William McDonough Monthly Mentions: March

Here’s a collection of some of the media mentions that William McDonough and his organizations have received in the last few weeks.

 

GreenBiz | Method set to debut LEED Platinum factory in Chicago Chicago soon will be the site for one of the few LEED Platinum factories in the U.S., where environmental cleaning products from soaps to laundry detergent will be produced. Method, now a subsidiary of green cleaning product pioneer Ecover, hired William McDonough + Partners to design the factory…

ArchDaily | William McDonough Designs Ultra “Clean” Manufacturing Facility for Method William McDonough + Partners has been selected to design Method’s first U.S. manufacturing facility on a brownfield site in ’s historic Pullman community. The company, known for producing environmentally conscious cleaning products, commissioned McDonough to design an ultra clean, LEED Platinum facility constructed from Cradle to Cradle Certified materials and powered entirely by renewable energy.

AZObuild.com | Method Unveils Plans for LEED Platinum Certified Manufacturing Plant Today, officials from Method joined Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to unveil designs for Method’s first manufacturing facility, located in the Pullman neighborhood of Chicago’s south side. Method is building an advanced facility with the goal of being the world’s first and only LEED Platinum certified manufacturing plant in its industry…

Medill Reports Chicago | New Pullman soap-maker LEED(s) the way to green jobs, construction Officials from Method unveiled designs for the first U.S. LEED platinum-certified factory in the consumer packaged goods industry. And it’s happening on the South Side in historic Pullman…

Chicago Curbed | Behold! Renderings of Method’s New Pullman Factory Chicago is getting another factory? What year is it?! Method, a maker of cleaning products, broke ground yesterday on its new $30 million manufacturing facility in Pullman, on the city’s South Side…

Mother Nature Network | Method to open greenhouse-topped production plant on Chicago’s South Side The style-conscious soap wizards at Method unveil plans for a wind- and solar-powered manufacturing facility that will also include rooftop food production.

Sustainable Brands | Method Building C2C-Designed LEED-Platinum Factory in Chicago San Francisco-based cleaning products company Method has announced that it will build in Chicago one of the few LEED-Platinum factories in the US, where it will produce its eco-friendly cleaning products such as soaps and laundry detergent.

Treehugger | The pains and joys of recycling It probably isn’t a surprise that as a writer for TreeHugger, I spend a lot of time thinking about recycling. As I report on how policy makers and companies deal with waste, it naturally makes me think about the choices I make in my personal life…

Las Vegas Review-Journal | How does technology impact water conservation? Not long ago, I heard about an interesting new product designed to make showering more efficient, reducing water use by 90 percent and energy use by 80 percent…

Jetson Green | Old School Transformed into a LEED Platinum Affordable Housing Complex The Make It Right foundation, which was co-founded by actor Brad Pitt and architect William McDonough to help those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, has recently partnered with BNIM Architects to provide affordable housing to the less-fortunate residents of Kansas City, Missouri.