McLennan Design was formed with a clear overarching purpose – to make significant positive change in the world, with a particular focus on deep green, regenerative design solutions as our means. We exist to be change agents, using design and consulting as a powerful tool for transformation.
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Earth Day – A Commitment to Regeneration
All of us here at McLennan Design would like to send a special message to our community about the importance of Earth Day and the need for each of us to transform how we live, work and play, not only to diminish our environmental footprints – but also to increase the...
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Deep Community Resilience
Dear Friends and Colleagues, In times like these, we must remind ourselves that we are resilient, and still surrounded by beauty. As uncertain as what tomorrow, next week or a few months from now may bring: plants continue to grow, tulips continue to reach upwards...
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From Superstack to Solar Stack — Creating a New Icon for Sudbury
by Jason F. McLennan Consider this a love letter to The City of Sudbury - the community where I was born and raised and that I still love and care for deeply and that helped shape my career, which has since taken me around the world. I grew up in Sudbury during the...
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McLennan Design Forges Intentional Alliance with Victoria Based Christine Lintott Architects
Newly Combined Architecture Firm with International Green Building Expertise Launches With Renewed Focus on Transformative Impact across Multiple Building Sectors Internationally renowned Seattle, Washington area firm McLennan Design, started by the founder of the...
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Our Society is displaying industry leadership through our world headquarters renovation project by transforming existing building stock to the highest levels of efficiency and lowest levels of environmental impact. We’re thrilled to work with McLennan...
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McLennan Design Forms Strategic Partnership with Biohabitats
Both Biohabitats and McLennan Design look to nature's principles for guidance in design and in defining success. With our focus on the built environment and Biohabitats' expertise in the natural systems that exist in and around it, this partnership has the...
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Heron Hall 100th Project Worldwide to Achieve Living Building Challenge Certification
"This is more than just a home for Jason and his family. This is yet another story showcasing how Living Buildings are creating resiliency at all scales. Being the first residential Living certified building in our home state is significant - an...
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Interiors + Sources Interviews Jason F. McLennan: the Best Kind of Troublemaker
It’s all part of a theory of change to use transparency as a tool. Giving structure and platforms for transparency creates consistency in definitions and terms and a way to showcase it. Each [label] is a tool for transparency. Jenna Lippin interviews Jason F. McLennan...
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Nightingale Awards’ Best of Competition Winner, Mohawk Group’s and McLennan Design’s Lichen Collection, featured by Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design’s Nightingale Awards presented Mohawk Group and McLennan Design with the 2017 Best of Competition award for their collaboration on the modular plank carpeting Lichen Collection. Editor in Chief of Healthcare Design magazine, Jennifer...
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Mohawk Group’s Lichen line by McLennan Design Captures Best of Competition at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference
Mohawk Group’s Lichen line by McLennan Design captured two prestigious Nightingale Awards at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference: best of competition and gold in the carpet category. Held at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, Nov....
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