Materials
Healthy & Sustainable Materials Program Development
Better Materials for Over 20 Years
Building materials have myriad impacts we must understand, measure, manage, and mitigate. These include toxicity to human beings and the environment, embodied carbon, resource depletion, and forced labor. Holding the leading position in building material sustainability, Brightworks works with industry leaders to define industry transformational efforts and specify better materials for individual environments as well.
- Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
- Carbon Neutrality
- Custom Healthy Materials
- Material Databases
- Material Health Assessment
- Material Re-Use
- Materials Vetting
- Resiliency
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Supplier & Vendor Engagement
- Supply Chain Engagement
- Sustainable & Healthy Materials
- Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment
- Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (WBLCA)
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Representative Clients
City of Santa Monica
Pico Branch Library
City of Santa Monica
Pico Branch Library
Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica's LEED-Platinum-Certified Pico Branch Library boasts water cisterns, a photovoltaic solar array, extensive daylight in interior spaces, and views to the outdoors. The project also won the USGBC LA's 2015 Innovation Award.
Practices Engaged:
Sustainable Built Environments
Industry Sectors:
Cultural, Government, State & Local
Building Types:
Libraries
Meta
Corporate Headquarters
Meta
Corporate Headquarters
Menlo Park, CA
Commissioned by Mark Zuckerberg and designed by Frank Gehry, this new headquarters for Facebook provides an innovative open work environment for employees. The building also features a zoned rooftop landscape offering unmatched views of San Francisco Bay.
Practices Engaged:
Sustainable Built Environments
Industry Sectors:
Corporate
Building Types:
Large-Scale Developments / Megadevelopments, Offices (Headquarters)
University of Southern California
30 Year Campus Masterplan
University of Southern California
30 Year Campus Masterplan
Los Angeles, CA
Addressing outdoor environments, land use, transportation, water, energy, building design, waste, recycling, and hazardous materials, Brightworks Sustainability developed sustainability concepts for USC's 30-year master plan, the university's first-ever master plan.
Practices Engaged:
Sustainable Built Environments
Industry Sectors:
Education, Higher
Building Types:
Campuses, Districts & Neighborhoods
Vantage Data Centers
Embodied & Operational Carbon Strategy
Vantage Data Centers
Embodied & Operational Carbon Strategy
Santa Clara, CA
Brightworks supported this data center developer in reducing embodied and operational carbon by first benchmarking their designs, then identifying high-impact measures in a variety of diverse climates to improve ongoing energy performance.
Practices Engaged:
Carbon
Industry Sectors:
Data Center
Building Types:
Data Centers
Tishman Speyer
Brannan Square Phase 1
Tishman Speyer
Brannan Square Phase 1
San Francisco, CA
Tishman Speyer’s ambitious Brannan Square will bring three cutting edge mixed-use office buildings to San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. 4.5 acres in total, the buildings will host over one million square feet of Class A office space, and the entire development will host a new one-acre public park with offerings for all ages including playgrounds, childcare facilities, a farmers’ market and a rich network of sidewalks and bike paths. The buildings are mindful of where they will sit on high-water flood lines and will ensure resilience via green roofing and below-grade stormwater storage.
Practices Engaged:
Sustainable Built Environments
Industry Sectors:
Corporate, Residential, Retail
Building Types:
Campuses, Districts & Neighborhoods, Offices (Core & Shell)
California Institute of Technology, Caltech
Gates Thomas Engineering Laboratory
California Institute of Technology, Caltech
Gates Thomas Engineering Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Caltech's $15-million renovation of its Gates Thomas Laboratory building included extensive work on every floor and the addition of an 88-seat auditorium. Sustainable features of the new Gates Thomas Laboratory include an aggressively energy-efficient design and energy system and the production of considerable renewable energy on-site.
Practices Engaged:
Energy, Sustainable Built Environments
Industry Sectors:
Education, Higher, Laboratory & Life Science
Building Types:
Academic Instruction, Campuses, Districts & Neighborhoods, Laboratories