Sustainable Built Environments
Sustainable Building Materials
Sustainable 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, circularity, 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 (CA)
Pico Branch Library
City of Santa Monica (CA)
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:
Government & Public Service (Local / Municipal)
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:
Technology (Non-Bio)
Building Types:
Offices (Headquarters), Large-Scale Developments / Megadevelopments
University of Southern California (USC)
30 Year Campus Masterplan
University of Southern California (USC)
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:
Higher Education (Private Four-Year+)
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:
Real Estate Development, Technology (Non-Bio)
Building Types:
Data Centers
Autodesk
Modular Construction Sustainability
Autodesk
Modular Construction Sustainability
Vallejo, CA
In an effort to drive carbon reduction for a new, modular multi-family housing development, Autodesk engaged Brightworks Sustainability to incorporate carbon considerations into its generative design process. These ranged from carbon sequestration in the landscape to reducing the total embodied carbon in the modular units and site design.
Practices Engaged:
Sustainable Built Environments, Carbon
Industry Sectors:
Building Products & Construction Materials, Manufacturing, Research & Development (R&D)
Building Types:
Multifamily Residential
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
Hispanic Serving Institution Hub
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
Hispanic Serving Institution Hub
Northridge, CA
In partnership with California Governor Gavin Newsom and Apple, CSUN is building this new, 35,000-square-foot facility to inspire diverse representation in STEM careers. Spaces in the building include engineering labs, outreach space, and makerspaces.
Practices Engaged:
Sustainable Built Environments
Industry Sectors:
Higher Education (Public Four-Year+)
Building Types:
Academic Instruction