Tag Archives: Bullitt Center

Learning from Passive House

We have been fortunate over the last 2-1/2 years to be working on the Bullitt Center, a significant step forward — for us and hopefully for the industry — in the design of high performance buildings. The audacious goal is net zero energy use for a six-story urban office building. In addition to net zero [...]

Three Women Helped Pave the Way for the Bullitt Center

As our firm gets ready for the groundbreaking of the Bullitt Center, a truly sustainable office building in downtown Seattle designed to meet the requirements of The Living Building Challenge, the feeling of pride and hope — and a bit of relief — permeates the office. While I’m excited about the promise of this project [...]

Grasshopper Helps Us Take Performance-Based Design Leaps

In addition to our office going all BIM (Revit) and adopting Ecotect as a standard analysis tool in the last four-five years, we have also recently been looking at how the use of Grasshopper might provide benefit to our design process. Grasshopper is a software tool that utilizes Rhino 3-D as a modeling platform to [...]

Living Cities: Borrowing the Earth from Our Children

There’s an old Native American saying that reminds us that we don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. As a father of two young boys, I don’t want to be a part of a design and construction industry that compromises the future for the sake of the present. I [...]

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