Living Building Science

The purpose of this wiki is to share the findings of the Living Building Science VIP team at Georgia Tech to help scientists, engineers, architecs, and contractors make science-based decisions about constructing sustainable buildings.

Living Building Science is a Georgia Tech VIP team studying the sustainable systems embedded in the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design in Atlanta. We have an additional team focused on Air Quality which is a separate section of the course.

The instructional team is:

• Meg Grantham
• Jennifer Leavey
• Emily Weigel
• Russ Clark (Air Quality)
• Kim Cobb (Air Quality)

Consultants are:

• Jason Riedy (Computing)
• Steve Place (Horticulture)

And currently consists of six subteams:

• Liquid Waste Nitrification
• Biodiversity - Wildlife
• Soils
• Machine Learning
• Remote Sensing of Honey Bees

• Air Quality
• Hydroponics

• Greywater Wetland (inactive)
• Condensate (inactive)
• Materials (inactive)