Description:
450 architects is a small, San Francisco-based architecture firm with many years of experience in small- to medium-sized residential, commercial, and educational projects. We specialize in leading community-based design processes that add public voice to new construction projects, and in promoting sustainable design principles in all our work.
AIM Associates
George Beeler
100 Fair Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
707.763.3300 Ext 2
george-aim@svn.net
http://www.aimgreen.com
Qualifications:
AIM has 20 years experience designing green buildings. Their projects have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission, the EPA and PG&E. Team members have LEED certification.
Description:
Architecture, project planning and sustainability consulting are provided for schools, offices, housing and community facilities. We aim to create responsive and enjoyable buildings that reflect what is unique about the client, the users of the building, and the site in a manner that is healthy for the occupants and ecologically sustainable.
American Institute of Architects, East Bay
Sidney Sweeney, Executive Director
1405 Clay Street
Oakland, CA 94612-1401
510.464.3600
sidney@aiaeb.org
Description:
This organization provides a design review process to architects for the environmental performance of buildings. The American Institute of Architects, East Bay is committed to improvement of the environment, for example by educating public agencies on sustainable design and environmentally sound planning. The East Bay AIA, also helps to educate the general public on such issues by presenting and sponsoring public lecture programs. American Institute of Architects, East Bay Committee on the Environment offers ongoing meetings and educational gatherings for information on sustainable design and building.
Anderson Brule Architects
Brad Cox
325 S. First Street, 4th Floor
San Jose, CA 95113
408.298.0885
brad@aba-arch.com
http://www.aba-arch.com
Qualifications:
Green Design and Documentation, Project Management, etc. LEED Accredited Professional, multiple green projects and several LEED registered projects.
Andrea Traber Architecture + Sustainability
Andrea Traber
2421 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
510.486.0640
andrea@traberarch.com
Qualifications:
Licensed architect, experienced with residential, commercial, and many aspects of green building. LEED accredited professional. ADPSR member, USGBC member, active in NCC chapter.
Description:
Small firm specializing in green building in the residential, commercial and consulting sectors. We offer full services, design through construction administration, and green building consulting.
Apparatus Architecture
Hills Stuart
357 Grove Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415.703.0904
stuart@apparatus.com
http://www.apparatus.com
Qualifications:
Apparatus has designed over 50 rammed earth and pise(TM) homes.
Description:
Apparatus Architecture is an architecture firm specializing in residential design. The majority of Apparatus' projects use conventional construction techniques integrating standard specifications and details that utilize green building products and practices. Apparatus is a leader in stabilized earth design. Whether it is energy efficient design, the elimination of toxins in the construction process, or the integration of sustainable materials that concerns its client the most, Apparatus prides itself in the application of a green methodology to meet its clients' programmatic, budgetary and aesthetic goals.
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
Greg VanMechelen
PO Box 9126
Berkeley,
510.845.5100
adpsr@aol.com
Qualifications:
Description:
ADPSR is a national nonprofit organization of architects, designers, planners, related professionals and nonprofessionals. ADPSR's efforts are directed toward arms reduction, protection of the natural and built environment, and socially responsible development. The Design professionals have in the past been a leading force in shaping the way we live. Our responsibility is recognizing harmful building practices and providing insight into available alternatives. The problems facing our world are both very technically specific and sweepingly general. We, as designers, are uniquely positioned to address these issues.
Architectural Resources Group (ARG)
Nina Pascale
San Francisco, CA 94111
415.421.1680
nina@argsf.com
Qualifications:
Award winning architectural firm. LEED certified professionals.
Description:
ARG is a San Francisco-based architectural firm with experience in award-winning design of new structures, the adaptive reuse and seismic strengthening of existing structures, and the conservation and restoration of historic properties. The firm's commitment to sustainable design is reflected in its many years of work with the National Park Service.
Arkin Tilt Architects
David Arkin Anni Tilt
1101 8th Street #180
Berkeley, CA 94710
510.528.9830
info@arkintilt.com
http://www.arkintilt.com
Qualifications:
Awarded an AIA/COTE Top 10 Green Project of 2003 and numerous design awards; members of AIA, ADPSR, CASBA; in-house LEED certified professional; widely published.
Description:
Arkin Tilt Architects specializes in energy and resource efficient design. Our award-winning projects embody a marriage of thoughtful design and ecology, creating spaces that are both comfortable and lyrical, integrating the natural and built environment. We have extensive experience with passive and active solar, straw-bale and other natural building technologies.
Blake-Drucker Architects
Bonnie Blake-Drucker
111 Myrtle Street, Suite 201A
Oakland, CA 94607-2535
510.268.8310
leed@bdarch.com
http://www.bdarch.com
Qualifications:
Accredited LEED Professional, licensed architect with 20 years experience in complex laboratories, computer facilities and offices.
Description:
Blake-Drucker Architects is a small design-oriented architectural firm that has been successful in our 20-year history in solving the problems of complex building programs within occupied buildings. Our work is primarily for the University of California and has included one registered LEED-CI project, currently in submittal preparation phase.
BSA Architects
David Ross
350 Pacific Ave., Suite 302
San Francisco, CA 94901
415.781.1526
dross@bsaarchitects.com
http://www.bsaarchitects.com
Qualifications:
BSA Architects is a San Francisco-based design firm with a portfolio representing 35 years of planning and architecture, with over 70 major design awards including. "Firm of the Year" by the American Institute of Architects. BSA is a member of the US Green Building Council with two principals currently LEED accredited green building professionals.
Description:
BSA has built its planning, programming, and architectural skills with the design of community facilities locally in Northern California, as well as lodging, resort and recreation facilities throughout North America and abroad. Site-specific solutions, environmental sensitivity, contextualism, and appropriate materials contribute to a design philosophy based on honest expression. BSA's guiding objective is to create timeless architecture that reflects the community spirit and encourages healthy human activity.
Cassandra Adams, AIA
Cassandra Adams
1619 Arlington Blvd.
El Cerrito, CA 94530
510.215.5050
cassadams@earthlink.net
Qualifications:
Architect (licensed in CA and WA); LEED accredited professional.
Description:
Architectural design; environmental and life cycle consulting; LEED certification of buildings; construction management; residential development.
Chong Partners Architecture
Juli Abbott
405 Howard Street 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415.433.0120
jabbott@chongpartners.com
http://www.ghcp.com
Qualifications:
Licensed architect, LEED Accredited Professional, college-level instructor.
Description:
Chong Partners Architecture is a full-service architecture firm specializing in healthcare, education, and parking.
CJW Architecture
Carter J. Warr, AIA, CSI, NCARB
Kevin Schwarckopf
130 Portola Road, Suite A
Portola Valley, CA 94028
650.851.9335
kevin@cjwarchitecture.com
http://www.cjwarchitecture.com
Qualifications:
LEED Accredited Design Professional
Description:
Architectural design firm located in the mid-Peninsula region of the SF Bay Area. Building types: institutional, commercial, leisure, multi-family residential, custom homes. Currently working on firestation with photovoltaics.
CoHousing Company
Katherine Mc Camant and Charles Durrett
Berkeley, CA 94702
510.549.9980
Coho@cohousingco.com
http://www.cohousingco.com
Qualifications:
Awards include: Mixed Use-Mixed Income Development Award from AIA for the East Lake Commons project, Atlanta, Ga; World Habitat Award; Award of Excellence from Berkeley Design Advocates, Berkeley Cohousing; Certificate of Recognition from National Association of Home Builders' Best in American Living competition; Building Innovation for Home Ownership award from US HUD.
Description:
The CoHousing Company is an architectural design and consulting firm formed specifically to build cohousing communities. They provide services in the area of group formation and facilitation, site search and acquisition, land development, architectural design, and project management. They work with resident groups through the entire development process. The CoHousing Company also provides design and consulting services nationwide.
Common Sense Design
Pete Gang
145 Keller Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
707.762.4838
pete@commonsensedesign.com
http://www.commonsensedesign.com
Qualifications:
Pete Gang is a former instructor in straw-bale and natural building classes at Real Goods, founding instructor in Sonoma State University's Green Building Certificate Program, and founding Board Member of Redwood Empire Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
Description:
Common Sense Design works collaboratively to create spirited, soulful green buildings and environments that are both functional and playful.
DeBoer Architects
Darrel DeBoer
1835 Pacific Ave.
Alameda, CA 94501
510.865.3669
Darrel@DeBoerArchitects.com
http://www.DeBoerArchitects.com
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly, SLO, 1984; licensed architect since 1990; member of Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility since 1992.
Description:
Focused on residential design, especially low-cost, high-craft strawbale walls, with highlights of earthen plaster, earthen floors and bamboo.
Djubaya
PO Box 2426
Sebastopol, CA 95473
707.824.4408
Djubaya@Comcast.net
http://www.rainbuilder.com
Qualifications:
Architectural designer, Permaculture designer, teacher and consultant. Developing a Permaculture institute, demonstration gardens & living system in Sebastopol, Ca.
Description:
I help people manifest their vision. From a simple idea, to a grand plan I support the process of creativity and guide it towards actualization. From the simple to the dynamic, I help people create there dreams.
Dreyfuss & Blackford Architects
Peter Saucerman
3540 Folsom Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95816
916.453.1234
psaucerman@db-arch.com
http://www.dreyfussblackford.com
Qualifications:
Peter is a LEED accredited professional, founding member of the Northern California Chapter of the USGBC and founding chair of the AIA Central Valley Committee on the Environment (COTE).
Description:
An award-winning firm for over 50 years, Dreyfuss & Blackford provides full planning & design services for public and private sector clients. Building types include courthouses, airports, administrative headquarters, emergency operations centers, colleges, universities, hospitals and clinics.
Drozda+Others Architects
Karen Drozda
645 Harrison Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.543.7433
kdrozda@dpluso.com
http://www.dpluso.com
Qualifications:
Serving ecologically oriented clients since 1993.
Description:
Providing architectural design services for residential remodel and new construction, commercial office tenant improvements, and manufacturing. We are a small firm specializing in projects that incorporate sustainable and environmentally sensitive materials and designs.
EcoDesign International
Sabrina Phillips, AIA
PO Box 2044
Santa Cruz, CA 95063
650.906.9272
info@ecodesign.us
http://www.ecodesign.us
Qualifications:
California Licensed Architect; NCARB Certification; LEED Accredited Professional; Master of Architecture (Solar Design); Bachelor of Environmental Design; AIASCV Committee on the Environment Board Liason; Member NCCUSGBC
Description:
EcoDesign International can help building owners, architects, and developers achieve their sustainable design goals for a wide range of projects. Our company provides the specialized knowledge and skills required to maximize the potential for green building design and LEED certification.
Ecological Homes
Nancy Simpson
Willits, CA 95490
707.459.2595
ecological@pacific.net
Qualifications:
Description:
Design of green healthy homes and solutions for sick buildings, including bau-biology, energy-efficiency and passive solar.
EHDD Architecture
Brad Jacobson
500 Treat Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.285.9193
brad.jacobson@ehdd.com
http://www.ehdd.com
Qualifications:
LEED Accredited Professional; visiting lecturer on Green Architecture at Stanford University.
Description:
Project Architect on Carnegie Institution's Global Ecology Center at Stanford University.
ELS Architecture and Urban Design
Jason Wilkinson
2040 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
510.549.2929
jwilkinson@elsarch.com
http://www.elsarch.com
Qualifications:
ELS provides full architecture and urban design services with a comprehensive sustainable design approach. Our in-house LEED accredited staff collaborates with the design team and client to maximize performance within budget and sustainability objectives.
Description:
ELS championed new approaches 22 years ago, in the Energy Efficient State Office Building, San Jose, commissioned by then State Architect Sim van der Ryn. Our recent renovation of Berkeley's Civic Center reduced energy consumption and received the 2001 California Honor Award for energy efficient building from the AIACC and California's largest utility companies.
Gelfand RNP Architects
Chris Duncan, AIA
450 Geary Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94102
415.346.4040
mail@gelfandrnp.com
http://www.gelfandrnp.com
Qualifications:
LEED Certification, experience with energy efficient buildings and sustainable architecture.
Description:
Gelfand RNP Architects is a woman-owned, full service design office offering the involvement of principal architects typical of small practices, and the resources of larger offices in production and quality control. We are leaders in sustainable, energy-efficient design, community centers, affordable and special needs housing, educational facilities, and commercial projects.
Gensler
Nellie Reid
325 South First Street, Suite 200
San Jose, CA 95113
408.885.8100
nellie_reid@gensler.com
http://www.gensler.com
Qualifications:
Two LEED Certified Projects, three LEED Registered Projects (including Mineta San Jose Airport), and over 150 LEED Accredited Professionals.
Description:
Gensler's practice areas range from master planning, strategic planning, architecture and interior design to product design, branding and graphics. The firm has 25 offices worldwide.
Hawley Peterson & Snyder Architects
Sharon Refvem
100 View Street, Suite 100
Mountain View, CA 94041
650.968.2944 x224
srefvem@hpsarch.com
http://www.hpsarch.com
Qualifications:
LEED AP, Board Member of the Norhtern California Chapter of the USGBC, PA on first LEED 2.0 building in California, Sustainability consulting for City of San Jose projects.
Description:
Arhchitectural, Interior Design, Sustainability Consulting.
HDR
Kristin Ralff Douglas
650 Castro Street, Suite 500
Mountain View, CA 94041
650.943.2000
kralff@hdrinc.com
Qualifications:
For more than 25 years, clients have relied on HDR for planning and implementation of environmental and resource management projects including planning, design, licensing, operational support, and construction management.
Description:
HDR provides value-added tools and innovative programs that allow our clients to compete effectively under new market conditions. Through collaboration with clients, we deliver solutions that improve our clients competitiveness and their image with regulators, customers, stockholders and the community.
Hornberger + Worstell Architects
William Worthen
170 Maiden Lane, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.391.1080
worthen@hwiarchitects.com
http://www.hwiarchitects.com
Qualifications:
LEED 2.0 Accredited Professional staff; Member USBGC; LEED/green design services and cost/benefit analysis. Seminar: "The Process of Costing Green" - a case study of the green costing exercise for JFK University first presnted at the AIA National Convention, Charlotte NC, May 2002.
Description:
Hornberger + Worstell is a 60-person architectural practice that has served a broad range of clients and designed a wide variety of projects since its inception in 1980. Hornberger + Worstell is committed to providing our clients with quality, high-performance, integrated design services and strives to incorporate the best practices of sustainibility throughout the design and construction of our work. Our projects include educational facilities, hotels, resorts, student housing, residential and commercial mixed-use facilities.
Jacobs
Stephen Martin, PE
2525 Natomas Park Drive, Suite 370
Sacramento, CA 95833
916.568.4767
stephen.martin@jacobs.com
http://www.jacobs.com
Qualifications:
Jacobs has more than three dozen LEED Acredited Professionals nationally including several in the Sacramento office and is currently involved in over 40 building projects pursuing or having gained LEED Certification including 2 gold and 18 silver.
Description:
Jacobs provides services as the program manager, planner, designer (A/E), peer reviewer, construction manager, sustainability facilitator, and/or commissioning authority to a wide variety of institutional clients in the education, healthcare, justice, federal, and public building sectors.
Jacobson Silverstein Winslow / Degenhardt Architects
3106 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705
510.848.8861
info@jswarch.com
http://www.jswarch.com
Qualifications:
Involved in sustainable design community for over thirty years. Architects for Slide Ranch Environmental Education Center and many other green projects, both residential and institutional.
Description:
Small architectural firm offering complete design services. Green projects include homes, affordable housing, childcare, educational and religious buildings, including Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, CA. Experience with passive and active solar design, pv systems, rammed earth construction, etc; authors of Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press).
Jacobson Silverstein Winslow / Degenhardt Architects
Murray Silverstein
3106 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
510.848.8861
http://www.jswarch.com
Qualifications:
Over the past 25 years, we have taken a special interest in passive solar design, radiant floor heating, and use of non-toxic and renewable materials. Among our projects are 1) the only soil-earth residence in the Berkeley/Oakland hills, and 2) the new designs for Slide Ranch, an ecological institute in Marin county.
Description:
Fundamentally our concern is to create buildings of quality, appropriate to their settings, and satisfying to the people who inhabit them. We offer the full range of architectural services-from planning and program development, through design and construction documents, to on-site inspection. We work at all scales-from additions and remodeling through complete buildings or building complexes, to community plans.
Joe Odegard Architect
Joe Odegard
Mendocino, CA 95460
707.937.5774
Description:
"A building is big. It uses many resources. A 'sustainable' building should last at least several hundred years and be adaptable in design because we probably will not know all the uses our descendants will have for it. And it should be beautiful because people tend to preserve beautiful things. These are my goals when I design a sustainable building."
Kwan Henmi Architecture/Planning, Inc.
Sylvia Kwan
1 Beach Street, Suite 103
San Francisco, CA 94133
415.777.4770
http://www.kwanhenmi.com
Qualifications:
Designing Mission Bay N4/P1 Sustainable Residential High-Rise; LEED Accredited Professionals on staff; Member of the United States Green Building Council
Description:
Kwan Henmi provides architecture and planning services in the commercial, civic, housing, education and transportation markets. Projects range from tenant improvements for small retail businesses to large scale public projects such as the San Francisco MUNI Central Subway.
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
Marsha Maytum
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.495.1700
mmaytum@lmsarch.com
Description:
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects offers a full range of services and expertise in the areas of commercial; educational; housing; hospitality; retail and theater sustainable design practices. The firm completed the design of the Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the new Presidio National Park. The Thoreau Center for Sustainability, located in the rehabilitated historic wards of the Letterman Hospital, is the first privately financed project in the new Presidio National Park in San Francisco. The first phase of the Thoreau Center opened in April of 1996 as the new home for Tides Foundation, The Tides Center, Energy Foundation and Institute for Global Communications and sixteen other non-profit organizations that are working for community development and environmental stewardship.
Leger Wanaselja Architecture
Karl Wanaselja and Kate Leger
2808 Adeline Street #4
Berkeley, CA 94703
510.848.8901
lwarc@pacbell.net
http://www.lwarc.com
Qualifications:
Our projects have been featured in dozens of publications for their integration of aesthetics and green design. Our projects also have been awarded both local and national awards. In 2000 we received the Top Ten Green Building Projects award by the National AIA Committee on the Environment.
Description:
We are an architecture and general contracting firm with a specialty in ecological design. Our work includes design, ground-up construction, and renovation. We make beautiful, well-crafted buildings while minimizing harm to the environment. It is also our belief that, at its essence, a work of architecture is a functional work of art.
Lionakis Beaumont Design Group, Inc.
Karen Carr
1919 Nineteenth Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.558.1900
karen.carr@lbdg.com
http://www.lbdg.com
Qualifications:
LBDG has14 LEED accredited professionals. In-house Sustainable Advisory Team provides information to staff and clients. Green projects: Tahoe Truckee Middle School; Franchise Tax Board Office Complex; DMV Renovation; LBDG's offices.
Description:
LBDG provides architectural, structural engineering, interior design, and planning services. Major markets include Education, Healthcare, Civic/Commercial and Institutional. We integrate sustainable design principles as a basic part of the services we provide. We endeavor to design environmentally-sensitive projects while working within traditional design demands of aesthetics, performance, and budget.
Loisos + Ubbelohde Associates
George Loisos
5806 Lawton Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618-1511
510.547.4199
studio@coolshadow.com
http://www.coolshadow.com
Qualifications:
Over 20 years' experience in architectural consulting, design, and research in energy efficiency, daylighting and related software development. Firm members have advanced degrees with architectural practice and are LEED accredited.
Description:
We focus on sustainable design, specializing in daylighting and lighting controls, energy analysis, advanced curtain wall and glazing specifications, comfort, building performance simulation, and LEED certification. We emphasize a collaborative relationship with our clients, using both traditional and innovative technologies to achieve high-performance, environmentally responsive buildings.
LPA, Inc.
Steve Kendrick
1548 Eureka Road
Suite 101
Roseville, CA 95661
916.772.4300
skendrick@lpainc.com
http://www.lpainc.com
Qualifications:
With 5 LEED® Certified Projects in California, and numerous LEED® Accredited Professionals, LPA has demonstrated experience with the USGBC LEED® Rating System. LPA is a member of the USGBC and AIA, and has won over 300 design awards.
Description:
LPA is a multi-discipline architectural firm that specializes in sustainable design where an integrated ?holistic? process balances budget and sustainable requirements to find the right response for each solution. We provide architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and planning services.
MacLeod Design & Construction
Ian MacLeod
Berkeley, CA 94709
510.486.2317
macleoddesign@earthlink.net
Qualifications:
NARI Certified Green Builder
Description:
MacLeod Design & Construction specializes in high quality, site-specific design and building, emphasizing the use of renewable and recycled building products, natural and low-toxicity materials, recycling of construction waste, energy-efficient design and and construction, architectural daylighting and solar energy, and integration of the building with the landscape.
Mark Gorrell, Architect
Mark Gorrell
850 Mendocino Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94707
510.528.1208
markitekt@comcast.net
Qualifications:
Board of Directors of Berkeley EcoHouse. Former board member and president of Sustainable Business Alliance: Berkeley. Director of Berkeley Ecology Center. Have designed many projects with alternative systems and recycled and green materials.
Description:
Architectural services with emphasis on alternative energy systems, green and recycled materials. Have taught classes and lectured at various colleges and associations on green/alternatve design. I have designed resource recovery facilities around the world.
McCoppin Studios
Ned White
65 McCoppin Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.437.1420
ned@mccoppin.com
http://www.mccoppin.com
Qualifications:
Our experience includes two successful straw bale buildings as well as many more conventional buildings with a green emphasis.
Description:
We are an architecture firm which specializes in residential design utilizing green materials and passive and active solar energy systems whenever possible.
Mogavero Notestine Associates
David Mogavero
2012 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.443.1033
dmogavero@mognot.com
http://www.mognot.com
Qualifications:
We incorporate ecological approaches into each and every project. Our team includes six LEED Accredited Professionals.
Description:
For more than 20 years Mogavero Notestine Associates has been building livable communities through award-winning architecture, planning and urban design. They have a strong commitment to green sustainable design that has often overlapped with the environmental design requirements of providing comfortable places to live, work and play. The common thread that identifies work by the firm is the attention given to ecological issues, both environmental ecology and human ecology.
Naturally Inspired
Deborah Coburn
120 Terrace Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901
415.258.0543
http://www.naturallyinspired.net
Qualifications:
Thirty years in interior design. Twelve years with focus on green design. Residential projects and model homes. Author for "Natural Home" magazine articles on color and REDesign. Featured in Sunset magazine. Designer on HGTV "Homes of the Twenty First Century." Guest lecturer for UC Berkeley Extension programs on interior design and sustainability.
Description:
Deborah consults on colors, products, and interior design principles that use Nature as inspiration. She is an interior and exterior color consultant, using Nature's palettes, and an interior RE-designer, helping clients use what they already own.
Her practice has become increasingly specific to green design where she works as a consultant to clients who want to be environmentally conscious while making good design decisions.
Okamoto Saijo Architecture
Paul Okamoto
18 Bartol
San Francisco, CA 94609
415.788.2118
paul@os-architecture.com
http://www.os-architecture.com
Qualifications:
Founded in 1991, the architectural design partnership of Paul Okamoto and Eric Saijo have over thirty five years of combined experience. Both are licensed architects known for their work in the field of urban ecology, permaculture, social justice and sustainability. They are very familiar with community development projects having worked with many community groups and nonprofit organizations over the past two decades, and have completed two passive solar, rammed earth houses.
Description:
Full architectural and urban design services for single family residences, multifamily housing, and community buildings.
organicARCHITECT
Eric Corey Freed
1452 Bush Street, Studio 7
San Francisco, CA 94109 USA
415.474.7777
eric@organicarchitect.com
http://www.organicarchitect.com
Qualifications:
LEED Accredited Professional. Board Memebr of ADPSR (Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility - NorCal); Board of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies); Chair of Architecture, The San Francisco Design Museum; Member, AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE); Co-Founder, ecoTECTURE: The Online Journal of Ecological Design; Curator, ecoLOGIC Exhibition, 2004; Professor of Sustainable Design, Academy of Art.
Description:
Architect and designer Eric Corey Freed specializes in organic and environmental design as principal of his firm, organicARCHITECT. Eric studied under students of the great Frank Lloyd Wright and continues the tradition of Organic Architecture. He has over ten years of experience in residential ecological design and has been on the forefront of the sustainability movement.
Pamela Chang, Architect
Pamela Chang
701 Neilson Street
Berkeley, CA 94707
510.525.2870
pomalleychang@yahoo.com
Qualifications:
LEED certified (2002); California registered architect(~1985); California registered civil engineer(~1983)
Description:
Sole practitioner architect/civil engineer doing residential renovations in the Berkeley vicinity; author of short articles on green renovation; homeowner with solar electricity, hot water, passive solar, and other green features.
Quadriga
Philip Frankl
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
707.546.3561
philip@quadrigainc.com
Qualifications:
Description:
Quadriga specializes in innovative, functional design solutions for public sector, institutional, commercial, and residential projects. Their objectives are to be responsible to their clients, the community and the regional landscape. At Quadriga they measure success based on design excellence, client satisfaction, environmental vitality and sustainability.
Rammed Earth Works
David Easton
Napa, CA 94559
707.224.2532
david@rammedearthworks.com
http://www.rammedearthworks.com
Qualifications:
Description:
Rammed Earth Works specializes in the construction of stabilized earth walls for residential, commercial, winery, and landscape use. General partner David Easton is the country's leading practitioner of monolithic stabilized earth construction and the developer of the pise (TM) system for constructing walls using high-pressure air delivery. Natural earth is the most enduring and ecologically responsible of all wall materials.
Randy Eveleigh, Architect
Randy Eveleigh
1542 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
510.843.6750
rgeve@aol.com
Qualifications:
California Licensed Architect. Over 20 years experience with solar and energy efficient design.
Description:
Full range of Architectural Services from site selection to design to construction administration. I specify green materials and procedures on all projects. As a former general contractor I understand the construction process.
Ratcliff
Dan Meza
5856 Doyle Street
Emeryville, CA 94608
510.899.6400
info@ratcliffarch.com
http://www.ratcliffarch.com
Qualifications:
The firm has in place a sustainable design leadership group (CEDR) and an interactive website called "The Green Matrix" which outlines available sustainable strategies and technologies by Design phase.
Description:
Since 1906, Ratcliff has provided planning, architectural, and interior design services for academic, healthcare, and institutional clients. We strive to incorporate sustainable design concepts into all areas of our practice and seek to collaborate with clients who share these values. Our designs explore solutions in which a building can give back more than it takes.
Right Design Lab
Carroll Moore
5540 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94618
510.597.1895
carroll@rdlab.com
http://www.rdlab.com
Qualifications:
20+ years of work in sustainable design. Clients range from Amnesty International to ACWMA, homeowners and product manufacturers. Sustainable Business Alliance Board Member; ADPSR member.
Description:
Right Design Lab integrates environmental, economic and social criteria into intuitive, whole-systems designs. Our work includes business and residential design, product design, furnishings, materials and systems development, research and training.
Siegel & Strain Architects
Architects and Designers
Henry Siegel and Larry Strain
1295 59th Street
Emeryville, CA 94608
510.547.8092
info@siegelstrain.com
http://www.siegelstrain.com
Qualifications:
LEED 2.0 Accredited Professionals. Awards include: 2003 - Excellence in Design Award, Environmental Design & Construction Magazine: Camp Arroyo; Earth Day Top Ten Award, National AIA Committee on the Environment: Wine Creek Road Residence. 2002 - Savings By Design Award, AIACC and PG&E: Camp Arroyo; Earth Day Top Ten Award, National AIA Committee on the Environment: Camp Arroyo. 2000 - Earth Day Top Ten Award, National AIA Committee on the Environment: Emeryville Resourceful Building Project. 1999 - Architecture Magazine Award for Architectural Research: Emeryville Resourceful Building Project. 1998 - The AIA East Bay Practice & Technology Award: reSourceful Specifications.
Description:
Siegel & Strain Architects is an innovative, award-winning architectural design firm with extensive, practical experience in ecological site and building design. Project types include housing, historic preservation, schools and camps. Siegel & Strain is actively involved in the research and use of "green" building materials; their guideline specification is included in the Green Spec Directory, published by Building Green, Inc.
Skillful Means
John Swearingen
PO Box 207
Junction City, CA 96048
530.623.4479
resource@skillful-means.com
http://www.skillful-means.com
Qualifications:
Skillful Means has over twenty years of experience in designing and building energy-efficient buildings that are safe and comfortable for the people who use them. LEED certified.
Description:
We are a client-oriented, design/build firm with decades of experience in sustainable design and technology. With both licensed architects and builders on our design staff, we're able to easily combine visionary design with sensible and appropriate technology.
SMWM
Anthony Bernheim, FAIA
989 Market Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.546.0400
abernheim@smwm.com
http://www.smwm.com
Qualifications:
More than 20 years experience in green, sustainable and "high performance" project planning and design. USGBC LEED Accredited Professional. Member of Society for College and University Planning Sustainability Task Force, International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Description:
Provide sustainable design planning, architectural and interior design services. Use Collaborative Sustainability Process and new IAQ procedures.
TLCD Architecture
Danny Strening
111 Santa Rosa Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
707.525.5600
danny.strening@tlcd.com
http://www.tlcd.com
Qualifications:
While pursuing my Masters in Architecture at the University of Oregon I worked as a Graduate Research Fellow in the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory. I am a LEED Accredited Professional.
Description:
TLCD Architecture is a full service architecture firm with an emphasis on educational, institutional, health care and other assorted project types.
Todd Jersey Architecture
Todd Jersey
1218 Evelyn Ave
Berkeley, CA 94706
510.524.5666
todd@toddjerseyarchitecture.com
http://www.toddjerseyarchitecture.com
Qualifications:
We are an architecture firm with extensive experience in sustainable architecture for our entire career and in business in the San Francisco Bay area for the last 10 years.
Description:
Services include: Architecture, Master Planning, Green Building Design, Permaculture Design, Site Design, Solar Design and Interiors. Projects include: Churches, Schools, Environmental Education Centers, Residences, Agricultural Buildings, Retial, Office and Creative Re-use.
