Super-Sustainable Bullitt Center is ENR Editors' Choice for Best Project in 2013
The 50,000-sq-ft Bullitt Center is expected to last 250 years.
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Custom steel connections for Bullitt Center�s four levels of heavy-timber framing were made even more challenging by the architecturally expressed structure.
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Custom steel connections on timber framing.
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Tall windows help with daylighting.
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The Seattle office building is on course to become the nation's first urban mid-rise spec office building certified under the rigorous Living Building Challenge.
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Rooftop solar array is designed to produce as much electricity annually as the building uses.
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Hybrid exposed structure includes steel for earthquake-load resistance.
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LBC certification is likely by next January. "This is in the cloudiest city in the lower 48 states," Schwer adds. "If you can do it in Seattle, you can do it anywhere else."
Project Team
Owner-Developer: Bullitt Foundation
Architect: The Miller Hull Partnership LLC
General Contractor: Schuchart
Engineers: DCI Engineers, structural; PAE Consulting Engineers, mechanical, electrical and plumbing; Springline Design, civil; Terracon, geotechnical; 2020 Engineering, water system
Consultants: Berger Partnership, landscape architect; Integrated Design Lab, Puget Sound College of Built Environments-University of Washington, lighting; RDH Building Envelope Consultants; Solar Design Associates Inc.
