Implementing aggressive water goals
Capturing and reusing rainwater onsite in new developments significantly reduces the increasing demand for our regional water supplies.

By RACHAEL MEYER and MARK GREY
Special to the Journal

Harnessing the potential of mixed-use communities
Whether it's an office environment capable of absorbing housing or a space that can be shifted to hospitality if markets change, the most sustainable building is the one most flexible to last.

By RYAN DIRAIMO
Graphite Design Group

Toward a path to zero carbon: building renovations and circular economy principles
The embodied carbon footprint of an interior renovation can be drastically reduced by taking ownership of what already exists in a space, repurposing materials rather than sending them to a landfill and seeking out unused stock.

By JENN CHEN and JUSTIN SCHWARTZHOFF
LMN ARCHITECTS

Old building, new tricks: Designing adaptive reuse
for long-lasting relevance
The most sustainable building is the one that is already built -- but only if it is designed to live on.

By MIKE JOBES and JIM HANFORD
Miller Hull

A primer on campus decarbonization in Washington
Campus property owners must strategize solutions to plan, fund and successfully execute work that aligns with the common goal of decarbonizing across many project types such as new construction, existing buildings and utility infrastructure modernization.

By LYLE KECK
Affiliated Engineers Inc.

Reducing embodied carbon in concrete construction
Mixing water-repelling pore blockers with concrete helps minimize a project's carbon footprint while maximizing the lifetime of new construction.

By LINDSEY MONTGOMERY
Hycrete

Creativity and innovation are hallmarks
of sustainability at PDX Airport
The carbon-conscious renovation and expansion at PDX includes a huge mass-timber roof sourced regionally, repurposed materials to avoid waste and cut carbon, and wells drilled under the airport to create a unique heating and cooling system.

By JOE SCHNEIDER and STEVE CLEM
Skanska USA

Hiding in Plain Sight: Sustainability and resilience beyond the terminal
PDX's new parking, rental car services and operations center additions are designed for environmental efficiency and traveler ease in the earthquake-prone region.

By TOM ROBBINS
Integrus

Promoting residential adaptive reuse
in Seattle through policy
To meet Seattle's ambitious climate goals, we need to shift the conversation from reducing energy code requirements to quantifying and capitalizing on embodied carbon reductions.

By DEVIN KLEINER, MYER HARRELL and ELIZABETH GRACE
Perkins&Will

Making old buildings new again:
the case for adaptive reuse
Extending a structure's operational life helps maximize the built environment's embodied energy and sustain the spirit older buildings bring to their communities.

By MICHAEL LEONARD
MLA Engineering

Curbing construction's carbon impact from all angles
Making new buildings more energy-efficient is a good start, but the biggest opportunity to decarbonize construction lies with reducing the embodied-carbon impact of concrete and optimizing our existing building stock.

By JULIANNA PLANT
Lease Crutcher Lewis

A blueprint for environmental
responsibility in construction
Focusing on waste diversion early in the process for the Symetra Center renovation in downtown Bellevue helped Turner reuse, repurpose and recycle more than 402 tons of construction materials.

By LYDIA LIANG
Turner