[Greenbuilding] Helmut Ziehe - Founder of International Institute of Building Biology and Ecology

[Frank Tettemer]

_Stephen Collette has written:_

/I would respectfully disagree with you about the content being dated in 
the Building Biology course work and counter that /*/the rest of the 
building industry has yet to actually catch up. / *(Bold lettering 
emphasis all mine)*

*I was beginning to compose a letter of reply to Douglas Lamb. Stephen 
Collete has said it quite well for all of us.

LEED, Net Zero Energy, and The Living Building Challenge are all useful 
goals, and have created fantastic buildings. And I've had a good 
following of the AJ Lewis Centre. All these works of wonder are positive 
steps in the right direction.

I will respectfully posit that the work of Helmut Ziehe *trumps* all 
other observations of living buildings, and is really just the first 
step in creating healthy environments. Building Biology is relentless in 
it's pursuit of health to the builders, occupants, the community, and 
the planet. They take no prisoners.
(I guess that's another way of saying that "IBE is a purist philosophy 
devoted to life ... " )

The Building Biology design plan and the building's construction either 
works fully and completely, now and the future, or it simply needn't be 
built.

There is no greater respect than that which has been deserved by the Bau 
Biologists.*
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-- 
Frank Tettemer
Living Sol ~ Building and Design
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