Amazon, Google, and Harvard demonstrate the value created by regenerative buildings

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The roof of Google's new building is coated with a curving sheath of building integrated photovoltaics, an innovation known as "dragonscale." / Credit: Google
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The roof of Google's new building is coated with a curving sheath of building integrated photovoltaics, an innovation known as "dragonscale." / Credit: Google

Featuring all-electric systems, water reuse and innovative solar power, these buildings improve 'the health and resilience of economies, cultures, and people'

Established by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) in 2006, the Living Building Challenge (LBC), the preeminent certification program for "regenerative" buildings, covers seven building performance...

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