Materials
Support for Architects & Designers
Selecting Sustainable Materials
Architecture and design firms are responsible for specifying materials that align with their clients' sustainability goals. With the leading material human and environmental health experts in practice today, Brightworks can expertly support design teams better than anyone to understand the complexity of material certifications and sustainability frameworks and support transformation of the material industry.
- Advanced Energy Retrofits
- BREEAM
- Biomimicry
- Biophilia & Biophilic Design
- Building Performance Standards
- CALGreen
- Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
- Carbon Neutrality
- Carbon Offsets
- Carbon and Energy Auditing
- Circularity in Materials
- Climate Adaptation Planning
- Custom Healthy Materials Programs
- Custom Sustainable Materials
- Decarbonization
- Deep Energy Efficiency
- Embodied Carbon Analysis
- Energy Audits
- Energy Modeling
- GHG Protocol Compliance
- GRESB
- GRI
- Government Incentives
- Guides & Playbooks
- IAQ
- Implementation Planning
- Interiors
- Just Transition Planning
- LEED
- Master Planning
- Material Re-Use
- Materials Vetting
- Net Zero Analysis
- Recommissioning
- Renewable Energy Credits (REC)
- Renewables & Clean Energy
- Residential Sustainability Planning
- Resiliency
- SASB
- SBTi
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Supply Chain Engagement
- Sustainability Compliance Management
- Sustainability Reporting & ESG Disclosure
- TCFD
- WELL Certification
- Water Audits
- Water Reduction Strategies
- Whole Building Life Cycle Analysis
- Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment
- Zero Carbon
Related Services
Key Contacts
Representative Clients
Related
One Hudson Yards Apartments
Related
One Hudson Yards Apartments
New York, NY
Overlooking Hudson Yards and the High Line, the LEED Gold Abington House was Related’s first project on Hudson Yards. Aside from a healthy interior emphasis, the team pursued strategies to minimize water use and employ efficient and finely-tuned building energy systems.
Practices Engaged:
Healthier Built Environments
Industry Sectors:
Real Estate Development
Building Types:
Multifamily Residential
Salesforce
Salesforce Tower New York
Salesforce
Salesforce Tower New York
New York, NY
In 2017, Salesforce took over 3 Bryant Park, an iconic New York skyscraper. Seeking to embody its recent commitments to sustainable operations, Salesforce engaged Brightworks in its capacity as the lead sustainability consultant for its Global Workplace Program to manage the LEED certification program for the fit-out of seven floors. Like all its offices, the New York space follows Salesforce’s global design philosophy and aims to promote a connection with nature while offering employees and visitors spaces of wellness and reprieve.
Practices Engaged:
Sustainable Built Environments
Industry Sectors:
Technology (Non-Bio)
Building Types:
Offices (Interiors)
State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook U.)
Javits Lecture Center Renovation
State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook U.)
Javits Lecture Center Renovation
Stony Brook, NY
As part of its renovation, the Stony Brook University Javits Lecture Hall had to comply with SUCF Directive 1B-2 for Deep Energy Retrofits. Brightworks worked with the design team as the energy analyst for the project.
Practices Engaged:
Sustainable Built Environments, Energy
Industry Sectors:
Higher Education (Public Four-Year+)
Building Types:
Academic Instruction