Handyman Insurance, Super-Sustainable Bullitt Center is ENR Editors’ Choice for Best Project in 2013
During a 2010 preconstruction meeting with the owner-developer of Seattle’s super-sustainable Bullitt Center, the 50,000-sq-ft project’s consulting engineer had a minor meltdown over electric-plug loads—the silent killer of green-building power conservation. Paul Schwer’s eventual victory over his plug-load agita exemplifies the way the job’s team members often were forced to exit their comfort zones during the $30-million project. In doing so, they not only improved Bullitt Center, they created an example for others to follow.