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What Does Sustainability Mean to You?
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What Does Sustainability Mean to You?

Energy Efficiency, Holistic Design, Multifamily Housing, Sustainability

What Does Sustainability Mean to You?

Sustainability has become a major buzzword. Industries across every sector of the market are bringing discussions of sustainability into their everyday conversations and strategies. One of the first industries to bring sustainability to the forefront of industry discussions was the building materials and construction industries. This makes sense because, in the United States alone, buildings [...]

By Nate Gillette|March 27th, 2018|Energy Efficiency, Holistic Design, Multifamily Housing, Sustainability|0 Comments

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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 Nate Gillette|September 15th, 2014|Holistic Design, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments

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 Nate Gillette|July 19th, 2014|Holistic Design, LEED & Green Building|0 Comments