by Sandra Lester | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog
Land a Project That Goes for Living Building Certification 3 Mar 3, 2020 What is a Living Building? The Living Building Challenge was started by the Cascadia Green Building Council and has become a separate certification in its own right, based on a system of Petals....
by Sandra Lester | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog
Blog 3 Mar 3, 2020 Let’s get the bad news over with first. Your building is definitely not performing at its potential. Unless you have recently done all three of these steps it is not performing at its potential. To reach its potential performance for no-cost...
by Sandra Lester | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog
I’ve been a little obsessed with how buildings are designed since I took a trip to the other side of the planet when I was a teenager and saw how ridiculously identical everything was. Here I was in an almost subtropical city, and I felt like Dorothy from Wizard...
by Sandra Lester | Dec 22, 2017 | Blog
We just put in two projects for LEED Certification this afternoon. It feels good! There was over one Gigabyte of information in that submission! You might not want to try this alone! Even if you are a LEED-accredited Professional, you still might need some help...
by Sandra Lester | Dec 21, 2017 | Blog
There are significant differences between LEED 2009 for New Construction and Major Renovation in Canada. Today we are going to talk about the old Sustainable Sites Category that changes to Location to Linkages. There is a new LEEDv4 Credit that rewards projects that...