The document summarizes a project to develop a Climate Sustainability Center in Kansas City involving multiple stakeholders. It discusses the client and project teams, presents example sustainable building designs and projects, and outlines an approach focusing on community engagement, education, job creation, and a triple bottom line of people, prosperity and planet. Concepts for the building program include a resource center, botanical garden, agricultural research, and job training facilities.

1. CLIENT TEAM City of Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department University of Missouri – Kansas City Congressman Cleaver’s Office Economic Development Administration PROJECT TEAM BNIM Architects Zimmer Real Estate Taliaferro + Browne J.E. Dunn BGR Engineers Chippendale Consulting Tetra Tech Brush Creek Community Partners Astra Enterprises Bennie L. Lewis TEAM

2. The following slides were shown on a continuous loop during the project’s Open House Forums, held on March 25 and March 27, 2010. The building and site program have yet to be finalized, and the design work yet to begin. All text and reference images are for the purpose of example only and to spur conversation. TEAM

4. CLEAVER BOULEVARD TROOST AVENUE VOLKER BOULEVARD PROJECT SITE

6. BUILDING PROGRAM EDUCATION / JOB TRAINING RESEARCH BOTANICAL GARDEN

7. EMERGING IDEAS RESOURCE CENTER Business Incubator AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FACILITY WORKSHOPS Culinary Kitchen Laboratories JOB TRAINING CENTER Auditorium Classrooms Convening Center MEETING SPACES

8. SUSTAINABLE DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION CK Choi Center for Asian Research | University of British Columbia - Vancouver The School of Nursing & Student Community Center | The University of Texas Health Science Center Heifer International Headquarters | Little Rock, Arkansas Internal Revenue Service Kansas City Service Center | Kansas City, Missouri

9. REDUCTION IN ABSENTEEISM ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT NET ZERO ENERGY NET ZERO WATER 7.5% LEWIS AND CLARK STATE OFFICE BUILDING ANITA B. GORMAN CONSERVATION DISCOVERY CENTER OMEGA CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING

10. A LIVING BUILDING The Omega Center for Sustainable Living | Rhinebeck, New York

11. A LIVING CAMPUS Odum School of Ecology | University of Georgia

12. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES Greensburg Sustainable Comprehensive Master Plan | Greensburg, Kansas New Orleans: Make It Right | New Orleans, Louisiana

13. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

14. RESEARCH CHRISTOPHER S. BOND LIFE SCIENCES CENTER University of Missouri

15. RESEARCH

19. EDUCATION Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center Kansas City, Missouri

24. 3 EXAMPLE PROJECTS Cornwall, U.K. Chicago, IL Syracuse, NY

25. EXAMPLE PROJECTS EDEN PROJECT Cornwall, U.K. VISION To promote the understanding and responsible management of the vital relationship between plants, people and resources, leading towards a sustainable future for all.

27. Exhibition space

28. Film space

29. Workshops

31. Industrial

34. Classrooms

35. Material testing laboratories

41. Learning Lab for Sustainable Living

42. “Sustain-iversity” (UMKC Connection)

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