On Saturday, June 3, 2017 we gathered to celebrate the culmination of two important milestones in the Making Waves $9.4 million capital campaign – completion of the Lakeview Staff House and Maintenance Buildings, and kicking off Phase 2, the Margaret A. Cargill Lodge and Lake Superior classroom access. These milestones would not be possible without YOU! Here’s […]

  I’ve often thought of the West Dorm as a “home away from home.” School kids move in on Mondays ready to make the place their own. They haul their sleeping bags and clothes off the bus and up into their rooms, thrilled to be on this grand adventure north. Summer campers gather around the […]

By Lori Walewski and Shannon Walz Living Building Challenge believes that beauty inspires caring for communities and the environment.  The Beauty Petal challenges LBC projects to recalibrate what people accept for the built environment. The purpose is to create joy and inspiration. There are two imperatives – 1) Beauty and Spirit and  2) Inspiration and […]

By Lori Walewski and Shannon Walz Freshwater is a precious resource.  Access to freshwater is becoming a serious issue around the world due to climate change, pollution and our current water habits around water use.  The Water Petal’s intent is to rethink our water usage and what happens with wastewater so that buildings, campuses and […]

By Lori Walewski and Shannon Walz Living Building Challenge has been mentioned many times in this blog.  Living Building Certification consists of three steps. Registration – Wolf Ridge registered the West Dorm remodel to the LBC version 2.1 in September 2014. Documentation and Operation – We are currently in this phase which includes constructions and […]

Over the holiday weekend, Wolf Ridge got a fresh covering of snow.  It is a quiet week here from a programming standpoint – besides staff on campus the only others onsite are our furry and feathered friends; however, this is not a quiet week for our builders as construction presses on with the Maintenance Building […]

Post By John Chandler, Wolf Ridge Development Director If you walked on site this week, you would see some major transformations in our Maintenance building.  It actually looks like a building! The windows are in and the siding is on.  The much welcomed “warm-up” is speeding along the interior work in the Staff House as […]

By John Chandler, Wolf Ridge Development Director We’ve had some exciting rainy, snowy, icy weather the last few days but our construction teams are hard at work.  The windows have been installed in the Naturalist House and they are working on getting the metal roof on when they can.  With the windows installed the construction […]

This year we are building both a new naturalist house as well as a new maintenance building. This week the materials for the maintenance building have arrived and the building is quickly being framed! Our new maintenance facility will allow our hard working Maintenance and Grounds team to work on vehicles in a heated shop […]

The roof is on the Naturalist House! With the framing up and now a roof above, construction crews will soon be able to work without worrying about snow. Windows will go in next week, as well as weatherproofing the outer walls.   LEED vs. LBC, Part One While there are a number “green building” initiatives out in the […]