Engineering a Living Building
Establish an energy target and design a building to meet that target
Reduce the energy load and verify every design decision with energy modeling
Water usage requires as much scrutiny as energy, and must be aggressively reduced
Think about comfort and factors influencing comfort
Provide Intelligent Building Systems for metering, monitoring, data gathering, and analytics
In a Living Building everything does more than one thing
Solve the humidity problem for a Living Building in a hot and humid climate
Design and plan a 12-month performance period