VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre
Receives Living Building Challenge™ (LBC) Petal Certification

Connect Landscape Architecture was part of the team for the VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Center which received the Living Building (LBC)™ Petal Certification – the most stringent measurement of sustainability in the built environment. The VanDusen Visitor Centre achieved certification in the categories of Site, Materials, Health and Beauty.

The VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre is the first project in Vancouver to be Living Building Challenge Petal certified and is one of only a handful of projects registered in British Columbia. The project has been recognized with accolades and earned dozens of awards from institutions around the world.

“This building exemplifies what can happen when beauty, response to place and living systems are the drivers of design,” says Amanda Sturgeon, CEO of the International Living Future Institute. “We are overjoyed that the Living Building Challenge has been an inspiration for this project and that it is now certified.”

VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre Team Members

Client: Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation; Architect: Perkins+Will; Contractor: Ledcor Construction; Landscape Architect: Connect Landscape Architecture (formerly Sharp & Diamond) with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander; Ecologist: Raincoast Applied Ecology; Structural Engineer: Fast + Epp; Mechanical and Electrical Engineer: Integral Group; Civil Engineer: R.F. Binnie & Associates; Code Consultant: B.R. Thorson Consulting; Cost Consultant: BTY Group; Envelope Consultant: Morrison Hershfield; Lighting Consultant: Total Lighting Solutions; Acoustic Consultant: BKL Consultants; Commissioning: KD Engineering