The Living Building Challenge™ is the most rigorous performance standard for the built environment. It calls for the creation of building projects at all scales that operate as cleanly, beautifully and efficiently as nature’s architecture. To be certified under the Challenge, projects must meet a series of ambitious performance requirements, including net zero energy, waste, and water over a minimum of 12 months of continuous occupancy.
The challenge also ensures the creation of truly healthy sustainable spaces that promote occupant health, well-being and productivity.
The workshop provides an in-depth introduction to the Living Building Challenge ideology, the certification process and its application in the Chinese Market.
** Architects / designers may also be interested in a Roundtable on 'mindful Materials' between 19:00-20:00. For more information visit this link.
A GreenBiz 30 under 30 sustainable business leader, James Connelly is the Vice President of Product and Strategic Growth at the International Living Future Institute.
As VP of Strategic Growth, he leads ILFI in developing strategy and cultivating new business and partnership opportunities to grow the Institute’s impact and capabilities globally.
As VP of Products, James provides strategic leadership for the Institute’s corporate and manufacturing initiatives including, Living Product Challenge (a program that re-imagines the design and manufacturing of products to function as elegantly and efficiently as anything found in the natural world) and Declare (an innovative ingredients transparency label and database of non-toxic sustainably sourced products).
James leads the Institute’s strategic consulting for corporations and conducts technical consulting for high profile Living Building Challenge projects both in the US and internationally.
Prior to joining the Institute in 2012, James received a Fulbright fellowship to conduct research on green building rating systems in China. James is frequent national and international speaker on regenerative design, sustainable business, ecological manufacturing and affordable housing. He is an avid writer and his research and commentary has been featured in news outlets such as China Dialogue, Trim Tab, BuildingGreen, GreenBiz and Engineering News Record.
"The Living Building Challenge is the most rigorous benchmark of sustainability in the built environment. It is the gold standard against which all others are measured."
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To learn more about the Living Building Challenge visit this link.
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