Creating deep-green, human-centered, high-performance buildings

Studio Verde is dedicated to empowering architects and engineers to create high-performance buildings that set new standards in sustainability, efficiency, and occupant well-being. Our comprehensive range of services is designed to assist you at every stage of the design and engineering process, ensuring your projects align with the highest sustainability goals and certifications.

Sustainability Project Management

Integrative Design

Energy Modeling

CalGreen Code Compliance

Green Material Strategies

Green Specs

Zero Net Energy (ZNE) & All-Electric Buildings

Green Building Rating Systems

Studio Verde's Sustainability Project Management service offers a seamless approach to integrate sustainable design principles into your project. Our seasoned architects and sustainability experts work hand in hand with you from project inception to ensure that sustainable design principles are seamlessly integrated into every aspect of your project.

Integrative design is at the heart of our approach. We facilitate collaborative processes that involve architects, engineers, and other stakeholders working together to optimize building performance. By breaking down silos and fostering cross-disciplinary communication, we ensure that sustainability is seamlessly integrated into the project from the outset.

We provide advanced energy modeling services to help you understand and optimize a building's energy consumption and efficiency Our team consists of talented energy modeling experts and building scientists with a plethora of experience in the building simulation world. By integrating energy modeling into the early stages of design, you can create buildings that are significantly more energy-efficient and cost-effective.

Studio Verde offers comprehensive Cal Green Compliance support, ensuring that your project meets the stringent California green building standards.  Our expert team collaborates closely with your project's design and construction team, facilitating the integration of Cal Green compliance right from the initial design charrette. Our meticulous approach ensures that your project aligns seamlessly with Cal Green standards and provides all the necessary information for the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) to grant your building permit.

We provide strategy plans to empower architects in making environmentally conscious choices regarding high-performance building materials, including a comprehensive evaluation of performance, toxicity, carbon impact, and environmental compliance. Our team collaborates closely with architects to seamlessly integrate sustainable materials, streamlining the selection process, and integration into the project specifications. This ensures that every facet of the project aligns with sustainability principles, fostering the creation of eco-friendly, high-performance buildings with a minimized carbon footprint.

Studio Verde can revise your project specifications to seamlessly incorporate environmentally friendly building materials, eliminating uncertainty for contractors and ensuring compliance with rigorous sustainability criteria before material orders are placed. Our sustainable specifications streamline the procurement process, providing clear procedures for builders to confidently source and use these materials without delays. By including performance pathways specifically tailored for creating low carbon buildings, our green specs packages ensure critical structural components that utilize concrete and steel meet sustainability goals without compromising strength and integrity.

Creating Zero Net Energy (ZNE) buildings is a visionary approach to sustainable design, aiming to offset a building's annual energy consumption with on-site renewable energy generation. The path to achieving ZNE status involves a sequence of strategic steps, ensuring that every aspect of a building contributes to energy efficiency. We guide clients through a comprehensive ZNE sequence, starting with passive design strategies and optimizing the building envelope to minimize energy demand. From efficient lighting systems to high-performance mechanical equipment and the integration of on-site solar and storage solutions, our expertise ensures the successful realization of ZNE projects, reducing environmental impact and fostering long-term cost savings.

We are Experts in the implementation Green Building Rating Systems for Certifications. We specialize in:

  • LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

  • WELL Building Standard

  • Collaborative for High Performance Schools: CHPS

  • Living Building Challenge

  • Net Zero Energy and Net Zero Carbon