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From: Frank A. Coluccio8/14/2009 1:37:02 PM
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The Living Building Challenge™

Developed under the tutelage of Dr. David Eisenberg, Director of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) directed at exposing the "Code, Regulatory and Systemic Barriers Affecting Living Building Projects".

29 July 2009

Executive Summary

There is an awakening to the reality that long-held assumptions on which much current regulatory thinking is based are no longer valid.

The development of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council’s Living Building Challenge marked the onset of the next stage in understanding the relationships between built projects and the natural and human systems in which they are embedded. The Living Building Challenge establishes benchmarks for project teams seeking to move beyond current green building standards, such as the LEED® Rating Systems, into a performance-based, post-occupancy evaluation of a project’s efforts to maximize efficiency and sustainability. The Living Building Challenge sets substantially higher performance requirements across a more comprehensive set of criteria than required by regulation, or any rating system currently in use. Projects striving to meet these criteria need to employ innovative strategies and systems. The result is often much greater difficulty navigating the maze of regulatory approvals than projects seeking only to meet minimum regulatory requirements. This report is an initial exploration of the broader set of barriers, their origins, and strategies to overcome them.

Cont.: dcat.net

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