Happy Earth Day! By Nick Noyes, Shavon Prophet As an industry, green building is on pace to double every three years in large part due to the growing adoption of green building standards such as LEED, Living Building Challenge and Well. This year’s Earth Day campaign theme is “Environmental & Climate Literacy,” and Integrated Eco…
One of our Healthy Building Materials Specialists wrote this piece to answer the question. Here is a description of material vetting work – a knight’s tale if you will: In a field that is constantly changing, no two correspondences are the same. There are a host of factors that influence the vetting process. Manufacturers’ familiarity with Living Building Challenge…
IES is excited to be a partner in Binghamton University’s (Binghamton, NY) first Living Building Challenge project, called Nuthatch Hollow.
Our first LBC project, The Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College, has achieved Petal Certification.
Meet Matt Root. He will be our Boston based project manager. Matt comes to IES from CLEAResult, an Austin, Texas-based energy efficiency consulting firm, where he led a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical engineers, building-enclosure experts and building scientists. His experience includes serving as a Home Energy Rating System rater and then as a LEED for…
IES is a “Just.” company, providing transparency in our overall operations and a commitment to our employees and community.
Our staff grew, so we needed to move. Our office is now in downtown North Adams, around the corner from Mass MoCA.
Inhabitat / September 2, 2016 / Lacy Cooke According to Bruner/Cott, all the building materials are “Red List compliant” and they avoided products containing toxic chemicals. The building materials aren’t the only green aspects of the Kern Center. A rainwater harvesting system allows for net-zero water, and the roof is decked out with large solar…
MASS Live / April 15, 2016 / Dave Roback Hampshire designed the building with the goal of becoming only the ninth building worldwide certified under the most advanced green building standard, the Living Building Challenge (LBC). The standard aims to break society’s dependence on environmentally harmful practices, to protect not only the environment but also the…
Charley Stevenson, owner of Integrated Eco Strategy, was named a 2015 Living Building Hero by the International Living Future Institute.