living building challenge
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...Read More
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...Read More
On December 8th the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal featured an in-depth article about McLennan Design's Living Home project on Bainbridge Island, Washington - future residence of Jason F. McLennan and his clan. The article...Read More
Emily Hagopian, a talented architectural photographer, who collaborated with Jason on the 2005 publication, Green Dollhouse, visited Heron Hall and took many beautiful photographs documenting the...Read More
The first SIP Panels for floor are installed in Heron Hall - a new milestone reached! The FSC SIP panels have virtually no thermal bridging and approaching R-50 insulation!!
For the first time, guided, public tours of the construction of Heron Hall - the first Living Building Challenge house to be built in Washington State, are being made available on...Read More
Jason headlines Sweden Green Building Council Conference in Stockholm and gets interviewed and featured in 4 Swedish publications as the influence of McLennan Design grows.
"Why do we always only count the bad? We try to minimize our footprint, but you'll always have a footprint. You don't have to have money to talk to somebody else. Influence them, and...Read More
McLennan Design gets selected to help the nation's oldest divinity school at Yale University think through how to build Living Buildings for their Future Campus. We will be closely working with the ambitious and...Read More
"Instead of doing something that's 'less bad,' can you define what 'good' looks like?" Summer 2015 - OnTrack Magazine reports on Jason F. McLennan, the seeds of an architectural revolution growing through the work...Read More