Location: Cincinnati, OH
Schedule: September 2013 – June 2014
Customer: Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden [1]
Architect: Cornette/Violetta Architects
Awards:
Living Building Challenge – Petal Certified
LEED Gold Certified
African Painted Dog is part of the fourth phase of the African Safari [2] at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. The entire phase is comprised of Painted Dog, Meerkat and Hoofstock.
For the African Painted Dogs exhibit, HGC Construction was tasked with pursing its most ambitious challenge in sustainable construction yet: the Living Building Challenge. The Living Building Challenge is an international building certification program that promotes the most advanced measurement of sustainability for buildings and construction projects. The Living Building Challenge attains a very high assessment of a building’s sustainability by measuring actual, rather than modeled, performance. There are seven specific key performance areas, called Petals, to be addressed. The Petals are: Site, Water, Energy, Health, Materials, Equity, and Beauty. To earn “Living” status, the building project is evaluated after at least 12 consecutive months of operation and must have met the imperatives of each of the Petals.
Read more about the Petal Certification Below:
HGC helps the Cincinnati Zoo to become first zoo to earn petal certification [3]