Consulting Services Specialties

  • Passive design (gravity drainage, solar orientation, heating & cooling, shading, day lighting, ventilation). Passive Haus, http://www.passivehouse.us/passiveHouse/PHIUSHome.html , touts that passive buildings use 90% less operation resources that conventional
  • Due diligence & Feasibility
  • Rain water harvesting, 
  • Integrated water management site development , & retrofits
  • Aquifer & watershed stewardship
  • Green Building rating systems matrix conformance
  • Net zero, Living Building, grid optional, self sufficient, sanctuary compound design with integrated infrastructure for shelter, water, waste sanitation, water heating, renewable power, food production
  • Hybrid passive low tech fused with high tech smart building sensors
  • Hybrid prefab modular – site built design solutions
  • Assemble & coordinate Design Team consultants
  • Cal Green type Operation Manuals
  • Preliminary Design & Entitlement Process
  • Non toxic, low embodied energy, recycled content, salvaged, & durable materials
  • Bridging Consultant, to develop client’s program, schematic & design development, that the design-build team needs to achieve. Design & consult with design build firms. Bridging consultant remains agent of the client throughout all phases of the project & is not a part of the design-build entity.