Green Planning - Sustainable Design - LEED

WHY GREEN buildings and renewable energy systems design?

Because well-being is ultimately about sustainable relationships. About the health of our interactions with each other and with the places we live.

FACT: green buildings consume less than half the carbon-based energy of conventional buildings, use less water, have better indoor air quality, lower maintenance and operational costs - and healthier occupants.

Crisis, or simply change, the rising costs of fossil energy and escalating pressure on material resources present a challenge.

The challenge is an opportunity - to design and create the most adaptive buildings - and lifestyles - imaginable.

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Tell us what you need:

  • environmental planning
  • redevelopment, re-use consulting
  • solar and green building design
  • energy systems upgrade
  • drafting; plan presentations
  • LEED*consulting &certifications
  • solar aquatic enclosures and greenhouses
  • landscape design, remediation
  • project management

Your Green project design team.

Call us in Albuquerque - 505-877-8047.

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INFORMATION . IMAGINATION . RELATIONSHIP

We design to achieve the efficiency benchmarks of "whole-building" design - as codified in the LEED ratings system and other sustainable development guides. We make sure you have the best information.

Then - we help you make magic - by designing for imagination and relationship. Yours.

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Information - LEED and beyond:

  • appropriate siting and land stewardship
  • community connection; transportation options
  • occupancy and activity specific design
  • solar access and orientation
  • view corridors and esthetics
  • accessible and "universal" features
  • modular and minimal waste procedures
  • safe, renewable, recyclable materials
  • super-insulated building envelopes
  • high-performance glass
  • high-efficiency fixtures and appliances
  • entertainment and information electronics
  • automation efficiencies
  • water harvest, conservation and treatment
  • solar water and space heating, daylighting
  • HVAC - passive and active options
  • grid-tied or stand-alone photovoltaics
  • wind generators, green energy alternatives
  • healthy interiors - finishes and furnishings
  • indoor garden options
  • site-specific landscapes; native plants
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*LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - a building design sustainability rating system published by the U.S. Green Building Council designed to improve practices in siting, use of water, energy and materials, indoor air quality and more.

IMAGINATION

  • exploration of colors, textures, arrangements; framing the views, romancing the utilitarian
  • designs for doing - creating spaces for learning, nurture, intimacy, privacy - and commerce too!
  • planning for beauty - find it, spare it, make it

RELATIONSHIP

  • integrating your building with your unique ecological, geographic and cultural setting
  • design to socialize - use your built places to connect to your inner life - and the wider world

One could call it planning for happiness.

Bring us your ideas.

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It begins with a conversation.

Tell us about your project.

Or call our lead designer directly - 505.877.8047

Environments for people - with the planet in mind.

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