NEWS AND EVENTS
Mohawk’s McLennan Design lichen-inspired carpet awarded the Living Product Challenge Petal Certification!
We are thrilled to announce that Mohawk has received the first Living Product Challenge Petal Certification for a flooring product with the Lichen Carpet Collection! Congratulations to Mohawk for leading the pack in healthy building materials! We can’t wait to see the...
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Lichen Carpet Collection wins Best of NeoCon Gold Award
We're excited to announce that The Lichen Collection, a collaboration between McLennan Design and Mohawk Group, has won a Best of NeoCon 2017 Gold award. The Lichen Collection is a new modular plank carpet system resulting from innovations that merge leading concepts...
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Heron Hall Gets Featured in the Latest Issue of The Seattle Times, Pacific Northwest Magazine
Heron Hall just got a full feature article in the latest issue of The Seattle Times! Check it out to get a more in depth glimpse of the project, how it started, the vision behind it, and all the unique characteristics of this beautiful home! We're thrilled to be able...
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How Green Building Can Support Sustainable Forestry: Jason F. McLennan on upcoming panel in Seattle
The Pacific Northwest has long been a leader in the green building movement and is home to the most productive forest ecosystem in the world. In spite of a strong forest ethic in the region and a desire to lead by example, we have struggled to incorporate the products...
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“Living Buildings” Increase Property Values | Real Wealth Network interview with Jason F. McLennan
One of the very first podcasts on iTunes, The Real Wealth Show is hosted by Kathy Fettke – the Co-Founder of Real Wealth Network and an expert real estate investor. Jason F. McLennan was a guest on the Real Wealth Network and talked about how “Living Buildings” are...
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Arcade Magazine + Thomas Knittel // Resilient Design: Modeling Architecture’s Future in the Face of Climate Change
Arcade Northwest Issue 34.3, just published an article about our orphanage, clinic, and administrative center under construction in Haiti. Thomas Knittel, Design Partner at McLennan Design, shares the story behind how the design came to fruition based on an approach...
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Forbes Magazine & Jason McLennan: How Changing Our Built Environment Can Save The Planet
…whether it’s buildings, materials, products, or community systems, I try to aim for the ideal and use inspiration rather than guilt to bring others along. That, in turn, helps identify the real barriers to change, and then I look for as long of a stick as I can to...
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Innovation Winter Quarterly 2016: The Story Behind the Design of the Foundation Enfant Jesus Orphanage in Haiti
Innovation magazine’s 2016 winter quarterly, the publication of the Industrial Designers Society of America, features an article written by Tom Knittel. The issue focuses on design and storytelling, where ‘…the story is the primary motivating event that leads to...
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A Better Use of Space: McLennan Design’s Living Community vision for a Co-Housing Village at Antioch College Featured in Latest Issue from The Chronicle of Higher Education
A BETTER USE OF SPACE | THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION We are excited about our partnership with Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to help design a Living Community Village based on cohousing principles. The Chronicle of Higher Education just published an...
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Interview with Construction Dive: Tackling the new world of ultra-sustainable construction
LEED may be the uncontested leader among green building standards worldwide, but an increasing number of project teams are looking to go further to improve the environmental impact of their buildings. Enter the Living Building Challenge, which was founded in 2006 by...
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The Future is Here: Circular Economies and the 2016 Living Product Expo
The same week Uber launched its first fleet of driverless cars in Pittsburgh, the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) held its second annual Living Product Expo in the Steel City. It was a week of both coming together to envision a better, healthier future...
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Knittel presenting at the 2016 Seattle Design Festival: Design Change
Thomas Knittel will talk about relief efforts in Haiti, and how biomimicry informed the design of the William Jefferson Clinton Children’s Center in Port au Prince, currently under construction. The WJCCC will be net zero energy and water, and is designed to LEED...
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McLennan Design to Provide Design Services for Antioch College Cohousing Pilot
At their June meeting, the Antioch College board of trustees voted to move forward with the development of Antioch College Village (ACV). ACV is part of the College’s Framework for Antioch College’s Transition (FACT). FACT is President Tom Manley’s platform for...
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Architectural Record Interviews Jason F. McLennan
Architectural Record just interviewed Jason F. Mclennan and it is now published in the May 2016 Issue. Jason talks about his plans to continue pushing the green building movement forward and in the idea that everyone deserves access to the greenest buildings possible....
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25 Minute Interview of Jason F. Mclennan with Bainbridge Community Broadcasting
Bainbridge Community Broadcasting highlights Jason F. McLennan in a recent 25 minute interview. Jason shares his own story of committing to green design, helping shape and develop LEED green-building standards to the Living Building Challenge concept, and how ground...
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Announcing the Green Warrior Society
We believe that sustainability should be for everyone, regardless of income level or social position. We believe that every project should be a living building and free of toxic chemicals and fossil fuel use. And so today marks the launch of the Green Warrior Society...
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Jason F. McLennan Receives ENR’s Award of Excellence
We are proud to announce that Jason F. McLennan has received Engineering News Record's distinguished Award of Excellence. The award, which has historically been given to contractors and engineers for large-scale projects such as skyscrapers, highways, and dams, is...
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A Living Memorial for our Fallen Heroes
When our Managing Partner, Dale Duncan, joined McLennan Design in 2014, it had been almost 3 years since he and his wife, Megan, had lost their oldest son, Spencer, in the shoot down of a CH47D Chinook helicopter on a special operations mission over Afghanistan. The...
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