Tagged: environmental design

5:01am

Mon May 20, 2013
green design

Latest in 'living building' green design: Self-sustaining classroom

A prototype of a self-sustaining portable classroom has arrived at a parking lot in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood.

The classroom is meant to set a higher bar for schools by demonstrating they can meet the highest standard of green building design, the Living Building Challenge, fairly quickly. 

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8:03am

Wed January 30, 2013
Environment

How green can you go? Seattle celebrates Deep Green building

Seattle is leading the way in environmentally-sound building design. Sweden’s international construction firm Skanska has broken ground on a building in Fremont that promises to bring a whole new level of green to the city. 

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