Our consultants analyze such interconnected issues as site and building design, energy and water efficiency, resource-efficient construction, lighting and mechanical design, and building ecology. The team generates a range of available options that address the requirements of a particular project and yield an integrated, attractive, functional, and cost-effective design responsive to market, financial, approvals, and other project requirements. This allows practitioners to create and manage the built environment in ways that dramatically improve human and natural communities.

Moreover, through the Research & Consulting, we are able to further boost the profitability of facility improvements with a comprehensive range of synergistic services relating to resource use and emissions, process and product design, community liaison, and organizational implementation.
 
Extensive Experience
BE's consulting is backed by extensive project work and research. Our team has consulted on more than 300 projects worldwide, including the "greening" of the White House, Four Times Square skyscraper, LucasFilm's Presidio studios, and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Village. Our work has been featured in the top media, including Architecture, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and staff members have been interviewed on NPR, CNN, and PBS's Future Quest.

Additionally, we have documented more than 100 case studies of green developments. Analysis of these case studies formed the basis for our landmark 1998 book Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate and companion Green Developments CD-ROM. Additionally, members of our staff have studied how a variety of firms have increased worker productivity through increased lighting, heating, and/or cooling efficiency—research that led to the influential report "Greening the Building and the Bottom Line: Increasing Productivity through Energy-Efficient Design."

More specifics:

• RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team Services Offered
  
• Representative Built Environment Projects
  
• The Dollars & Sense of Green Development
  
• Awards & Affiliations
  
• RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team—Key Staff & Contact Information
  
• Statement of Qualifications—RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team (PDF)
  
• Built Environment's—Why Build Green? (PDF)