GGLO is part of a team comprised of some of the Seattle area's leading green building professionals that have formed The Restorative Design Collective to build a cutting-edge green science building for the Bertschi School, an independent elementary school on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Working pro bono, the team is designing the new science building to meet the standards of the Living Building Challenge, a "deep-green" building program which encourages projects to achieve self-sufficiency by generating all of their own energy with renewable resources, harvesting and treating all of their own water on site, and operating at maximum levels of efficiency with a healthy indoor environment.
The team has just entered the construction document phase of the design process. A building permit is expected in March, and the completion of construction is projected for November 2010.
For more information on this ground-breaking project, please visit GGLO's Insight pages. 