Super-Sustainable Bullitt Center is ENR Editors' Choice for Best Project in 2013

LBC certification is likely by next January. "This is in the cloudiest city in the lower 48 states," Schwer adds. "If you can do it in Seattle, you can do it anywhere else."

Project Team

Owner-Developer: Bullitt Foundation

Architect: The Miller Hull Partnership LLC

General Contractor: Schuchart

Engineers: DCI Engineers, structural; PAE Consulting Engineers, mechanical, electrical and plumbing; Springline Design, civil; Terracon, geotechnical; 2020 Engineering, water system

Consultants: Berger Partnership, landscape architect; Integrated Design Lab, Puget Sound College of Built Environments-University of Washington, lighting; RDH Building Envelope Consultants; Solar Design Associates Inc.

Nadine M. Post, ENR's editor-at-large for buildings, is an award-winning journalist with 45 years of experience covering trends, issues, innovations, controversies and challenging projects. Post has written about many industry giants, including 10 ENR Award of Excellence winners. And she has covered disasters, failures and attacks, including the 1993 bombing and the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center. Project stories include the redevelopment of the World Trade Center; the 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa; Los Angeles’ Disney Concert Hall; and Seattle's Bullitt Center and Rainier Square Tower. In 1985, Post wrote McGraw-Hill's book Restoring the Statue of Liberty (1986) for the restoration’s architects—Richard S. Hayden and Thierry W. Despont.

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