(Rendering courtesy of Krause)
By AZRE
Today, Arizona-based architectural firm Krause was selected as the winner of the C40 Cities Reinventing Cities Initiative to develop Phoenix’s Resource Innovation Campus (RIC). The initiative is a competition that invites professional multi-disciplinary teams to transform underutilized sites in cities across the world into beacons of sustainability and resilience. The campus will provide a platform for companies to further develop innovative manufacturing technologies that ultimately transform our waste into new resources.
Krause’s state-of-the-art solution to the campus aims to revolutionize Arizona’s economy for the next century. Through its design, Krause and their collaborators will target a fully carbon-positive building and Living Building Challenge certification, the most rigorous sustainability certification in the world. The campus’s design will move the needle for the City of Phoenix’s goal of achieving 50% waste diversion by 2030 and zero waste by 2050, becoming a lynchpin to Arizona’s future, serving as an incubator for public-private partnerships and fostering sustainable business growth in the region.
