Communities Overview
The work SWA does in communities ranges from developing green guidelines for new residential developments to launching the Whole Building Design Guide, a virtual community for building practitioners. Our sustainable consulting portfolio includes several of the largest and most innovative mixed-use community-development projects throughout the nation. Services include:
- strategic and master planning
- customized green-guidelines development covering local and regional environmental and market conditions
- planning board presentations
- green-building funding incentive analyses
- certification program reviews and implementation recommendations
- SWA has also advised on community-scale renewal energy applications and district Combined Heat & Power (CHP) solutions.
Regardless of the size and scope of our projects, SWA consistently and creatively provides community scale guidance, criteria, and technology from an integrated, high performance perspective.
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