BNIM has transformed our profession.

Redefining Collaboration and Community

Leadership in Sustainability and Design

Founded 1970

• 2 National AIA Presidents• 7 AIA Fellows• 6 AIA Kansas City Presidents

• Active in educating from University of Kansas to Harvard.

Every day 80,000 people go to work in spaces designed by BNIM.

20 million square feet.

“BNIM has had an unparalleled impact on the revitalization of urban Kansas City…more than any other design firm”

— Donald Hall, Hon. AIA, Former CEO | Hallmark Cards

Union Station, Kansas City

• Kansas City’s FOCUS master plan, APA Plan of the Year

• Founder Local Climate Protection Partnership

• 175 Local Design Awards — More Design Awards than any other Firm

Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City

Joint Venture with HNTB.

total number ofdesign awards

321

localdesign awards

175

internationaldesign awards

14

nationaldesign awards

48

regionaldesign awards

84

Kansas City Convention Center

July 17, 1981114 die in hotel walkway collapse

November 18, 201025,000+ gather to kick off Greenbuild

DESIGN THROUGH COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY

TRANSFORMING

“There is no other firm more prepared to define the leading edge of sustainable design. Their work is defining the next level of thinking in the evolution of environmental architecture.”

—David Orr, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College

Benchmarking Sustainability

Impact:

Founder AIA COTE, USGBC, LEED

140,000+ LEED Professionals

30,000+ LEED Projects

$35-49 Billion Green Building Market

100+ Countries with LEED Projects

AIA COTE USGBC LEED REGEN =Beyond LEED

AIA COTETOP 10

• Collaboration with 4 Presidents…Clinton Climate Initiative• Everyone from Gorbachev to Brad Pitt• PBS to Planet Green• Recognition from Architectural Record to Financial Times

LecturesProjectsLEED

One of the first COTE Top Ten

Kansas City Zoo

2000 2006 2007 20081999 2010

Six AIA COTE Top Ten Award Projects“BNIM’s practice was evolving as they were trying to change the practice.”

Packard Matrix: • First study about real cost and benefits of deep green• Proved case for Living Building

“Upon seeing this, the only responsible thing I can do is instruct you to make the greenest building possible.” — Dick Schlossberg, Former President,

Packard Foundation

“We wanted a building that feels like a nurturing environment the minute you enter it.”

—Patricia L. Starck, Dean

UT Nursing, Houston, TX

DAYLIGHT MODELING

DAYLIGHT PLAN

DAYLIGHT SECTION

Benchmarks

• 75% of construction waste recycled

• 60% reduction in utility costs in comparison to adjacent buildings

• 48% less potable water• 50% recycled materials

BEFORE

Kansas City GSA Offices

Repurposed over 3 million square feet of existing buildings

“This project does a spectacularjob of creating a sense of place. Very sensitive in its use of material and proportion.”—Rand Elliot, Jury Chair

Kansas City Federal Building

LEED Founder + Leader

13 Platinum Projects2.7 million LEED square feet

*Sustainable Design by BNIM. With Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter Architects, Ltd.

Omega Center for Sustainable Living, Rhinebeck, NY Corporate Office for 400 Employees, Little Rock, Arkansas

“BNIM has changed the way that contractors think about building. No one more than BNIM has revolutionized the construction industry.”—Terry Dunn, President & CEO, JE Dunn Construction Co.

First Living Building Net Zero: 0 Energy, 0 WaterLEED PlatinumAIA COTE Top Ten

Omega Center, Rhinebeck, NY

“This is simply an elegant building.” —Peter Busby AIA | 2010 AIA COTE Top Ten Jury

COMMUNITY THROUGH COLLABORATIONTRANSFORMING

“BNIM understands the challenges of making a better place to live and they are not afraid to lead us there.”—Steve Abend, FAIA, ASAI Architecture

—Irma Gigli, IMM Director, Sarofim Research Building

“With BNIM’s leadership we were able to achieve a new paradigm for collaborative science and research.”

UT IMM Research Building, Houston, TX

Ed BarnesAnshen + AllenSmithGroup

Pei Cobb FreedMoshe SafdieSteven Holl

“We selected BNIM because of their focus on innovation and their impeccable reputation…The collaboration was the best our firm has experienced.”

— Steven Holl

Harry WeeseBurt HillLake | Flato

“Advanced construction technologies cannot Be realized without skillful orchestration – BNIM is a consummate conductor on this stage of great complexity.”—Marc Wilson, Former Director, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Steven Holl + BNIM

New OrleansGreensburg, KS

Transforming natural disasters by building healthy communities

1993Great Mississippi River FloodPattonsburg, MO ,Valmeyer, IL

2001Tropical Storm Allison Houston,TX

2005Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, LA 

2007EF5 Tornado Greensburg, KS 

2008Iowa River Flood Iowa City, IA

2010Cumberland River FloodNashville, TN

2010Haiti Earthquake

Tornado Hurricane

“Greensburg is a global example of how clean energy can power an entire community, how it can bring jobs and businesses to a place where piles of bricks and rubble once lay.”

—President Barack Obama

EF5 Tornado First Platinum Community

Greensburg, KS

A New SchoolA New City HallA New Life for the Entire Community

Powered by 100% renewable energy

“BNIM helped us achieve…a beautiful and functional camp with a unified vernacular that will serve us for many years with low maintenance costs.”

—Mark Brayer, Director

Camp Naish, Kansas

UT IMM Research Building, Houston, TX

GSA Offices, Missouri

Retreat, Rural Iowa

TREE

—Dan Maginn, AIA, eldorado architects

“They focus so strongly on the power of human inspiration, they seek it in all places, even outside their walls…and the spirit is infectious!”