Bullitt Center Tour

May 24, 2012

Today a co-worker at GGLO arranged a tour of the Bullitt Center construction site tour. This building is being touted as the greenest commercial building in the world. The President of the Bullitt Foundation and founder of Earth Day, Denis Hayes is a huge advocate of The Living Building Challenge. The building will be required to be self-sufficient for energy and water for at least 12 continuous months. An employee at Point32, the developer of the project, led us around. Miller Hull is the designer.

Every pipe and fitting, etc is not made from PVC or contain lead, both red-list materials in the Living Building Challenge.

All the glulam 2x6s are FCS Pure certified wood.

I’d take this office view any day.

Framing for the skylight.

I can’t wait to see the framework going up to support the massive PV panel roof that overhangs the sidewalk in Capitol Hill.

If you want to know about the project, visit their blog http://bullittcenter.org/