The Living Building Challenge is the Cascadia Region Green Building Council's call to the design and construction community to pursue true sustainability in the built environment. Imagine a building that generates all of its own energy with renewable non-toxic resources, captures and treats all of its water, and operates efficiently and for maximum beauty. Now imagine an industry ready to design and construct such buildings: these are Living Buildings!  There are currently more than 50 Living Building projects in the design or construction phase throughout North America.

Jessica will also discuss Pharos. The missing "nutrition label" for building materials, the Pharos Project aims to accelerate the transformation of the building materials industry. Using a transparent web-based model, the overarching goal of the project is to harness the power of consumer choice to generate a materials economy that is open, fair, efficient, renewable, non-toxic, and self-reporting.  Visit www.pharosproject.net to learn more.

Bio – Jessica Woolliams has been working to mainstream sustainable buildings through advancing policy, programs and training for a decade. Jessica comes to Cascadia from Light House Sustainable Building Centre, where she was a founding director. Jessica brings extensive green building consulting experience in both the public and non-profit realms. Through her work at Harvard University she managed the design and implementation of Harvard’s first GHG Inventory, Harvard’s first LEED certification and Harvard's first renewable energy purchases that brought Harvard to being the 2nd largest higher-educational purchaser of green power in North America. As a consultant, Jessica was helped establish Green Buildings BC, Canada's first green building program in 2000. Jessica has published both academically and professionally and has lectured at Harvard, BCIT, SFU and UBC.

This event will be held at Light House Sustainable Building Centre, located at 1575 Johnston Street, just East of the Public Market in the heart of Granville Island. Our centre is on the second floor and accessible via the glass door and staircase on the southwest corner of the building.

Register by telephone at 604.682.5960 or email info@sustainablebuildingcentre.com
 
Light House Sustainable Building Centre is a non-profit society dedicated to improving the sustainability of the built environment. For detailed information about our services and events visit www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com, call us at 604-682-5960 or visit our resource centre on Granville Island.