Tag Archives: Bullitt Center

Learning from Passive House

November 8, 2011 – 9:00 am

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 [...]

By Jim Hanford, AIA | Posted in Community, Observations, Projects | Also tagged Architecture, Innovation, Sustainability | Comments (8)

Three Women Helped Pave the Way for the Bullitt Center

August 29, 2011 – 9:57 am

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 [...]

By Rich Whealan, AIA, Principal | Posted in Community, News, Observations | Also tagged Groundbreaking, Sustainability | Comments (3)

Grasshopper Helps Us Take Performance-Based Design Leaps

July 13, 2011 – 11:03 am

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 [...]

By Ben Dalton, LEED AP | Posted in Observations, Projects | Also tagged digital, Innovation, Sustainability | Comments (1)

Living Cities: Borrowing the Earth from Our Children

May 23, 2011 – 12:33 pm

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 [...]

By Brian Court, AIA, LEED AP, Associate | Posted in Community, News, Observations | Also tagged Competitions, Innovation, Net Zero, Sustainability | Comments (0)

AIA 2030 Commitment

March 21, 2011 – 5:19 pm

A lot of people are familiar with the Architecture 2030 Challenge that was created by Ed Mazria. It asks design professionals, building owners and contractors to sign a commitment to design and construct buildings that are carbon neutral by 2030. Of course, the way to do this is to decrease the need for fossil fuel-generated [...]

By Ron Rochon, AIA, Partner | Posted in Observations | Also tagged Net Zero, Sustainability, SYLPOE | Comments (1)

Tag Archives: Bullitt Center

Learning from Passive House

Three Women Helped Pave the Way for the Bullitt Center

Grasshopper Helps Us Take Performance-Based Design Leaps

Living Cities: Borrowing the Earth from Our Children

AIA 2030 Commitment

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