The Green Roundtable offers a variety of services to build capacity and provide support to owners, developers, contractors and design professionals who want to incorporate green principles and practices into their businesses and the built environment.
GRT's role varies depending on the needs of the client and the level of experience of the design team. We can provide technical assistance, and manage the LEED® rating system process, or act as owner's representative to coordinate the team and facilitate a high level of integration between the disciplines and experts.
Our green building consulting services include the following:
For New Construction/Renovation
GRT provides services to both public and private sector clients on all building types and scales.
• Green Design Charrettes
• Process Facilitation - Integrated Design Process
• Feasibility Studies - GRT has experience assessing a range of passive, hybrid, active and renewable system types (water, energy, waste, transportation, climate, etc). We look at the interaction of the various systems to assess feasibility, payback, and how they actually compare to alternative systems.
• LEED® support - strategy, calculations, documentation and submittals (for New Construction, Commercial Interiors, Core & Shell, Neighborhood Development, pilot programs and Application Guides)
• Site planning, Low Impact Development (LID) - climate audit, building consumption profiles, preliminary systems analysis, life cycle cost analysis
• Building System Integration - Peer review analysis for health and high performance
Masterplanning & Campus Assessment
GRT’s services support conservation strategies across all corporate and educational campus activities, as well as current and future capital projects.
• Sustainability masterplan – infrastructure and building development
• Carbon Footprint Analysis
• Internal Education
• Institutional Policy and Standards Development
• LEED Multiple Buildings and On-Campus Building Projects
For Existing Buildings - Facility Asset Management
Existing property offers many opportunities for capturing operational savings and appealing to the increasing demand for green buildings by building occupants and tenants.
• Feasibility assessment for LEED Existing Building and High Performance Operations
• Strategic planning & implementation for green asset management initiatives
Boot Camp
Boot Camp combines building analysis with internal strategic planning. It helps owners and developers to strategically assess their portfolio and determine what internal support and changes need to occur to achieve their green objectives. The goal of this program is to build internal capacity to launch and run green initiatives independently.
• Baseline assessment
• Goal Setting
• Analysis of portfolio
• Indicators and Metrics
• Training and education
• Pilot project support