At right: Lifecycle Building Challenge winner: South Lake Union Discovery Center. David Miller, The Miller|Hull Partnership.

Enter the second year of the Lifecycle Building Challenge competition to shape the future of green building and facilitate local building materials reuse. Submit your innovative project, design, or idea for reducing to conserve construction and demolition materials and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by designing buildings for adaptability and disassembly.

Lifecycle building is designing buildings to facilitate disassembly and material reuse to minimize waste, energy consumption, and associated greenhouse gas emissions. Also known as design for disassembly and design for deconstruction, lifecycle building describes the idea of creating buildings that are stocks of resources for future buildings.

Only residents of the United States and its territories are eligible. Registration closes 31 July 2008. Visit the site to learn more.