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…
One of SDA’s most recent engineering projects (with partial procurement services) is nearing completion. The ground mounted 500kW array is being built in Swansea, MA for Tim Cabral, an electrical contractor local to the area. Cabral secured financing through a local bank with an agreement in which part of…
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[tabs slidertype=”images”] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/LRTA-Rooftop3.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC02464.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3358.jpg[/imagetab] [/tabs] The Hale Street Bus Maintenance Facility in Lowell, MA requires a lot of energy to keep the city’s buses operational. The Lowell Regional Transit Authority (LRTA), a municipal organization that runs the facility, partnered with Solar Design…
[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…
TIME magazine recently featured the Bullitt Center as an example for environmentally responsible buildings. Solar Design Associates has been working with the architects at Miller Hull to design canopy and façade-mounted PV arrays for the new office building, currently under construction in Seattle’s Central Area. The photovoltaic system…
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[tabs slidertype=”images”] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Kevin-Commissioning.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/School-PV-Rooftop.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_6391.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”489″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Tioga-Roof-Mount-at-Mennen-Rink-for-Web.jpg[/imagetab] [/tabs] New Jersey’s Union County has implemented a renewable energy program that incorporates PV systems on a multitude of public buildings including community centers, schools, and libraries. Union County has teamed up with Tioga Energy,…
[tabs slidertype=”images”] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”433″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/National-Grid-Revere-Insights.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”433″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/National-Grid-Revere-2.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”433″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC_0013.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”433″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3091.jpg[/imagetab] [imagetab width=”650″ height=”433″]http://solardesign.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3100.jpg[/imagetab] [/tabs] Solar Design Associates focused on the strategic nature of National Grid’s PV array in Revere from the project’s inception. Because the system is located next to an existing, overloaded substation, PV…
