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Green Building Services

Our Green Building Services team empowers communities through sustainable development, collaborating with developers to construct residential and mixed-use buildings that serve community needs and are healthy, affordable, and resilient. We support projects from feasibility, through construction, project closeout, and final certification.

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As a one-stop project management team for green building services in new construction or gut rehab projects, Green Building staff serve as the sustainability consultant on new construction and significant rehab projects seeking certification projects. The staff are certified in 16 Green Building rating systems, and are engaged early and throughout multi-year projects.

  • We are engaged with developers and their design team early and throughout multi-year projects. Our comprehensive suite of services helps our clients to conceive, plan, design, build, certify and verify results on high-performance projects.

  • Evaluating performance for a variety of codes, certifications, and programs. We provide clients with modeling services in:

    • WUFI Passive

    • eQUEST/ Energy Plus

    • Ekotrope

  • On green building certification projects, our project management staff collaboratively peer-reviews complex architectural and engineering designs, working in step with design teams to integrate energy efficiency while balancing the cost constraints of affordable housing projects, using certification requirements and energy modeling to guide decision making. Energy Raters facilitate trainings for project teams regarding construction methods, sequencing, and coordination needed to achieve above-code standards, ensuring accountability through verification testing and offering real-time troubleshooting support to achieve project goals. We support certifications including Passive House, LEED, ENERGY STAR, ZERH, IAP, NGBS, WELL, and Enterprise Green Communities

  • We provide testing and verification services throughout the construction process, ensuring that objectives are met and troubleshooting occurs to meet challenges in real time.

  • Estimating and comparing total costs of building or system options over their lifetime, providing financial planning to make design and construction decisions.

  • Working with clients to ensure the final Operations & Maintenance manuals include all high performance features of their building. Providing a training session to the O&M staff, supporting their understanding of the new equipment and features within the building; educating the maintenance staff to enable them to educate tenants on the building and their units.

  • We help clients maximize their financial return and efficiency by shepherding developments through the most financially advantageous programs.

  • New Ecology is a Massachusetts Statewide Contractor through the Statewide Contract for PRF74 Energy, Climate Action, and Facility Advisory Services.