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Shan Arora, Director of the Kendeda Building: It's a living building. 

CNN Anchor: Shan Arora is the director of the Kendeda Building and is 4advocating for its unique design to act as a 5catalyst for change in the building industry. 

Shan Arora: Over the course of a year, the building produces 100% of its electricity needs plus another 100%. So, it's 200% 6net positive energyand the excess electricity goes to our sister buildings on campus. And you see the sun just came out? More free electricity! 

CNN Anchor: From its 7zero-carbon construction to its rooftop solar 8array, this building goes 9far beyond 10sustainability. It's 11left no stone unturned. 

The Kendeda Building on Georgia Tech's campus is updating the three Rs that you might be familiar with from your childhood reduce, reuse, recycle to 12regenerative, 13resilient, 14restorative. 15Features like its rooftop garden combines these three new Rs with an 16aesthetic appeal that anyone can enjoy. 

Shan Arora: I don't know where else you see corn growing. 

CNN Anchor: You got corn here. 

Shan Arora: We got corn, beautiful tomatoes. I mean, come check this out. 

CNN Anchor: Amazing. All in this rooftop garden. The building's water collection system is not connected to the city's 17sewer, providing resilience against Atlanta's 18aging 19wastewater infrastructure. 

Shan Arora: You take a shower in the building, wash your hands, it goes here. It's a 20pollinator garden. Native Georgia bees having lunch. 

CNN Anchor: Shan says that we're not 21far off as a society to make these features a reality in every building. 

Shan Arora: Is the price of electricity going to go up? Yeah. Is the price of water going to go up? yeah. 22sewage? Yeah. If you're going to own a building for 100 years, why wouldn't you make the building resilient.