LEED & Green Building

Why Energy Modeling is Worth the Investment

The energy used running a commercial enterprise can be huge. Many businesses and property owners are looking for ways to cut down on their energy use to try to be more environmentally-friendly. As a property owner or facility manager, you need to make sure your processes don’t suffer as a result. Energy modeling provides the [...]

By |April 25th, 2018|Energy Efficiency, Environmental, LEED & Green Building, Sustainability|0 Comments
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Green Property Condition Assessment

Green Property Condition Assessment Here at Natura we assess the condition of many buildings. While the physical condition of a building and all of its building systems are important considerations, there’s typically one idea that is not considered…how to make the building more efficient to operate. Natura Architectural Consulting believes that sustainability best practices should [...]

By |April 18th, 2018|Energy Efficiency, LEED & Green Building, Property Condition Assessments|0 Comments
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A Simple Guide to Choosing the “Right” Commercial Contractor.

If you’ve found this article, chances are you’re looking for a commercial contractor for your next project. If you’ve hired a commercial contractor before, you know the hiring process is crucial to ensuring budgets, timelines, and design implementation; and can be daunting.  If you’ve never hired a commercial contractor before, just breathe. This blog offers [...]

By |April 3rd, 2018|Due Diligence, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments
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Resilient Building Design: Is it really Resilient Community Design?

We know our world is evolving. Our planet is fundamentally changing as global temperatures rise and the atmosphere experiences higher concentrations of greenhouse gases. In turn, our communities are presented with new challenges. In addition to a widespread focus on constructing more energy efficient buildings, architects and designers are now addressing the challenge of shifting [...]

By |March 7th, 2018|Environmental, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments
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A Simple Guide to Green Building Rating Systems

Over the years, it seems as though certifications for buildings have exploded. It can be challenging to keep track of all of the green building ratings systems, let alone know which certification is best for your existing building or new construction project. We’re hoping the following rundown will help make a bit more sense of [...]

By |February 12th, 2018|Energy Efficiency, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments
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Why You Should Invest in A Commercial Building Energy Audit.

As owners and managers of commercial buildings, we know you’re always looking for ways to reduce your overhead costs. We also know that wherever there is a conversation about overhead, the concern of energy efficiency is not far away. Often, energy efficiency becomes the cornerstone concern for a lot of building owners and facility managers [...]

By |January 4th, 2018|Energy Efficiency, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments
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Go Green! The Importance of LEED Building

Green LEED Building Green LEED building certification is becoming more prevalent in the building design and construction industry. Building owners and architects are continually looking at ways to save money while building the most energy efficient buildings possible. Achieving LEED certification is an investment in today's world. Go Green! The LEED program is a voluntary, third-party [...]

By |March 29th, 2017|Energy Efficiency, Environmental, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments
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Holistic Design

One of the biggest complaints that I hear about green building is the cost of implementing green strategies.  There’s some pretty flawed logic in those complaints because our employees have worked for many years to prove over and over again that it doesn't cost to go green, it pays to go green.  The secret to [...]

By |September 15th, 2014|Holistic Design, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments
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Green Roofs; More than Pretty Landscapes

Purpose Having a vegetative green roof on a building is more than just a novelty and a landscape feature.  Green roofs are very effective tools that can be used to solve several different problems in a sustainable manor. So what does a green roof do exactly?  Aside from being a novelty for neighboring taller buildings [...]

By |July 29th, 2014|LEED & Green Building|0 Comments
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Rain Gardens; a Stormwater Management Tool

Stormwater management has become an ever more important issue in the urban setting.  As our urban areas become more developed and more impervious surfaces like concrete and asphalt are installed the issue compounds itself.  Most of us don’t realize what happens to our stormwater after it touches the ground.  Stormwater experts sometimes talk about the [...]

By |July 19th, 2014|Holistic Design, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments
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About Natura

NAC is a property due diligence and sustainability consulting group with a focus on multifamily buildings. Our service lines include; property condition assessments, environmental assessments, energy auditing, and LEED consulting. NAC works with business owners and property managers to help reduce risk involved in investing in real estate.
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