SPLASHForward’s priorities for the new Bellevue Aquatic Center at Bellevue Airfield Park are well aligned with the principles of sustainable design and create opportunities for excellence. This facility aims to serve as a community resource, an exemplar of high-performance environmental design, and a sustainable business model whose continuous operation will benefit generations to come. This framing aligns with the people, planet, profit mentality of triple bottom line sustainability across each of the Sustainable Bellevue Environmental Stewardship Plan five key focus areas, and Beyond!
SPLASHForward's early
Environmental Sustainability Vision
We have developed a one page (11 x 17) overview of our vision and illustrate how it aligns with the City of Bellevue’s Sustainable Bellevue Environmental Stewardship Plan. We will use this as a launching point for further engagement and development for the new Bellevue Aquatic Center at Airfield Park. We invite you to take a closer look! Download for best viewing.
Environmental Sustainability Glossary
A few of the environmental sustainability terms used in our early environmental sustainability vision.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
LEED provides a framework for healthy, efficient, carbon and cost-saving green buildings. LEED certification is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement. Certification is achieved through points and span four levels (Certified, Silver, Gold, Platinum).
Triple bottom line sustainability
The triple bottom line is an approach to doing business where a business commits to measuring their social and environmental impact in addition to their financial performance. The three Ps, planet, people, and profit, extend the standard “bottom line” into the “triple bottom line”.
WELL
WELL certification spans four levels – Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.
“Spanning 108 features and 10 concepts, WELL is a roadmap for improving the quality of our air, water and light with inspired design decisions that not only keep us connected but facilitate a good night’s sleep, support our mental health and help us do our best work everyday.”
Living Building Challenge
Seven building principles and standards (petals) that together focus on Regenerative design. A building is measured on their LBC compliance after it has been in operation for at least twelve months, hence the name ‘living’ building challenge.
Islanding
A design that enables distributed energy sources to interact and maintain services during outages or disturbances to the grid.
Volatile organic compounds
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from a wide array of products such as paints and lacquers, cleaning supplies, pesticides, building materials and furnishings, office equipment, graphics and craft materials to name a few. Most are human made chemicals.
Embodied carbon
Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gas emissions arising from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of building materials.
We envision expanding Bellevue’s Sustainable Bellevue Environmental Stewardship Plan to include a goal for access to a public aquatic facility. Below we show our suggestion of having 60% of household living within 20min of a public aquatic facility as an added goal by 2050! We welcome continued conversation to better define such a goal.
SPLASHForward is leading the advocacy efforts to bring a comprehensive world-class public aquatics center to the Bellevue and satellite facilities to the region. We are a community advocacy group, aquatics thought leader, and private funding partner.
We envision a world where everyone is safe around water and has equitable access to best-in-class aquatic centers that are vibrant places of pride and inclusive for all.
Our mission is to build healthier, stronger, and safer communities by creating equitable access to aquatic facilities and programs that build essential life skills, inclusion, connection, and active lifestyles.
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