This document provides an overview of BNIM, an architecture firm. It discusses BNIM's leadership in sustainable design and green building, with the firm founding the AIA's Committee on the Environment and playing a key role in establishing standards like LEED and the Living Building Challenge. The document notes BNIM has received over 400 design awards and has completed over 50 LEED projects, including the world's first LEED Platinum and Living Building certified project. It outlines BNIM's values of seeking better ways through long-term and measurable improvement to benefit people, planet and prosperity.

2. 01/ PEOPLE
02/ VALUES + PROCESS
03/ PERFORMANCE
04/ EXPERIENCE

3. 8
Industry Fellows
2
AIA National
Presidents
407
Total Number of
Design Awards
112
Staff
12
Principals
BNIM INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
2011 AIA
National
Architecture Firm
Award
51
Total Number of
LEED Projects
9
AIA/COTE Top
Ten Green
Buildings
Omega Center for
Sustainable Living:
World’s First
LEED Platinum +
Living Building
Founded the
AIA COTE
Key role in the
creation and
development of the
USGBC, LEED,
Living Building
Challenge
First Living Building
Challenge On the
Boards Winner
BNIM INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION
1
AIA National Young
Architect
447
Awards for
Design,
Leadership and
Planning

5. 02/
VALUES + PROCESS

6. We deliver beautiful, integrated, living environments that inspire
change and enhance the human condition.
01 We seek a better way. We are committed to
long term thinking and measurable
improvement as a way of life in every
community we touch.
02 We seek to increase the vitality of people,
planet and prosperity equally.
03 We are passionate about generous design,
believing that it inspires people and changes
the world for the better.
04 We insist on being excellent – in execution,
performance and results.
05 We care about what our buildings do and how
they positively impact the lives of the people,
organizations and communities.
06 We operate with a spirit of authenticity and
servant leadership.
07 We embrace diversity in our culture – in
perspective, voice and skills.
08 We promote integrated thinking and a
collaborative dialog of discovery. We partner
to find the answers.
09 We embrace the challenge of innovation and
the advantage of replication.
CORE VALUES

7. “…what a building can do matters as much as what it looks like.”
Andrew Payne + Rodolphe el-Khoury
GENEROUS PRAGMATISM

8. NO ONE KNOWS
AS MUCH AS EVERYONE

9. LAYERS OF DESIGN

10. INTEGRATED DESIGN

11. "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable
means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable."
Louis I. Kahn

12. total number of
design awards
420
local
design awards
212
international
design awards
18
national
design awards
74
regional
design awards
117
INNOVATION. REPLICATION

13. 03/
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
INTEGRATED DESIGN

14. Meaningful Innovation
Future + Past
HPID
High Performance
Integrated Design
Continuity

15. Boilers Boilers
Hot Water Piping
Hot Water Piping
Air Handlers
Air Handlers
Chillers
Chillers
Chilled Water
Piping
Chilled Water
Piping
Chilled Beams
Glazing Blast
Film Enhanced
Glazing with
Blast
Protection
Current Proposal High Performance DesignCurrent Proposal High Performance Design
HPID Cost Definition and Control
Cost Reallocation for High Performance or Value Additions

16. MO Department of Natural Resources
9% reduced absenteeism
Platinum on state budget

17. Kansas City, Missouri
GSA Bannister Complex
80% reduction in back order
processing
There has been a 60% increase in the number of new orders filled.

18. School of Nursing University of Texas, Houston
50% less expensive to operate

19. Energy
Efficienc
y
IRS Service Center
Processing efficiency
58% energy savings

20. $54,000 ANNUAL SAVINGS

21. Includes PV
75%
98%

22. "This is simply an elegant building.”
Peter Busby AIA | 2010 AIA COTE Top Ten Jury

23. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Kansas City, MO

25. Qualcomm
San Diego, CA

28. 04/
EXPERIENCE

29. Plaza Colonnade
Kansas City, MO

31. North Charleston Community Master Plan
North Charleston, SC

32. Lenexa City Center
Lenexa, KS

33. Freight House Flats
Kansas City, MO

34. View High Development Plan
Kansas City, MO

35. Bancroft School Redevelopment
Kansas City, MO

36. Meadowbrook Golf Course Redevelopment
Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada

37. Melaver Development
Birmingham, AL

38. Glassberg Container House
Kansas City, MO

39. Christian Life Center
Kansas City, MO

40. Ronald McDonald Longfellow Park
Kansas City, MO

41. Walnut Street Residence Facility
Springfield, MO

42. Next Rail KC
Kansas City, MO

43. Todd Bolender Center for Dance & Creativity - Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City, MO

44. Todd Bolender Center for Dance & Creativity - Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City, MO IMAGE BEFORE

45. Todd Bolender Center for Dance & Creativity - Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City, MO IMAGE AFTER

46. GSA Bannister Atrium + Office Renovation
Kansas City, MO IMAGE BEFORE

47. GSA Bannister Atrium + Office Renovation
Kansas City, MO IMAGES AFTER

48. GSA – Bolling Federal Building
Kansas City, MO IMAGE BEFORE

49. GSA – Bolling Federal Building
Kansas City, MO IMAGES AFTER

50. AUTHENTICITY