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An Environmental Model for the Next 250 Years: Seattle’s Bullitt Center

A key goal of Seattle’s Bullitt Center project is to demonstrate that by holistically integrating a synergistic combination of performance-based design, engineering, and operating strategies, a good-sized commercial office development can achieve those zero nets today—without heavy reliance on overly complex or highly customized systems.

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ULI Releases Reports Focused on Building Healthy Places

The role land use plays in creating communities that encourage healthy living choices is explored in two new ULI publications, Intersections: Health and the Built Environment and Ten Principles for Building Healthy Places.

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Building Healthy Places: Doing Well and Good

At a panel at the ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago, Anne Warhover, president and chief executive officer of the Colorado Health Foundation (CHF), noted that 90 percent of overall health depends on factors other than healthcare, such as lifestyle choices, education, and income.

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Making Healthy Places Happen

Making healthy places happen requires vision and commitment, according to a panel of ULI J.C. Nichols Prize laureates, who offered insight into the challenges of implementing a healthy living culture.

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Recent Articles

  • Healthier Work Environments Attracts Top Tenants, Talent

    November 15, 2013

    Workplaces exist for people and must evolve for them, said Robert Jernigan, principal and managing director for Gensler in Los Angeles, at a panel at the ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago.

  • Incorporating Healthy Practices into New Residential Development

    Moderator Tim Sullivan, practice leader for Meyers Research LLC, a Kennedy Wilson Company, in Rancho Santa Fe, California, led a session at the ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago with these questions: What do healthy communities look like? What are the components? Can you build them from scratch?

  • Building Healthy Places: A Stairway Renaissance

    October 17, 2013

    Designers and officials are promoting a return to an old staple of active lifestyles and designing places with stairways that are inviting, safe, and comfortable.

  • After Sandy: ULI Panel Looks at Improving Community Resiliency

    October 11, 2013

    A ULI report offers guidance on how to build communities in a way that helps preserve the environment, boost economic prosperity, and foster a high quality of life.

  • Solar Energy May Be Slow to Pay Dividends

    September 20, 2013

    California-based developer John McNellis shares his firm’s real-world experience using solar power on a mixed-use project in Palo Alto.

  • CEO Perspective: Our Work toward Building Healthy Places

    September 15, 2013

    This past August, the Washington Post reported on the exploding popularity of D.C.’s three-year-old Capital Bikeshare program, pointing out that bike docking stations throughout the city are having trouble meeting demand from both residents and visitors seeking to bike from one place to another.

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