The idea of a Living Building, a high-performance building that produces its own power and cleans and reuses all of its water, is gaining momentum around the world. In an effort to oversee the global ...

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the arid city of Bend, Oregon, where it rains up to 9 inches a year, is an aptly named house called Desert Rain. The owners of this home, Tom Elliott and Barbara Scott, sought to ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Water is life, so it's critical to conserve as much rain as possible, but that's not easy to do on the scale of a government building. Joe Coriaty, a managing partner of ...

New residence hall is designed to earn living-building certification from the Living Building Challenge, the most rigorous sustainable building certification program in the world. Yale Divinity School ...

The 50,000 sf Bullitt Center in Seattle is being constructed to be the greenest, most energy-efficient commercial building in the world, and meet the ambitious goals of the Living Building Challenge. ...

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Buildings are more than concrete, steel, and brick. They reflect our values. And so it is with a new graduate-student residence hall at Yale University’s Divinity School, seeking full certification ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The International Living Future Institute taps an architect ...

The 58,000-sq-ft PAE Living Building in Portland, Ore., is the first privately developed speculative office building fully certified under the rigorous Living Building Challenge of the International ...

With the high-profile Oregon Sustainability Center project shelved for now, builders like James Arnold of JRA Green Building are chasing the Living Building Challenge. Click through the gallery to see ...