Build is actively thinking about how our industry impacts ecology. While reducing the environmental impact of our buildings is critical, we also want to understand how a holistic approach to site development can be used to regenerate degraded ecosystems. How we changed the Pacific Northwest Seattle is viewed as green, sustainable, and a gateway to outdoor recreation, which makes it easy to overlook that its surrounding environment has been heavily degraded as a result of two centuries of development. Among the most heavily impacted ecosystems are rivers. Dams and levees were constructed to control flooding and facilitate agriculture in floodplains; […]
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