The Bullitt Center is a six-story office building located in Seattle, Washington. It was completed in 2012 and designed to be the greenest commercial office building in the world. A non-profit group called the Bullitt Foundation built the building to focus on the upcoming urban ecology and tenant ready-spaces. The building cost $30 million to complete. Is one of the few buildings in the world to achieve the Living Building Challenge. It is obligated to create as much energy as it uses in a year, and capture and treat rainwater for all its needs for at least 12 continuous months and to meet rigorous standards for “Red List” compliant materials and for the quality of its indoor environment. In all, the building has acquired all the pedals of the Living Building Challenge and is one of the few to do so.
This building is a clear example of how the future buildings across the world should model. It is one one of the few buildings of the world to meet all the requirements of the the Living Building Challenge, making it a marvel in itself. The world has been using basic energy standards for numerous decades and its now time for a change. These strategies should become more obsolete at a faster pace than it is now, in order to ensure more sufficient environment and to guarantee less harmful impacts that we are already emitting into the earth.
The tactics that buildings should emulate, according the Living Building Challenge are in place relative its pedals, which are:
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