Category: Active Design

Expectations for supporting good health in rental housing has come a long way since HUD came up with their eight basic features of a healthy home. They are homes that are dry, clean, safe, well-ventilated, pest-free, contaminant free, well-maintained and thermally controlled. To be fair, those eight are certainly the…

In a word, EVERYONE should be your high-performance building partner! If you have been involved in any aspect of creating or remodeling buildings in a way that improves the health of building occupants, you know that there are a lot of entities involved. And every single one can push a…

Not everyone has just shy of 30 acres and nearly a half billion dollars to start a project.  But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a lot from those who do - like real estate entrepreneur Peter Rummell and the project he's putting together in Jacksonville. The District Jacksonville will be…

There are many opportunities to show the world that you care about the impact your building has on the planet and the people who use it. LEED, WEL, Energy-Star, Passive House, Enterprise Communities, and on and on… But you may not have heard of the world’s leading certification system that…