A Living Building: Frick Environmental Center
The Living Building Challenge‘s reputation as the highest quality sustainability certification standard for building environments is continuing to grow within the architecture, design and construction fields. Each month new projects are registering for the Challenge, and A&D professionals can no longer remain in the dark about how it works. The Frick Environmental Center (FEC), unveiled to the public in September, is the world’s first municipally owned, Living Building Challenge-targeted project. The project is a joint venture between the City of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to breathe new life into an environmental education center nestled in downtown Pittsburgh’s 644-acre Frick Park. Designed by architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ), the building will provide “experiential learning to a projected 20,000 K-12 students and hundreds of thousands of people who visit each year.” BCJ designed and supported engineering the building to achieve both Living Building Challenge and LEED Platinum standards. It’s …
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