BNIM
Silver level sponsor of USGBC Central Plains
Recognizing early on the threat of climate change and the architect’s role in it, BNIM emerged as a pioneer of sustainable design in the 1980s, serving a founding role in the AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the concept of Living Buildings. This deep history has manifested itself in many forms, including: creating decision-making tools on sustainability with the Packard Foundation; piloting a LEED 2.0 project in the late 1990s for the NIST Report to help define USGBC LEED Guidelines and inform the Living Building Challenge; designing the world’s first LEED Platinum Living Building certified building; bringing net-zero design to higher education campuses across the country; and expanding the concept of eco-diplomacy in fourteen countries alongside the U.S. Department of State. BNIM’s instrumental work in sustainable design led to recognition by the American Institute of Architects as the 2011 AIA National Architecture Firm.
The work of BNIM is guided by our core purpose – to design and deliver beautiful, integrated environments to inspire change and enhance the human condition. We do this by acknowledging the critical interdependence of nature and human nature, which John Muir observed and taught us. Through our designs, we balance intuition and science to create beautiful places that also meet high performance demands that both climate action and a more equitable world require of us. By emphasizing positive impacts of our designs on humans, we create places where people want to be, by recognizing the beneficial impacts of connecting to nature for mental and physical health and knowing that people will care for places that have meaning.
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BNIM Architects | | USGBC Member Profile
2460 East Pershing Road, Ste 2100
Kansas City, MO 64108
connect@bnim.com | 816.783.1500