Amanda Sturgeon: The greenest commercial building in the world

Date: 24 March 2015 Time: 3.00 pm

This lecture/ workshop features Amanda Sturgeon talking about the greenest commercial building in the world, the Bullitt Centre.

The goal of the Bullitt Centre is to drive change in the marketplace faster and further by showing what's possible today. The era of harm reduction, half steps and lesser evils is behind us. As a society, we need to be bold in ways once unimaginable, to address the huge challenges of our own unsustainability. This two hour training session will look in-depth at how the Bullitt Centre meets these challenges with a facus on Net Zero Energy. The trainer Amanda Sturgeon is a sustainability leader, Aarchitect and Executive Director of ILFI - home of the Living Building Challenge. Amanda also works in the Bullitt Centre.

Outcomes from the lecture include:

Introduction to the Living Building Challenge Imperatives.
How the Bullitt Centre (4500m²- 6 story) addresses these challenges to deliver innovative solutions through engineering strategies
A focus on how Net Zero Energy drives demand reduction whilst meeting comfort requirements with onside renewables
Commercial reality of building and leasing a Living Building

Amanda Sturgeon, FAIA, LFA, LEED Fellow

International Living Future Institute, Executive Director

Amanda is a licensed architect with fifteen years' experience designing and managing some of the most sustainable buildings in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to joining the International Living Future Institute she was a Senior Associate at Perkins+Will where she co-directed the Sustainable Design Initiative across 20 offices worldwide and managed numerous sustainable projects. Amanda was a founding board member of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council and a recent board member of AIA Seattle. Amanda won the Betterbricks Architect award in 2008 and has been involved in leading many local committees for USGBC and AIA. She has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Sydney, Australia, and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has been named one of the10 Most Powerful Women in Sustainability.