Green building consulting

History: A decade of green building

Two green building programs & rating systems have become the national standard since 1998: the EPA's ENERGY STAR® & the US Green Building Council®'s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Rating System.

                        

Voluntary green strategies have become mandatory in many markets. And, yesterday's LEED Gold may be tomorrow's LEED Silver or Certified, or buildings can lose their ENERGY STAR label, since rating systems are upgraded every 3-4 years.

More importantly, tenants' & owners' expectations green standard are trending higher every year as green premiums decline along with the industry's cumulative experience. For example, LEED Gold certified became the global standard in 2006 & 2007. And, during the recession, LEED Silver certified returned as the temporary global standard.

Our services

Since 2005, Momentum Bay has served as the Business Developer for one of the leading green building consultancies in the world -- one of only nine firms on contract with the US Green Building Council to perform certification reviews of all LEED® for New Construction project applications.

This firm's experienced green team of consultants is comprised of architects, engineers, an environmental scientist, planners & interior designers, of whom several are LEED faculty members.

The firm was the 30th member of the USGBC® (out of more than 20,000 members today).

Their 50+ person team with offices nationwide has successfully managed the certification of more than 150 LEED certified projects - roughly 5% of all the LEED certified projects worldwide as of October 2009 - & has hundreds of other LEED projects in process or with certifications pending. This firm also managed the publication of the new LEED 2009 Reference Guides. Momentum Bay chose to partner with them as their business developer because they are more experienced, more efficient & more affordable than any other firm worldwide.

Texas projects

Some of our most recent & current Texas projects include:

• Green Bank, one of the nation's few banks focused on sustainability. This community bank surpassed its initial target of LEED for New Construction "Certified" & achieved LEED Gold certification, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process

    

• The Monarch School, one of the nation's leading K-12 schools for students with neurological differences (primarily related to autism). We were able to propel the team affordably from its initial LEED target level of "Certified" to "Gold" and achieve the EPA's rare "Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR" certification, saving over $170,000 in 25 years on energy alone.


• several medical office buildings


• a construction company's corporate headquarters


• a community college


• a municipal building


• a north Texas courthouse, &


• a large automotive project.

Core competencies

Our partner's consultants work for real estate owners, developers, contractors, architects & managers, complementing teams in service areas where teams desire. For example, teams may not have a certain expertise, may not have immediate capacity for projects, or may not be able to provide services as affordably. So, the firm's consultants provide non-competitive services, as clients request.

We also find that, by including this leading green building consultancy on teams, clients are able to win more projects by differentiating their competitive bids & proposals effectively, given the consultancy's breadth & depth of green building leadership & expertise.

Most important to Momentum Bay is the fact that our sustainable real estate experts are genuinely interested in helping Texas create strong local networks of other green experts. Our partner's strengths include the following training, consulting & technical services:

1.  Training & Facilitation:  eco-charrette facilitation, LEED consulting, LEED project management, LEED documentation, greening specifications, customized & comprehensive green building workshops, & LEED training for green teams (from CEO to subcontractors) that cover the topics of green building market economics, planning / design / construction, professional roles in green building, & USGBC & LEED Rating Systems.

2.  Consulting:  building management strategies for existing buildings, & advanced climate solutions, including:

Building Management Strategies

• Capital improvements cost / benefit analysis

Advanced climate solutions

• Energy modeling & analysis
• Daylight modeling & analysis
• Bioclimatic analysis
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Carbon footprinting
• Greenhouse gas emissions reduction reporting
• Natural ventilation design
• Displacement ventilation design
• Life cycle analysis
• Thermal comfort
• Urban air pollution & contaminants analysis

3.  Technical:  energy modeling, daylight analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), life cycle cost analysis (LCA), & in one region of the country commissioning (Cx), retrocommissioning (RCx), & building & facilities operations audits.

>> For more information, please email greenbuilding@momentumbay.com.

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