CREATING A 'POSTER BUILDING' FOR LEADING-EDGE SUSTAINABILITY

摘要

On Aug. 7, 2014, architect Greg Mella, who led the design team for the supersustainable Brock Environmental Center, in Virginia Beach, Va., got hit by a car while he was bicycling home from work in Washington, D.C. The impact, which shattered his right tibial plateau and tore his rotator cuff, occurred about four months before completion of the 10,000-sq-ft Brock center, which is the first commercial building in the U.S. to be permitted to treat rainwater to potable standards.