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perkinswill.com 27 SUSTAINABLE DESIGN / Resilient Design + Climate Adaptation We are partnering with clients to identify vulnerabilities to natural and manmade stressors in our built environment and communities, and to create design responses to help achieve stability and adaptability. We are working to help restructure the social, economic, and physical capital necessary to create buildings, cities, and communities that are more diverse, more resilient, and more vital than in the past. Regenerative Design + High Performance Buildings As a practice, we are leading sustain- able design to the next level of building performance and resource conserva- tion in our built environment. More and more of our clients are achieving net zero energy, water, and carbon goals through design. This requires a visionary and innovative approach to understanding the interaction between natural and technical systems and the impacts from all design deci- sions. Beyond just reducing a build- ing’s impact, Perkins+Will is a leader in the pursuit and development of Regenerative Design strategies which seek to create systems that are waste free and actually restore resources to our environment. Transparency + Material Health Perkins+Will is at the forefront of the healthy building materials movement and has been instrumental in raising awareness of how building materials relate to human and environmental health. We initiated the first on-prod- uct ingredient label for building materi- als, detailing the complete make-up of a product, highlighting critical lifecycle information and potential human health impacts per published govern- mental sources. We are advocates for improving the industry benchmark for material health, including consider- ing whether there are potential toxic loopholes in the USGBC’s LEED V4 Standard. Some of the research and tools we have created are available to the public on our Transparency web- site, transparency.perkinswill.com.