# Center for Sustainable Landscapes was Built to be One of the Greenest Buildings in the World

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/04/center-for-sustainable-landscapes-was-built-to-be-one-of-the-greenest-buildings-in-the-world/
- Published: 2020-04-09T01:40:23-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

**_Phipps’ Center for Sustainable Landscapes received the Living Building Certification.
It has garnered several prestigious awards and is the only building in the world
to achieve all four green building standards of excellence._**
 [⌊living building challenge certification⌉](https://i0.wp.com/greenlivingguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wp-1459483894077.jpeg?quality=52&ssl=1)

Pittsburgh, Pa. — [Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens’ Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL)](https://www.phipps.conservatory.org/green-innovation/at-phipps/center-for-sustainable-landscapes-greenest-building-museum-garden-in-the-world)
was built to be one of the greenest buildings in the world and was certified to 
receive the Living Building certification. Since then, the project has won multiple
prestigious national and international awards. In March 2015, the CSL became the
first and only project to attain the world’s four highest sustainable building certifications.
Thereby achieving the Living Building Certification [Building Living Certification Challenge](https://web.archive.org/web/20190128052455/https://living-future.org/lbc/),
[LEED ® Platinum](https://web.archive.org/web/20170531063051/http://www.usgbc.org/projects/phipps-center-sustainable-landscapes),
[Four Stars Sustainable SITES Initiative ™ (SITES ™)](http://www.sustainablesites.org/phipps-center-sustainable-landscapes)
and [WELL Building Platinum project (pilot)](https://web.archive.org/web/20180814151341/https://www.wellcertified.com/).

As well, green buildings reduce emissions. They reduce emissions by up to and more
than 35%. Greener buildings can also reduce energy from 30-60%  In net zero buildings
its 100%.

So [living building](https://greenlivingguy.com/2021/02/green-architecture-what-makes-a-structure-a-living-building/)
performance has earned it many awards. That’s including the [EPA’s Green Power Partner of the Year Award.](https://web.archive.org/web/20151023050910/http://yosemite.epa.gov:80/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/159307c042c6999485257ee3004fd309!OpenDocument)
Also the Beyond Green High Performance Buildings Award from the Sustainable Buildings
Industry Council. Similarly an EBIE Award from the U.S. Green Building Council. 
That’s as well as an International Landscape Design award from the [Association of Professional Landscape Designers.](https://www.apld.org/)
[Pennsylvania Resources Council’s Sustainability Leadership Award](https://web.archive.org/web/20160725235453/http://prc.org:80/2015-awards-celebration/)
and more.

Source: Phipps phipps.conservatory.org,**

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