The new Living Village at the Yale University Divinity School is a special project which was fostered to represent the best of sustainable and regenerative design. The Living Village will house 50 Graduate Students in apartment style units with cooking provisions and private bathrooms. Unique to this project is the pursuit of full certification under the Living Building Challenge (LBC), administered by the International Living Futures Institute (ILFI).  The owner and design team worked together to pursue all 20 imperatives and all 7 petal criteria. The building is currently undergoing the post construction, verification phase and targeting LBC v4.0 certification.  Only a handful of buildings in the country have obtained this status.

Special Project Features:

• Triple Net Positive: Energy, Water & Waste
• Roof integrated Photovoltaic System
• No fossil fuel use on site
• Waste water reclaim and reuse
• Storm water reclaim and reuse
• On site ecological water treatment
• Resilient design to support habitation with utility outage
• No Red List materials used
• All electric Heating, cooling, and domestic hot water production from air source heat pumps
• Self contained PV powered site lighting
• Extensive sub metering for measurement and verification against the original energy model
• Mass Timber wall assemblies

Square Footage: 43,000