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The Living Building Challenge: Understanding and Responding to the Living Building Challenge
Mark your calendar for a presentation by Bruce Coldham, FAIA of Coldham & Hartman Architects. Mr. Coldham will discuss his work on the recently completed Bechtel Environmental Classroom at Smith College, the fifth building in the world to meet the Living Building Challenge.
About the Living Building Challenge
The Living Building Challenge is the world's most demanding design and performance-based environmental building standard. The Challenge is comprised of seven performance categories called Petals: Place, Water, Energy, Health & Happiness, Materials, Equity and Beauty.
About Bruce Coldham, FAIA
Bruce Coldham has over 35 years of experience in the practice of architecture in the US, and Australia. Particular dedications to ecologically sustainable design and cohousing have been a consistent characteristic of his professional and academic career. His environmental design research in the M.E.D. program at the Yale University School of Architecture resulted in "Design Strategies for Sustainable Communities".
Mr. Coldham has experience in environmental design research, having developed a particular expertise in energy-efficient / bio-climatic design, and ecologically benign construction and land-use practices; stated simply (however inaccurately) as sustainable design. Since 2003 Coldham has been a member of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) Board, in June of 2005 becoming Board Chair.
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LocationThe Gulf of Maine Research Institute (View)
350 Commercial St,
Portland, ME , ME 04101
United States
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