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Frick Environmental Center Achieves Prestigious Living Building Challenge Certification
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Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

May 02, 2018, 15:00 ET

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We are proud to have one of the greenest buildings in the world that also functions as a tremendous resource for our community. It is truly a regional treasure.

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PITTSBURGH (PRWEB) May 02, 2018 -- On Friday, May 4 at 3:30 p.m. the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy in partnership with the City of Pittsburgh invites the public to attend the announcement of Living Building Challenge Certification for the Frick Environmental Center. After more than a year of extensive sustainability work the shared project between the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the City of Pittsburgh, received the Living Building Challenge (LBC) Certification, the world’s most rigorous proven performance standard by the International Living Future Institute. The Frick Environmental Center is the first Living Building in the U.S. that is municipally owned and free and open to the public. To qualify, the Environmental Center must produce as much energy as it consumes annually, eliminate toxic and harmful chemicals, and collect and treat its own water.

The nonprofit Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy partnered with the City of Pittsburgh, architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, landscape architect LaQuatra Bonci Associates, and construction manager P.J. Dick Incorporated to make this “net zero” energy and water facility a reality.

“What a great accomplishment for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the City, said Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto. “Together, we are continuing our leadership in green building standards and environmental education for all.”

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy President and CEO Jayne Miller says, “We are proud to have one of the greenest buildings in the world that also functions as a tremendous resource for our community. It is truly a regional treasure.”

The 16,000 square-foot Frick Environmental Center which is located on the edge of the 644-acre Frick Park, was completed in 2016. It was named a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum building in November 2017, and teams have since worked to complete the intense Living Building Challenge. The Environmental Center is now one of only 21 buildings in the world to achieve Living Building Challenge Certification. The Environmental Center is the second Living Building Challenge Certified building in the city and state, sharing that honor with the Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes. However, the Frick Environmental Center is the first building in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania to meet the designation under v2.1 of the Living Building Challenge.

“No building in western Pennsylvania has ever been built according to such rigorous performance standards,” said PJ Dick Project Manager Noah Shaltes. “By the project’s end, we had impressed the importance of sustainable building on more than 100 members of the building and construction industry. The team’s commitment to vetting materials was key to successful certification.”

This week Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy’s Sustainability Coordinator Maureen Olinzock will travel to Portland, Ore., to receive the official Living Building certification at the Living Future Unconference. This is yet another accolade for the Frick Environmental Center, which has garnered almost a dozen awards.

The Frick Environmental Center was made possible by more than 1,000 individuals involved in the public visioning and planning process since 2011 and the more than 600 donors and funders whose generosity helped this project come to fruition. The Environmental Center represents a continued partnership between the nonprofit Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the City of Pittsburgh to provide a free facility that allows learners of all ages to partake in environmental education in a cutting-edge space. The Environmental Center serves as the gateway to Frick Park and as a space for environmental classes, events and programs.

Please contact Jenn Dailey, Director of Marketing Communications at [email protected], 412-682-7275 x234 (work) or 281-658-4008 (cell) for more information.

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About the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy was founded in December 1996 by a group of citizens concerned with the deteriorating conditions of Pittsburgh’s historic city parks. A non-profit organization, the Parks Conservancy works closely with the City of Pittsburgh under an official public-private partnership agreement to restore and improve the city’s park system to its full potential. To date, the Parks Conservancy has raised over $105 million and completed 17 major park improvement projects. Annually the Parks Conservancy works with thousands of volunteers and provides programming for more than 5,000 children.

About Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Founded in 1965, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is noted for elegant and humane design, ranging from modest houses to large academic, civic, cultural, and corporate buildings. To date, the firm has received more than 675 design awards, including three AIA Top Ten Green Project Awards and the AIA Architecture Firm Award. In addition, the firm has designed academic buildings for Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale; cultural gathering spaces such as the award-winning High Meadow Residences and Studio at Fallingwater, and Liberty Bell Pavilion; and city halls in Seattle and Newport Beach, Calif.

About P.J. Dick Incorporated

PJ Dick has managed more than $9 billion in construction activity in the Mid-Atlantic region and is consistently ranked one of the Top 100 Builders in the nation by Engineering News Record Magazine. For over three decades, they have provided comprehensive construction services in the areas of general contracting, design-build, construction management, preconstruction, and project management. Having constructed more than 50+ LEED projects, PJ Dick has built more USGBC Certified LEED buildings in the region than any other local contractor.

About LaQuatra Bonci Associates

LaQuatra Bonci Associates is a landscape architecture, urban design, and land planning firm based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We believe in the art of the designed landscape as a powerful and transformative tool to restore and enhance ecology, promote community well-being, and add economic vitality. Drawing on the rich legacy of our profession, we are committed to understanding historic precedents, public constituents, and site intricacies to develop unique and contextual design solutions. It is our passion to create innovative, elegant and timeless landscapes.

About the International Living Future Institute

The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) is a nonprofit working to build an ecologically-minded, restorative world for all people. Using principles of social and environmental justice, ILFI seeks to counter climate change by pushing for an urban environment free of fossil fuels. ILFI runs the Living Building Challenge, which is the world’s most aspirational green building standard, and several other programs: the Living Product Challenge, the Living Community Challenge, and the Reveal, Declare and Just labels. These programs develop a green framework for living in a 21st-century world.

About the Living Building Challenge

The Living Building Challenge (LBC) is the world’s most aspirational standard for green buildings. Going above and beyond LEED certification, Living Buildings strive for net-zero or net-positive energy, are free of toxic chemicals and lower their energy footprint many times below the generic commercial structure. To be certified under the LBC, projects must meet a series of ambitious performance requirements over a minimum of 12 months of continuous occupancy. There are three types of certification under the Challenge: Living Building Certification, Petal Certification and Zero Energy Building Certification.

Jenn Dailey, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, http://www.pittsburghparks.org, 412-682-7275 x234, [email protected]

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