The US EPA has determined that buildings account for a significant percentage of the total energy, water and electricity consumed in the US, and a considerable portion of the nation’s total carbon dioxide emissions. The economic costs attributable to such inefficient resource use are sizeable, as are their environmental and social impacts. Building and construction companies as well as architecture and engineering firms are increasingly working together to ‘green’ the building life cycle process to reduce such impacts. This has engendered a rethink of such issues as building design, construction practices, operation, maintenance, renovation, deconstruction and waste disposal. The objective is not only to employ more environmentally friendly reused, recycled and/or renewable resources and materials, but also to improve resource efficiency and management by existing structures, and to ultimately lower operating and maintenance costs for building owners and tenants.

We specialize in assisting our customers to develop collaborative business relationships with federal, state and municipal governments and with green materials and technology suppliers and installers, in ways that enable our customers to satisfy evolving environmental and energy laws and regulations, Green Building Code and LEEDS standards compliance, locations for new structures that are proximate to key public transportation hubs, and related economic and tax benefits.