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BuildGreen Consulting Services (A Windmill Company)
BuildGreen offers our services and expertise throughout North America to
meet the unique needs of each of our clients. We will assemble a team
of expert professionals designed to meet your project needs and take
your project idea from its earliest concept stages through to completion.
We aim to find green building solutions that outperform standard developments
on both economic and ecological performance.
The expertise of the BuildGreen
team is not limited to new or large-scale projects. We have worked
on small projects, as well as on larger more complex
multi-building and community developments. We have undertaken renovations
and retrofits as well as the construction of new buildings. Whatever
the scale, we can help to make your project a model of BuildGreen development
and construction.
BuildGreen offers solutions that are sensitive to local
ecosystems, responsive to community needs, use local resources, and
promote the local economy.
If you want to build green, you can count on our professional team
for effective, efficient, cost conscious and ecologically sound delivery
of the following services:
Design Consultation
We work with our client's to integrate design and building systems
in an interdisciplinary way to ensure that only those solutions that
are
both
economically and ecologically sound are integrated into the project.
Eco-charettes
BuildGreen is experienced with bringing project team members together
early in the development process and with facilitating eco-charette
development to foster creativity, innovation, efficiency and collaboration.
Project
Management Services
We have an experienced team of project managers able to provide
complete project management services from the design through
to the construction
phase. We can act as an owners' representative to ensure high-quality
and efficient BuildGreen product.
LEED Project Management
We are one of the most experienced Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) consulting firms in Canada.
Our team has worked
extensively with this green building certification framework,
and have LEED
accredited professionals, advanced faculty, and US and Canadian
Green Building
Council board experience on our team to help you realize
your LEED certification
goals.
Workshops and Training
We offer workshops and training seminars on a range of high-performance
green building issues to any interested organization, and
are available to deliver these services anywhere in the
world.
Green Building Reports, Studies and Guidelines
We provide high-level green building research and strategy
development services for cities, states, design professionals
and others
to assist in the design of green building programs and
the planning of specific
projects.
Community and Site Master Planning
We offer professionally facilitated master planning services
with an attention to environmentally sensitive and
appropriate site
planning, utility, transportation
and parking servicing, building design, landscaping,
provision and/or protection of green space, recreation
facilities,
and other details.
Facility Management Support and
Audits
In conjunction with our property management division,
we work with facilities management teams to identify
and implement
opportunities to fine-tune
building system operations to maximize efficiencies,
and to
protect human and ecosystem
health. This is done through facility management
support, environmental assessments, whole system building operations,
feasibility
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"Within one generation, nations
can achieve a ten-fold increase in the efficiency with which they use
energy, natural resources and other materials." Factor Ten (a 90
percent reduction in energy and materials intensity) and Factor Four
(a 75 percent reduction) have entered the vocabulary of government officials,
planners, academia, and businesspeople throughout the world.
Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment
and Energy in Europe, 1997 |