Sustainability Report

The first Living Building of its kind by The Miller Hull Partnership

Certificates

LEED • Platinum • BD+C

Living Building Challenge • Living • New Building

3.1

Embodied carbon

Carbon Neutral

Carbon Emissions

302

kg CO₂-eq./m²

The Kendeda Building was certified as the 28th “living building” worldwide under the Living Building Challenge 3.1. The Living Building Challenge is among the world’s most rigorous proven performance standards for buildings with the goal of having a building that gives more than it takes. A major part of the Living Building Challenge is implementing materials and products with proven origin, makeup and planned afterlife.

Life Cycle Stages A-D, 60-year reference

Skanska and Michigan State University Study on materials reuse: For every pound of reuse we had carbon reduction of ~1.5 lbs. CO2. 

Skanska study on cast in place concrete used at Kendeda shows a ~150,000 kg CO2 below the carbon leadership forum industry average. 