Challenge
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
- Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)
In 2008, Washington University in St. Louis committed to the construction of a new building at its environmental field station, Tyson Research Center. This project, the Living Learning Center (LLC ...
- Posted June 24, 2011
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