Lisa Carey Moore

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Lisa is the Director of the Buildings Team, one of the three pillars of ILFI’s Impact Group. In her role, she’s responsible for ensuring an excellent experience for clients along the lifecycle of their certification journey. She leads a team of passionate and dedicated individuals with the goal of inspiring, supporting, and celebrating the achievements of our project teams pursuing our Living Building Challenge, Core Green Building, Zero Energy, and Zero Carbon Certifications. She’s also responsible for ensuring that our programs are having the impact needed in order to ensure a Living Future. She believes everyone has the ability to serve as an advocate for change, no matter how small their role is in bringing a project to reality.
Impact Story

Infrastructure Buildings for the Living Future

Unison Networks’ Windsor Substation proves the possible—Petal Certification for landscape and infrastructure projects. Living Building and Petal Certification are often sought by environmental centers and office buildings, but the program is organized for a wide range of building and project types— including industrial and infrastructure buildings and landscapes. Last fall, the New Zealand energy company Unison announced that its Windsor…

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Impact Story Living Building Challenge

Inspiring the Next Generation

The Power of Living Buildings Environmental learning centers are often built or rebuilt as leading examples of sustainable design and construction. Mission-driven owners are well positioned to fund small buildings that achieve environmental milestones — and are inherently teaching tools. So it was no surprise that Peter Smerud, executive director of Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, one of the largest…

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Affordable Housing Declare Healthy Materials Q+A

Affordable, Prefab, and Core

Could this be the Future of High-Quality Regenerative Housing? Imagine a housing solution that is not only affordable and prefabricated but also Core Green Building Certified. When you hear these terms, what thoughts and images come to mind? For one of the teams participating in the Affordable Housing Pilot Project by the International Living Future Institute, it signifies an incredible…

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Zero Carbon Zero Energy

Project Spotlight: archimania’s office, ZE+ZC Dual Certification, Memphis, TN, USA

All photos courtesy of archimania. Last May,  ILFI was thrilled to share that archimania’s office achieved dual Zero Energy and Zero Carbon certification. Jacob Davis, AIA, LEED AP, and Senior Associate with archimania explains their project’s approach to addressing carbon, both in their building and the community at large: “By upcycling the existing concrete and terrazzo floor, steel structure, and…

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Healthy Materials Living Building Challenge

Finding Inspiration Beyond Your Project Boundary

After more than a decade working as a sustainability consultant specializing in materials, Lisa Carey Moore joined ILFI in August 2021 as its Manager, Products and Materials. In her first article for Trim Tab, she shares some recent sources of inspiration, and the reflection they caused, with the hope that it will provide you with the spark to recommit to…

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