Who Should Work With Us?

In our first post this week, we introduced the paper project and why we were undertaking it. Yesterday we outlined why we wanted to work with an academic institution. Today we’re going to look at who our partners on the project will be.

Build2Sustain operates as a construction consultant. That is to say our role is to coordinate the project, manage the timeline and deliverables, facilitate communication between stakeholders, maintain transparency of process, develop sustainability strategy, and of course recruit team members.

Back in November we reached out to the community of architects and designers for resumes to build out the team of professional B2S could call on for future projects. If you submitted to that request...we thank you and depending on the location of our academic partner, we will certainly be contacting you. If you didn’t respond to that request, lets talk a little bit of who our ideal architect will be.

We’re looking for an architect who’s willing, nay enthusiastic about sharing their design process with the worldwide design/build community. Opening up the process of designing solutions is at the core of Build2Sustain’s ethos. Our architect is captain of the ship and so he/she must be ready to be as open as possible.

Sustainability is imperative (heck, it’s in our name) so this can’t be our architect’s first “green” design. A background in LEED qualification and standards is required but not sufficient to qualify as our architect.

All that being said, we’re looking to partner with an architect (or architecture firm) that’s ready to think differently about how to work with clients, what sustainability means, and how to change the world.

What about other disciplines? Lighting designers, mechanical engineers, building envelope experts, landscape architects...the list is endless. The short answer is...we just don’t know yet. Once we’ve partnered with an college/university we’ll know better what their needs are, at that time we’ll be able to round our the team. If you’re interested..please contact us. We’d love to connect with you...

Are you up for it? Email us paperproject@build2sustain.com

Tomorrow on the blog, I’ll outline what the 12-week program entails is and what our client and design team can expect to attain at the end of that process. Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Email us...or as always the comment section awa

Join The Team

If you've been following our twitter account, you already know that we're moving beyond theory and becoming a business. It's time to take our concepts out of the lab, so to speak, and bring them to our pilot project. One step...to build our roster of design/build professionals. We are looking for....

Architects

Commissioning Agents

HVAC Engineers

BMS Control Specialists

Life Safety Engineers

Structural Engineers

Insulation Specialists

Window Specialists

Lighting Designers

Interior Designers

General Contractors

Basically, if your skill set is applicable to sustainable retrofit/renovation we want to hear from you.

We're looking for individuals and firms passionate about sustainable design with a proven track record. Right now applicants centered in the Tri-state and New England areas will be given special consideration due to current client leads. However, we do not want to discourage pros from around the country from reaching out to us. If you work in this space, we want to hear from you.

There are two things you should remember before reaching out to B2S. The first is that this pilot project, like all of our work strives for 100% transparency. Through blog posts, twitter, and facebook feeds and web-based video every piece of this renovation will be transparent to the world through our website. We are striving to develop and proliferate best practices for sustainable commercial renovation and as such we need professionals willing to open up their process to the rest of the world.

Next, part of this pilot project is reducing cost for our client. Remember, this is an experiment and as such we are trying to keep our client's costs to a minimum. That said, we will give special consideration to professionals willing to work on a pro-bono or low cost basis. We believe the exposure you will receive through the intellectual property we aggregate and the web based media we broadcast are tangible benefits for any practice looking to build it's reputation in the sustainable construction market.

If you're interested or want to pass along your information, please email us at jointheteam@build2sustain.com

We look forward to hearing from you.