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…
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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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…
Solar Design Associates was commissioned by a private client to design a custom single-family home with fully integrated, high performance renewable energy systems. Located in northern Maine, the house has the capability to remain off the grid at any time of year in the event of a utility grid…
The Allied Health Building at the North Shore Community College campus in Danvers, MA is the leading example of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ outstanding commitment to energy efficiency and renewable energy. The project is the Commonwealth’s first state-owned zero net energy building. In order to fulfill the zero energy designation,…
