Certified Case Studies

Project Overview Project Name Fort Totten Alternative CTE School Certification Type Zero Energy Location Fort Totten, North Dakota Typology New Building Start of Occupancy 08/31/2017 Occupancy Type Education Photo Credit: Dangerbird Productions Four Winds Alternative and CTE High School, located in Fort Totten, ND on the Spirit Lake Reservation, is the first school designed to…

Project Overview Project Name Humanscale Chicago Certification Type Petal Certified Location Chicago, IL Typology Interior, Commercial Start of Occupancy 05/14/2024 Owner Occupied Humanscale Occupancy Type Retail, Showroom Photo Credit: Humanscale Humanscale is the leading designer and manufacturer of ergonomic products that improve the health and comfort of work life. Humanscale completed construction on a new…

Project Overview Project Name MIT Building 55 Certification Type Zero Carbon 1.0 Location Cambridge, MA Typology New Building Start of Occupancy 12/01/2022 Occupancy Type Educational Photo Credit: © AW-ARCH / Photo: Florian Holzherr The Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building (Building 55) is a complementary addition to the iconic Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54),…

Project Overview Project Name Pā Reo Certification Type Living Certified Location Otaki, New Zealand Typology Building Photo Credit: ANDY SPAIN Pā Reo Campus, in Otaki, New Zealand, is envisioned to reflect and support ngā kaupapa (the protocols) o Te Wānanga o Raukawa. Creation of Pā Reo – an enclave of one administrative (Te Moana o…

Project Overview Project Name Aspen Distillery Certification Type Living Certification Location Basalt, Colorado Typology New Building Start of Occupancy June 2023 Occupancy Type Warehouse (Industrial) Photo Credit: Aspen Vodka Aspen Distillers, located in Pitkin County, Colorado, was designed and built as a new kind of distillery — one that produces exceptional spirits in harmony with…

Project Overview Project Name 2517 Eastlake Certification Type Petal Certified under Living Building Challenge v3.1 Petals Place, Energy, Beauty Location Seattle, Washington Typology Building Start of Occupancy 04/13/2024 Occupancy Type Residential / Mixed-Use Photo Credit: SKY SOLUTIONS NORTHWEST Project Team Owner Washington Holdings Owner Pollard Entities General Contractor Compass Architects Hewitt Landscape Architect Hewitt MEP…

Project Overview Project Name Neumann Monson Iowa City Studio Certification Type Core Green Building Certification Location Iowa City, Iowa Typology Existing Building Start of Occupancy 10/05/2023 Owner Occupied Neumann Monson Architects Occupancy Type Commercial Neumann Monson Architects Located in a 15-story mixed-use building within the downtown district of Iowa City is Neumann Monson Architects Iowa…

I01: Limits to Growth The history of the project site always has and always will begin with indigenous people. Central Oregon figures prominently in the transhumance lifestyle of several indigenous groups and most consistently considered home by the Warm Springs, Wasco, Klamath and Northern Paiute people. However, this region saw many peoples and tribes move…

When the project was initiated in 2019, the Davis Center occupied 3 separate buildings (Rice, Hardy, and Jenness Houses), all converted from single-family homes. An unoccupied fourth residential building – Chandler House – sat at the far southern edge of the site. These buildings represented the remains of a once-residential neighborhood that had slowly been…