Living Building Challenge Version 1.3

Version 1.3 of the Living Building Challenge was released in August 2009 as an update to the original standard document. Only projects that were registered prior to November 10, 2009 are eligible for certification using the requirements listed in this version of the program.

All other projects should refer to Living Building Challenge 2.0 for relevant program information.

PLEASE NOTE: It is acceptable for project teams registered under 1.3 (or other previous versions) to use the 2.0 requirements for the following Imperatives:
1.3                                                                    2.0
11 Sustainable Stormwater Management        06 Ecological Water Flow  
13/14 Healthy Air                                             09 Healthy Air
08 Appropriate Materials/Services Radius      14 Appropriate Sourcing

If a project team opts to implement the 2.0 version of any/all of the above, it would also have to apply the 2.0 version of the following:

12 Embodied Carbon Footprint
13 Responsible Industry


For a digital copy of Version 1.3, please contact Darby Strong (darby [at] cascadiagbc [dot] org).