As part of the Living Building Challenge, the Bullitt Center team worked to screen out endocrine-disrupting chemicals from products used in the project. In this post, Kris Weber offers some background on EDCs. – Editor Over the past 50 years, chemicals—both synthetic and natural—have become an intractable element of our society. Indeed, advances in chemical…
Read MoreFirst-of-a-kind research calculates that public benefits are comparable to construction cost of the building. A report released on September 4, 2014, Optimizing Urban Ecosystem Services: The Bullitt Center Case Study, found that just six of the building’s green features will produce up to $18.5 million in benefits to society over the life of the building….
Read MoreWhen the team set out to design and build the Bullitt Center, we had one goal in mind: push the limits of today’s technologies and knowledge to create the greenest office building in the world. By showing what’s possible today, we wanted to encourage other project teams to go even further. We set this goal…
Read MoreThe Bullitt Center team learned this week that John Stamets, architectural photographer and lecturer at the University of Washington, passed away. While we mourn his passing, we also wanted to celebrate John’s fantastic work documenting the construction of the Bullitt Center. Most visitors to the Bullitt Center start their tour in the Discovery Commons, facing…
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