Located in the heart of Harvard Square, and home to such businesses as The Harvard Coop and The Sinclair, 50 Church Street has recently gone solar with the addition of a 66kWac PV system engineered by Solar Design Associates. Commissioned by Trinity Property Management, Solar Design Associates utilized its vast…
On April 22, the AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) announced it’s 2014 Top 10 awards for green projects with exemplary architecture and ecological design. Among the Top 10 is The Bullitt Center in Seattle, WA. The innovative building is not only Net-Zero, but is Net-Positive, generating more energy than is needed…
The new MA Fish & Wildlife headquarters goes Net-Zero with the help of a 290 kW solar PV array designed by Solar Design Associates.
Determining the amount of value a solar (PV) system adds to a residence has never been an easy task. For many years, it was an intangible and implied value. As a whole, the solar industry and homeowners will generally agree that a home equipped with a solar system will be…
May 9 – Solar Design Associates has begun construction on a solar thermal system for the second phase of Saint Polycarp Village in Somerville. Developed by the Somerville Community Corporation (SCC), the village is a mixed-use project that provides green space, street-level retail space, and affordable rental apartments. Prior…
There is an article in this week’s Commercial Real Estate section of the New York Times featuring The Bullitt Center as the building gets its final touches before the official opening on Earth Day (April 22). The article points to some of the features that make this building truly advanced…
The Living Proof video below describes the innovative technology and forward thinking people that made the new Bullitt Center in Seattle a success. SDA worked with Miller Hull’s design team to design and engineer the 244kW PV system, which is one of the building’s most street-visible sustainable features. The Bullitt…
The SDA team commissioned the Bullitt Center PV array last week in Seattle. Complete electrical and mechanical system commissioning is one of the services that SDA offers as PV system engineers for Zero Net Energy buildings. Performing this comprehensive testing at system start-up is important to provide an initial production benchmark for…
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[tabs slidertype=”images”] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Maverick-21.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Maverick-11.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Maverick-3.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Maverick-4.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Maverick-5.jpg[/imagetab] [/tabs] The Maverick Landing mixed-income neighborhood in East Boston is the winner of the 2011 Boston Society of Architects John M. Clancy Award for Socially Responsible Housing. Solar Design Associates collaborated with…
