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Achieving Sustainable Solutions Starts with a Simple Question: What If?
What if unused and end-of-life electronic products didn’t have to be discarded? What if our city’s leading corporations and organizations, with the support of their employees, collected these products...
View ArticleVideo: It’s Time for Building Products to Become Transparent
Click here to view the embedded video. Interface, the world’s largest designer and maker of carpet tile, is deeply committed to sustainability and regularly implements an aggressive environmental...
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What is the Status of the Wood Certification Gap?
A version of this article was originally published in the Summer 2012 issue of Trim Tab, the International Living Future Institute’s magazine for transformational people and design. To see this and...
View ArticleAdvocating for Transparency: Six Tips for Thinking About Building and...
Perkins+Will has a strong commitment to promoting material health and transparency in the built environment, which includes creating the industry’s first free, universally accessible database of its...
View ArticleThe Advantages of Urban Agriculture
Since its founding in 1936, Perkins+Will has been dedicated to the philosophy that design has the power to improve society overall. In keeping with this philosophy, we take a triple bottom line...
View ArticleLocations Change, Principles Remain
We’ve all been there – whether it’s moving your items in to a dorm in college, relocating your family to a different home, assisting a client in change management before they occupy their new space, or...
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One Man’s Trash is Another Planet’s Treasure
Let’s face it: trash is not something people enjoy talking about, looking at, or generally interacting with. If we did, we’d keep it around us longer instead of quickly disposing of it. Today, a...
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The Los Angeles River: a Second Chance for Positive Impact
The much-maligned Los Angeles River flows 51 miles from its headwaters in the San Fernando Valley to the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach, capturing water from an 871-square mile region. Its path through...
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Perkins+Will Celebrates Earth Day 2013
Every Earth Day, employees across Perkins+Will take time to celebrate our commitment to sustainability and to reflect on how we could further improve our impact on the planet. If you didn’t already...
View ArticleDesign’s Big New Trend: Making It Count
I can say with great confidence and delight that the design industry is moving toward a higher standard of holistic impact than I expected to see in my lifetime. In 2008, Metropolis announced that “a...
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Farewell, Micro Fridge; Hello, Energy Savings
A slight chill hangs in the air, leaves crunch underfoot; autumn has returned and school is back in session at Bridgewater State University. Over five hundred students have a new place to both live and...
View ArticleThe Calm Before the Storm
The following post is an abridgment of an article in the September 2013 issue of Today’s Facility Manager. To read the full article as published, including links to several resiliency-related...
View ArticleNoah’s Ark: A Model for Resilient, Affordable, Waterfront Communities
Every year, Perkins+Will’s design leadership hosts an exciting internal design competition across the firm. This year’s challenge, which centered on the increasingly complex landscape of affordable...
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The Resource Infinity Loop: Proactive Steps for Urban Ecosystems
City dwellers tend to think of the urban ecosystem as one comprising non-human species like plants, trees, birds and animals. We believe that by nurturing these external elements, we can heal the...
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Building for the Future: Exploring Einstein’s New LEED Silver Medical Center
Einstein Healthcare Network’s newest medical center, the largest healthcare facility built in southeastern Pennsylvania in over a decade, earned LEED NC Silver certification a few months ago – just in...
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Five Favorite Moments from Greenbuild 2013
As Co-Director of Perkins+Will’s Sustainable Design Initiative, I was energized by this year’s Greenbuild Conference in Philadelphia. With more stakeholders at the table than ever – I talked to as many...
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The Food is the Medicine: Sow Much Good and the Food Access Paradigm
Social purpose is at the core of what we do at Perkins+Will. Through our Social Responsibility Initiative (SRI), Perkins+Will contributes the equivalent of a 15-person firm working full-time to provide...
View Article2013 Was a Conversation on Sustainability
Thought leaders at Perkins+Will have been thinking about sustainability – the way that our decisions today will affect future generations – long before the term was common parlance. While today’s...
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Fixing the Toxic Loopholes in LEED V4 and EPDs
LEED V4 and Environmental Product Declarations have a giant, toxic loophole that designers, green professionals, and the USGBC need to know about. After digging around in the International Standard...
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Green Guaranteed: 13 Projects Certified in 2013
Design professionals across Perkins+Will are constantly pushing to design the most sustainable buildings, spaces, neighborhoods, and systems. We recognize the resulting innovation in many ways, both...
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