Subscribe to Living Building Community

Subscription to the Living Building Community allows access to the full community forum including the User's Guide, Community Dialogue and other tools.

The online presence for the Living Building Challenge, the Community is the site for all key resources for the program. In addition to housing the published standard and the User’s Guide, documents such as Cascadia-initiated studies, articles about projects pursuing the Challenge, project team generated support information, and other tools are also available.

Some areas of the website are accessible solely to Community members, and subscriptions are available for an annual fee and include a ‘Living’ T-shirt:

$125 Cascadia Members

$150 Non-Cascadia members

(Please note that Cascadia individual membership is separate from USGBC and CaGBC corporate membership, although some discounts apply. Refer to our website for more information: www.cascadiagbc.org/membership.)

Click here for a one-year subscription.

(Not a Cascadia Member?  Click Here to become a CASCADIA REGION GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL MEMBER. Please note that Cascadia membership is different from USGBC membership)

Interested in pursuing Living Building designation for your project? Here’s the process:

1. Become a Living Building Community member.

See Above.

2. Register your project.

The project registration page is accessible via the Community member section of the site. This is the first step in receiving Living Building or “Petal” designation on a project.
Fee: $50 for Cascadia members, $100 for non-members

3. Design, construct, and occupy your building.

Living Building designation occurs only after a building is occupied and operational for one full year. Documentation submittal and verification will happen at this point.