Current Projects

Keene Elementary School
Location: Keene, NH
Architect: Frank Marinace Architects
Building Type: Public School
Size: 165,000 ft²; 900 Students
Rating: Pursuing CHPS

Project Features:
  - Wood-chip fueled heating system
  - Daylighting with lighting controls minimizes lighting energy use
  - 40% more energy efficient than CHPS standards
  - Rainwater collection system for landscape irrigation

Mason Elementary School
Location: Mason, NH
Architect: Dan Scully Architect
Building Type: Public School Addition and Energy Efficiency Retrofits
Size: 10,000 square foot addition and 10,000 square foot existing building retrofit
Rating: Pursuing CHPS


G.E. Healthcare DXD Production Facility
Location: Troy, NY
Architect: The H.L. Turner Group Inc.
Building Type: Manufacturing Facility
Size: 230,000 ft²
Rating: Pursuing LEED New Construction v2.2 - Gold


White Mountain National Forest Administrative Complex
Location: Campton, New Hampshire
Architect: URS Corporation
Building Type: Office Building and Visitor Center
Size: 37,000 ft²
Rating: Pursuing LEED for New Construction v2.1 – Gold


New Hampshire Institute of Technology
Health Education and Academic Center
Location: Concord, NH
Owner: State of New Hampshire
Architect: DC Architects
Building Type: Institutional
Size: 34,000 square feet
Rating: Pursuing LEED for New Construction -  Silver

Project Features:
  - Alternative Transportation:  Bicycle commuter facilities and Proximity to Mass Transit
  - Water-saving plumbing fixtures
  - 43% more energy efficient than code
  - Native plantings

Nobis Engineering Merrimack Valley Headquarters
Location: Lowell, MA
Architect: Durkee Brown Viveiros and Werenfels Architects
Building Type: Office Building
Size: 19,000 square feet
Rating: Pursuing LEED for New Construction - Silver

Sullivan Construction, Inc.
Location: Bedford, NH
Renovation and fit-up of a 5,600 ft² building
Rating: Pursuing LEED-CI Platinum

Certified Projects

Freidman Court II
Location: Concord, NH
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Rating: LEED for Homes - Silver

AVA Gallery and Art Center

    
Gary Hall Photography

Location: Lebanon, NH
Architect: Banwell Architects
Building Type: Office Building
Size: 19,000 ft²
Rating: Certified LEED for New Construction v2.2 - Gold
Project Features: 
  - Reused a 19^th century garment factory
  - Over 50% improvement in energy performance over ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004
  - Costs comparable to a conventional (i.e. non-green) renovation

New Hampshire Audubon McLane Center
Location: Concord, NH
Architect: Sheer McCrystal Palson
Building Type: Office Building and Visitor Center
Size: 12,000 square feet
Rating: Certified LEED for New Construction v2.1 – Gold (46 points)

Project Features
  - 40% reduction in energy use compared to ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999
  - A single wood pellet boiler provides 11% of the building’s energy supply
  - 30,000 board feet of Eastern White Pine was harvested on-site and used to construct the building
  - Water use reduction of over 67% through a combination of innovative technologies that also protect water quality – composting toilets, waterless urinals, and a greywater recycling system.

Portsmouth Public Library
Location: Portsmouth, NH
Size: 38,000 ft²
Rating: Certified LEED for New Contstruction - Silver

850 Winter Street at Reservoir Woods
Location: Waltham, MA
Owner: Davis Marcus Partners
Architect: Elkus Manfredi Architects
Building Type: Office Building
Size: 200,000 ft²
Rating: Certified LEED for Core and Shell v2.0 – Gold

Project Features:
  - Extensive open space and walking trails
  - Over 90% demolition and construction waste diverted from landfill
  - Unobstructed views to nature from over 90% of regularly occupied spaces

Nubanusit Co-Housing Unit 13
Location: Peterborough, NH
Architect: O’Neil Pennoyer Architects
Building Type: Single family home
Size: 1,790 ft²
Rating: Certified LEED for Homes - Platinum
Project Features:
 - drought tolerant landscaping
 - insulated fiberglass triple-glazed windows
 - daylighting design

Green Woodlands
Location: Dorchester, NH
Owner: Bob Green
Architect: Stu White, Banwell Architects
Building Type: Single Family
Size: 2,726 ft² 
Rating: Certified LEED for Homes - Platinum

Project Features:
   - off-grid home
   - TARM wood boiler
   - all wood used came from site (exception: windows, sill plates)
   - composting toilets
   
Parker-Batchelder Residence
Location: Portsmouth, NH
Owners: Cheryl Parker and Marc Batchelder
Builder: Little Green Homes
Building Type: Single-Family
Size: 1,456 ft²
Rating: LEED Platinum

Small, efficient, charming….This is an infill project located on a previously developed site in Portsmouth, NH. A timberframe structure with Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS) for walls, this house is heated with a solar hot water system and a wood stove.

While we concentrate on New Hampshire green building projects, we are willing to consider projects throughout New England and beyond.

Residential Projects

Quaglioroli Residence
Location: Meredith, NH
Builder: Cargill Construction
Building Type: Single-Family
Size: 6,700 ft²
Preliminary Rating: Gold

This project is nearing LEED Certification completion and is slated to be a Gold project. It is heated and cooled with a geothermal system, has minimal and native landscaping, along with many local materials used throughout. 

Bennett Residence
Location: Moultonborough, NH
Owner: Philip Bennett
Architect: Philip Bennett
Building Type: Single-Family
Size: 2238 ft²
Preliminary Rating: Platinum

Architect owned and designed, this home is slated to install one of the first air-to-water air source heat pumps made. The entire house will be sided with live edge black locust vertical boards along with custom insulated window shutters to keep the home warm at night and cool in the summer months. 

Brook Village North
Location: Nashua, NH
Owner: First Equity Associates
Architect: GSD Associates
Building Type: Multi-Family
Size: 72 Units
Preliminary Rating: Silver

A multi-family development that is replacing an existing group of outdated HUD units. The new building will be heated with a super efficient air source heat pump system.

Laconia Area Land Trust
Location: Meredith, NH
Owner: Laconia Area Land Trust
Architect: George Hickey
Building Type: Multi-Family
Size: 32 Units
Preliminary Rating: Gold

Affordable housing units with a projected HERS score of 53. This translates into a 47% energy savings over a building built to code.

Swett Residence
Location: Meredith, NH
Architect: CPW Architects
Building Type: Single Family
Size: 3540 ft²
Preliminary Rating: Platinum

Located on the shores of Lake Winnipesauke, this six bedroom home is slated to be rated LEED Platinum. This project has a preliminary HERS Rating of 55 – 45% better than a code built house.