The aim of Rocky Mountain Institute’s Built Environment Team (BET)  is to transform the built environment into a sustainable and regenerative global ecology.  With an emphasis on achieving energy efficiency through integrated design, the BET has contributed to numerous high-performance projects throughout the world.  Two of the projects they’ve worked on happen to be in our backyard here in the Northwest:

1.  Starbucks Retail Store in Hillsboro, Oregon, which was awarded LEED Gold for Commercial Interiors.  NEEA’s BetterBricks worked on the store prototype development.

2.  Oregon Health & Science’s Center for Health & Healing in Portland, Oregon, which recently won BOMA International’s Outstanding Building of the Year award.  NEEA’s BetterBricks provided support of this project including funding the district airflow studies for natural ventilation analysis, charette support and post-occupancy evaluation.

The following are short video case studies for each project.

Oregon Health & Science’s Center for Health & Healing, Portland, Oregon

• Watch the video case study

• Download the Rocky Mountain Institute case study

• Download the BetterBricks case study

Starbucks Retail Store, Hillsboro, Oregon

• Watch the video case study

• Download the Rocky Mountain Institute case study

For a complete list of Rocky Mountain Institute BET video case studies, check out their website.

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