I’m sure not many of us have heard such a building before. Then check this report by Christine Dell’Amore at National Geographic News. It’s good for our inspiration.
The first “living building” was set in the woods at a campus’s environmental-research facility, launched in 2006, and was arguably the most extreme green building in the world. The builders said the building meets 16 requirements to earn that status. Among them are as followed.
1. The building must be run by solar energy.
2. The drinking water must take rainwater as resource, which is captured and stored until later get purified for drinking.
3. The building should use porous pavement, which will absorb storm-water runoff with no waste water.
4. Material used for the center building must come from within 500 miles, and only use fallen trees or trees slated for removal.
At that moment, another 60 project teams have signed up to pursue the same certification. That’s good to hear. I hope our earth has more and more such building, not only at research facility. Read here.