Solar-powered Seattle high-rise will be snapped together onsite
Solar panels will cover most of the roof and line some balconies and one facade of a pre-manufactured 15-story Seattle apartment tower planned for a tiny corner lot in Belltown.
It's the latest project of Seattle-based Sustainable Living Innovations, which develops turn-key projects by manufacturing the walls, floors and other building components off site and delivering them to the project site where they're pieced together, "kind of like a chassis on a car," SLI Executive Vice President Rick Osterhout said.
This isn't modular construction, which is becoming more common for mid-rise building, but more a "part of kits" approach. Both speed up construction time and make development on constrained sites easier. Together the technologies are one answer to a nearly universal problem: the shortage of affordable housing.
The developer of 303 Battery is a joint venture of SLI and Renova Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity company that invests in environmentally sustainable projects. SLI is a subsidiary of CollinsWoerman Architects.
The joint venture is moving fast toward construction because an investment group has agreed to acquire the 112-unit apartment building project, said Osterhout, who was not at liberty to name the buyer.
The building is part of Seattle's Living Building Pilot Program. Solar panels will provide heat and hot water, generating half the building's annual energy needs. A gray-water treatment system will recycle non-potable water for use in lavatories and the irrigation system. And there will be no parking stalls but plenty of bicycle storage.
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